Afghanistan wins by 54 runs againt Pakistan in a friendly match
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By Ahmadshah Ghanizada: The Afghanistan-A national cricket team defeated Pakistan-A cricket team by 54 runs during a 15 over friendly match on Saturday.
Afghanistan team chose to bat first after winning the toss, setting a target of 155 runs from 15 overs.
Afghanistan lost six wickets, with Najibullah Zadran remaining not-out after scoring 60 runs from 32 balls along with Samiullah Shenwari who scored 27 runs from 14 balls.
Other batsmen, Mohammad Shahzad scored 17 runs, Najeeb Tarakai 18 runs, Hashamtullah Shaidi 11 runs and Mohammad Nabi 15 runs.
The Pakistan-A batsmen could not chase the given target and lost their 9 wickets to score 100 runs from 15 overs.
On the bowling side, Mohammad Nabi, Aftab Alam and Gulbadin Naib took two wickets each, while Fareed Ahmad and M Nasim Baras took one wicket each to restrict the Pakistan-A batsmen to 100 runs.
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