Afghanistan V Pakistan A 2nd Unofficial ODI----1st innings report
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 A and Afghanistan are at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium to play the 2nd unofficial ODI of the series of three. The first match was played on May 25 and Pakistan A won it by 5 wickets.
After the 1st innings of the game, it seems that the Pakistanis have used their first victory as a morale booster as they have consigned a mammoth total to the rival team to chase down.
Winning the toss, Pakistan A elected to bat first. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Babar-Azam-c1122 opened the innings with a thumping start.
The Afghani bowlers were looking puppets in the opening pair’s hands as they hit every ball to add runs in their scorecard. The first 15 overs of the innings proved to be much costly to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 as Sharjeel and Babar forged a partnership of 108.
On the second ball of the 16th over, Muhammad Nabi bowled Sharjeel for 64. He played 69 balls and hit 10 fours and 1 six. The wicket celebrations could not stay on Afghanis’ faces for long as the one-down batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Amin-c94597, joined Babar to advance the
innings lavishly.
The second wicket partnership added 64 more runs to the scorecard. The damage to Afghanistan could be high, would Babar not have went run out in the 29th over. Babar scored 63 off 120 balls.
Umar was joined by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usman-Salahuddin-c94700. The duo stayed on the ground for 10 overs and contributed 48 runs. Umar fell in the 39th over after scoring 63 off 94 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six.
Usman was caught in the 41th over for 23. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sohail-Tanvir-c90665 was the 5th Pakistani batsman to be bowled by Dawlat Zardan in the 43th over. He scored 15.
The sixth batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rameez-Raja-c2277 (2) fell for 13 and 22 respectively but he sustained till the end.
With the help of 4 fours and 1 six, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stuart-Clark-c2591 piled up 46 runs not out. However, he went to the pavilion with sad mood as he was just 4 runs short of his fifty.
The distraught Afghani bowlers gave away 18 extra runs. Thus Pakistan totaled 327 for 7 wickets, handing over a huge target to the fragile batting line-up of Afghanistan.
Among the seven Afghani bowler, Zardan bowled 3 players while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samiullah-Shenwari-c2430 took 1 wicket each.
The target is somewhat huge and hard for Afghanistan whose batting department lacks consistency and confidence.
The expert opinion tells that Afghanistan will lose this game as well and Pakistan A is to lead the series.
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