PAK are 286/10 (49 overs) | RR 5.72
It’s the 2nd day and 2nd Macth of ICC Men’s Cricket Worldcup2023 India.Babar Azam and Scott Edwards are in the middle alongside Ramiz Raja for the Toss of the Macth 02 between Pakistan and Netherlands. Babar spin the coin and hence loses the Toss. Edward invite Pakistan to bat first at Hyderabad in the ICC CWC23.
Babar leaves out Usama Mir, Abdullah Shafique, Wasim Junior and Agha Salman. While, Edward drops, Wesley Berresi, Sybrand Angelbrecht, Ryan Klein and Shariz Ahmed.
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Fakhar Zaman and Imam ul Haq are down to the middle for opening the innings for Pakistan agaisnt Netherlands. On the other hand, Right-arm Aryan Dutt open the bowling for NED.
The First Power play of Match No. 2 proves a nightmare for Pakistani Top order as they lose 3 early wickets in the powerplay. First, Fakhar followed by Babar and Imam spread chaos in the Btting lineup. Fakhar Zaman is caught and bowled by Van Beek in the 4th over while Babar tries to pull the ball from Ackermann but gets late and departs. In the very next over, Imam hooks high towards deep fine leg fielder where Dutt grabs it easily.
Fakhar has scored 12, whereas babar only succeeded in scoring 5 off 18 and Imam made 15. At the end of the First power play Pakistan are 43/3.
Rizwan-Saud Partnership set a solid platform for the upcoming batters. Saud Shakeel toe-edges the ball that lands into Saqib’s hands. on 28.1 Pakistan are 158 for 4 down. Muhammad Rizwan misses the party after Saud departs so the wicketkeeper batter also departs on 68 too in the 32nd over. He’s bowled by Bas de Leede with his clever batting.
Muhammad Iftikhar also follows Rizwan when he tries to angle the ball down to the 3rd man. The nick goes down to the hands of Edwards. Pakistan are 6 down now after 32. Three quick wickets in the 1st power play and 3 quick wickets now leaves Pakistan in big trouble.
at the end of the 2nd Power play (11-40) Pakistan are 227 for 6. Overall, Pakistan gather 184 at 6.13 for the loss of 3 quick wickets. This is the 3rd time that Pakistan lose 3-wickets in quick succession. Shadab, who looks in good-touch is bowled by Leede on 252. Hassan Ali is also LBW by Leede on his very first ball and Nawaz also gets run out after scoring 39 off 43.
