Visibly shaken Pakistan captain Babar Azam admitted “we are hurt” upcoming his group used to be surprised in an eight-wicket defeat by means of Afghanistan on the Global Cup on Monday which put their semi-finals hopes in danger. Afghanistan accomplished their first-ever one-day victory over Pakistan in 8 makes an attempt as they chased i’m sick a 283-run goal with an over to supplementary. Ibrahim Zadran clash a elegant 113-ball 87 life fellow opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz made a 53-ball 65 to develop a powerful platform, placing on 130 for the primary wicket.
Rahmat Shah‘s unbeaten 84-ball 77 and skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi‘s 48 no longer out sealed victory in opposition to a sloppy Pakistan group.
“We are hurt as a team,” stated Azam whose aspect now have 3 defeats and two wins in 5 fits.
They face an impressive South Africa on the similar Chennai venue on Friday.
“We must feel the disappointment and my message to my team for the remaining matches will be to learn from this defeat,” stated Azam, whose 74 off 95 balls aided by means of opener Abdullah Shafique‘s 58 guided Pakistan to 282-7 upcoming they gained the toss and batted.
“We achieved what we set out to do when we batted but we were not up to the mark in bowling and fielding,” stated Azam whose bowlers conceded 17 limitations within the first 16 overs.
“We failed to put them under pressure but I congratulate Afghanistan for this victory.”
Afghanistan, who performed 4 specialist spinners on Monday, additionally now have two wins in 5 fits.
“Afghanistan’s spinners are of good quality so the plan was to not give them wickets until the 40th over and then charge in the last ten but we fell some 10-15 runs short,” stated Azam.
Noor Ahmad, 18, used to be the select of the Afghanistan spinners with 3-49 on his Global Cup debut life the extra skilled sluggish bowlers, Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Ur Rahman went wicketless.
Regardless of Monday’s trauma defeat, Azam wired Pakistan can nonetheless qualify for the semi-finals.
“From now on we need to play our best cricket in all departments and must overcome our mistakes.”
Azam admitted that the group is affected by the absence on the match of rapid bowler Naseem Shah who used to be dominated out of the Global Cup with a shoulder shock.
“Of course, Naseem is missed badly because he had been part of our scheme but overall our bowling has not clicked,” stated Azam.
“We knew there are no margin for error on these grounds and we failed to execute plans.”
He added: “We have been perfect in training but I think our bowlers over-tried in matches and have leaked runs. We need to focus on positives and adopt a different mind-set.”
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