Pakistan’s new T20 captain Sahibzada Farhan has made a historic record in the three-match home T20 series played against Sri Lanka. He has become the first captain in the world to score three consecutive half-centuries in all three matches of a bilateral T20 series. He played brilliant innings of 89 runs in the first match of this series against Sri Lanka, 73 runs in the second match and 76 runs in the third match. On the basis of these three innings, he has made a unique record in his name as a captain. But in the last match, Pakistan team had to face defeat by 8 wickets.
Sahibzada Farhan played half-century innings in the first two matches.
28 year old Sahibzada Farhan, who took over the command of Pakistan team in place of Salman Ali Aga, has shown excellent performance as captain and opener in this series. He made his debut as full-time captain on 9 October in Rawalpindi. In his very first match, he played a stormy innings of 89 runs and gave a spectacular victory to Pakistan. After this, in the second match played on the same ground in Rawalpindi, he batted brilliantly and scored 73 runs in 44 balls and played an important role in taking the team’s score beyond 200.
Farhan showed his strength with the bat even in the last match
Talking about the third and last match, the rest of Pakistan’s batting faltered completely, here also captain Sahibzada Farhan took charge alone. The team had a very bad start in this match, the star of the previous match Maaz Sadaqat could not even open his account and Fakhar Zaman was out after scoring only 12 runs. Apart from this, other players like Hasan Nawaz, Khawaja Nafe, Mohammad Imran and Abdul Samad were also complete flops. Despite wickets falling continuously from one end, Farhan, playing responsibly, played a brilliant inning of 76 runs with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes in 47 balls. Pakistan team managed to score 168 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Sri Lanka achieved the target easily
Sri Lanka easily achieved the target of 169 runs by scoring 172 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 17.1 overs. However, the Sri Lankan team did not have a good start in this run chase. Opener Lahiru Udara was out after scoring only 1 run in this match. After this, there was a partnership of 59 runs in 41 balls between captain Kusal Mendis and Sineth Jayawardene for the second wicket. Jayawardene was out after playing an innings of 38 runs on 26 balls. After this, Kamindu Mendis and Mendis together led the team to victory. Mendis returned unbeaten after playing an inning of 87 runs on 48 balls. Mendis also scored unbeaten 40 runs in 27 balls. Pakistan managed to win this series 2-1.
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