For the first time, a team chased the target of 200 plus runs in T20 International against Pakistan.
The year 2024 has been very bad so far for the Pakistani team, in which they have faced consecutive embarrassing defeats. For the Pakistani team, which toured South Africa at the end of the year, the first two matches of the T20 series have not been as per expectations at all. In the first match of this series, where the team had to face defeat due to poor performance of the batsmen, in the second match the bowlers ruined the team’s fortunes. In the second match of the series played at the Centurion ground, the Pakistani team had scored 206 runs, which the South African team achieved in 19.3 overs at the loss of just 3 wickets.
For the first time in T20 International, Pakistan could not defend 200 or more runs.
In the T20 International, Pakistan had to face a defeat which they had not even expected in the second match of the series against South Africa. Before this match against Pakistan, which is considered to be one of the best teams in this format, no team had managed to win by chasing a target of 200 or more, but Africa defeated their arrogance in the second T20 match. I smashed it with victory. Before this match, Pakistan had given a target of 200 or more to the opposition team 8 times in T20 International and had managed to win all of them, but they had to face defeat in the 9th time. Before this match, the record of successfully chasing the target of highest runs in T20 International against Pakistan was in the name of England team, who had achieved the target of 195 runs in the year 2020.
The bowling of Shaheen and Haris Rauf disappointed the most.
Batting for the Pakistani team on the Centurion ground, a brilliant unbeaten inning of 98 runs was seen from the bat of young player Sam Ayub, apart from this, Babar Azam was also successful in playing an inning of 31 runs. In the bowling department, everyone expected better performance from Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf, but while Shaheen gave 37 runs in his 4 overs, Haris gave 57 runs in 4 overs and both the bowlers were in the same match. Didn’t even succeed in getting wickets.
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