Pakistan vs Namibia
Sahibzada Farhan overcame cramps to hoist an unbeaten hundred and take Pakistan to 199/3 in opposition to Namibia on the Sinhalese Sports activities Membership in Colombo on Wednesday.
Chasing a win that may verify their qualification for the Tremendous Eight stage, Pakistan gained the toss and elected to bat first.
It wasn’t essentially the most fluent begin for Pakistan, however put 47/1 on the board in powerplay. The previous champions switched gears within the ninth over, scoring 22 runs off leg-spinner Willem Myburgh. Captain Salman Agha started the over by dancing down the observe to hit a six straight down the bottom, earlier than Farhan hit two successive sixes.
There was slightly wobble within the center as Agha and Khawaja Nafay departed in fast succession. Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus put the skids on the scoring fee with some good bowling and despatched again Nafay caught and bowled.
Nevertheless, Farhan continued to press on. He employed the sweep shot to good impact throughout his unimaginable knock below stress. His second fifty got here off simply 20 balls, as Farhan completed at 100 off 58. It was the primary T20I hundred for him and solely the second in males’s T20 World Cup by a Pakistani batter.
