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Pakistan cricket team edge nearer to WC qualification
Pakistan cricket team joined Afghanistan in third place with 100 factors on the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup Tremendous League leaderboard with 16 run victory over the Netherlands within the first ODI on Tuesday. A pair extra wins this week in Rotterdam will carry the Pakistan cricket team to 120 factors and can guarantee them of a spot in the subsequent 12 months’s occasion correct, no matter how their remaining two sequence towards New Zealand and Afghanistan pan out.
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Opener Fakhar Zaman scored his seventh ODI century in his 60th look, first in 10 matches, to carry Pakistan to an imposing 314 for six after a gradual and cautious begin that noticed them attain 100 for one in 23 overs.
Quick bowlers Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah and Mohammad Wasim Junior then shared seven wickets between them to limit the hosts for 298-8, regardless of spectacular half-centuries from Vikramjit Singh, Tom Cooper and Scott Edwards.
Singh’s 98-ball 65 included 5 fours, whereas Cooper struck six fours and two sixes in a 54-ball 65 as the 2 batters added 97 runs for the fourth wicket. Singh was fortunate to be dropped thrice, together with on the very first ball of the Netherlands’ innings as Pakistan’s fielders missed a variety of run-out alternatives by failing to hit the stumps.
Edwards confirmed resistance in direction of the latter a part of the Netherlands’ chase, remaining unbeaten on 71 off 60 balls together with six fours and one six together with his combating effort not sufficient to haul the house aspect over the road.
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Fakhar confirmed flashes of his brilliance, expertise and abilities with the willow throughout a run-a-ball 109 that included 12 scorching fours however just one six. He added 168 runs for the second wicket in an entertaining and thrilling second wicket partnership with captain Babar Azam, who was elegant and trendy, as ever, whereas scoring an 85-ball 74 with six fours and a six.
Following the early departure of Imam-ul-Haq (4), Fakhar and Babar consolidated the innings with watchful batting, earlier than unleashing their large ranging photographs within the second half of the innings because the inexperienced Netherlands bowlers ran for canopy.
Whereas the Pakistan cricket team scored 214 runs within the final 30 overs, together with 99 runs within the final 10 overs, solely Bas de Leede was capable of maintain the Pakistan cricket team batters in examine. He picked up two wickets for 42 runs and although Logan van Beek additionally scooped two wickets, he went for 89 runs. Vivian Kingma and Tim Pringle additionally went for over 60 runs every.
Other than Fakhar and Babar, Shadab Khan joined run-feast when he scored a speedy 28-ball 48 not out with 4 fours and two sixes. Debutant Salman Ali Agha returned not out on 27 as he added 48 runs for the unbroken seventh wicket in 25 balls with Shadab. Khushdil Shah chipped in with an 18-ball 21.
The second match of the sequence might be performed on Thursday, whereas the ultimate recreation of the tour might be on Sunday.
- Pakistan Cricket team 314-6, 50 overs (Fakhar Zaman 109, Babar Azam 74, Shadab Khan 48 not out, Salman Ali Agha 25 not out, Khushdil Shah 21; Bas de Leeds 2-42, Logan van Beek 2-89)
- The Netherlands 298-8 (Scott Edwards 71 not out, Vikramjit Singh 65, Tom Cooper 65; Naseem Shah 3-51, Haris Rauf 3-67)
- Participant of the match: Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan Cricket Team)
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