Pakistan has scored 127 runs while playing first. Despite the poor start, the Pak team managed to reach the respectable score. For Team India, Kuldeep Yadav and Akshar Patel took 5 wickets and took 5 wickets. The batsman Sahibzada Farhan, who scored the most runs for the Pakistan team, scored 40 runs. At the same time, Shaheen Afridi scored 33 runs in a stormy style. Apart from both of them, no Pakistani batsman could reach the figures of 20 runs.

Wicket on the first ball of the match

The India-Pakistan match started with the wicket. Hardik Pandya dismissed Sam Job on the score of ‘0’ on the first official ball of the match. This Asia Cup 2025 for the second consecutive time when Job became a victim of Golden Duck. In the very next over, Jasprit Bumrah played Mohammad Haris on a score of 3 runs. Mohammad Haris and captain Salman Aga, who scored 63 runs against Oman, also flopped.

6 wickets fell on 65 runs, then …

The Pakistan team had lost 6 wickets for 65 runs in 13 overs at one time, but the tail batsmen somehow took the team’s score to 120. At one time it seemed difficult for him to score 100 runs. Faheem Ashraf scored 11 runs and Sufian Mukim scored 10 runs. His small innings helped Pakistan reach a respectable score.

Shaheen Afridi shines

Shaheen Afridi came to bat in the 17th over, at that time the Pak team lost the 7th wicket on the score of 83 runs. The run-rate was about 5, so the score of 120 seemed to be almost impossible for Pakistan. From here, Shaheen Afridi saved the shame of Pakistan team playing a stormy innings of 33 runs in 16 balls. Afridi hit 4 skyscraper sixes in his innings.

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