The first innings has ended in the first match of the Asia Cup being played between Pakistan and Nepal. Electing to bat first after winning the toss, the Pakistan team scored 342 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in this match. The bowlers of Nepal team took important wickets of both the openers of Pakistan team in the first 6 overs against Pakistan team. Pakistan’s innings faltered after the fall of two quick wickets. Meanwhile, Mohammad Rizwan, who came to play on the field, made a brilliant partnership of 88 runs with Babar Azam to reach the team’s score of 100 runs. However, Rizwan was run out during 24 overs.
After the dismissal of Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Ali came out to bat at number five and got out after scoring only five runs. At that time Pakistan’s score was 124 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 28 overs. In such a situation, Iftikhar Ahmed, who came out to bat at number six, played well with Babar Azam and while batting stormy, took Pakistan’s score beyond 340 runs. Both players made a tremendous partnership of 214 runs for the fifth wicket. Babar played an excellent inning of 151 runs in 131 balls in this match, As well as Iftikhar Ahmed also scored century and played unbeaten 109 runs.
Apart from playing a brilliant 151 in this match, Babar also broke Virat Kohli’s big record. Actually, Babar scored the 19th century of his ODI career along with scoring a century in this match. Babar beat Virat and Hashim Amla to hold the record of scoring 19 ODI centuries in the fewest innings. Babar scored his 19th century in his 102nd ODI innings. While Amla played 104 innings for this. And King Kohli played 124 innings for 19 centuries.
