Pakistan vs Afghanistan Final T20I Highlights: PAK beat AFG by 75 runs to win Tri-series in Sharjah

Earlier Afghanistan Skipper Rashid Khan, with his three wickets through the middle overs, broke the back of Pakistan’s batting line-up, restricting them to 141/8 from 20 overs. Both sides have played each other once in the league stage once with both sharing the honours.

Though Pakistan drew the first blood when they defeated Afghanistan in their first meeting, the latter increasingly got better and better as the tournament went on, and in their second meeting, Afghanistan completely dominated the proceedings both with the bat and ball.

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However, like the final, a lot of the results in this tournament or at this venue have been dictated by toss, as the team batting first has had a significant advantage over the team batting second, as the pitch kept crumbling through the evening, and batting got harder, especially against the bowlers who have mastered the slower ones.

Teams:

Afghanistan (Playing XI): Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Karim Janat, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan(c), Mohammad Nabi, AM Ghazanfar, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Pakistan (Playing XI): Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Fakhar Zaman, Salman Agha(c), Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Haris(w), Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem, Abrar Ahmed

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