The third match of the three ODI series is being played between Pakistan and Afghanistan Today in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. In this match, the Pakistan team was seen struggling while batting. Batting first, Pakistan scored 268 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs. Captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan played excellent half-century innings for the Pak team, but apart from these two players, no batsman was seen in color. The result of which was that Pakistan could cross the figure of 250 runs in this match with great difficulty.
Today’s match is very important for both the teams. While on one hand Pakistan team wants to win this match and win the series with a clean sweep, Afghanistan team would like to win back their lost confidence before the Asia Cup by winning the last match of the series. If Afghanistan loses this match, then it will be a big blow for the Afghanistan team before the Asia Cup. Looking at the batting lineup of Afghanistan, this target does not look very difficult. The reason for this is that the Afghanistan team, which got bundled out for 59 runs in the first match, showed a great performance in the second match. In this match, the openers of the Afghanistan team had a tremendous partnership of 227 runs. The team’s opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored a blistering 151 runs hitting 14 fours and 3 sixes, while Ibrahim Zadran scored an inning of 80 runs. Looking at this, it would not be wrong to say that Pakistan team will have to work hard to win this match. At the same time, the Afghan team will also be seen fighting with all their heart in this last match.
At the same time, a moment also came in the middle of this match, when the Pakistani spectators sitting in the stands started teasing the Afghan players by calling them cheater-cheeter. Actually, Pakistani fans were teasing this word to Afghan players for Mankading run out of Shadab Khan in the second match. In the second match of this series, when the Pakistan team needed 11 runs in the last over to win. In such a situation, on the very first ball of the last over, Afghanistan bowler Fazhallak Farooqui had mankading out Shadab Khan playing for 48 runs. After which Pakistan was completely stuck in this match for a moment, but Naseem Shah hit two fours in the last over and put the match in Pakistan team’s bag. After which the players of Pakistani team were also seen very aggressive.
