Watch AFG vs PAK 1st T20I Highlights, Pakistan won the first match of Tri series

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PAK vs AFG 1st Match Highlights: Pakistan and Afghanistan are playing a tri-series of T20 International matches hosted by UAE. The first match of the series was played between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday, in which Pakistan won by 39 runs.

Batting first, Pakistan's team scored 182 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, thanks to captain Salman Aga's fifty. In response, Afghanistan's team was reduced to 143 runs in 19.5 overs. Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan played a stormy innings of 39 runs in 16 balls at a strike rate of over 240, but Haris Rauf took four wickets to give his team victory.

Watch AFG vs PAK 1st Match Highlights

Afghanistan vs Pakistan T20I Highlights

Pakistan scored 54 runs in the powerplay: After winning the toss and batting first, Pakistan got off to a great start. They scored 54 runs at the loss of 1 wicket in the powerplay, although their top 3 batsmen Sahibzada Farhan 21 runs, Sam Ayub 14 runs and Fakhar Zaman 20 runs were out.

Then captain Salman Agha played an unbeaten half-century innings of 53 runs in 36 balls and the team scored 182 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Afghanistan, Farid Ahmed took two wickets while 4 bowlers including Rashid-Mujeeb took 1 wicket each.

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Shaheen Afridi took the first wickets: The first wicket of the Afghan team, which came out to chase the target of 183, was taken by Shaheen Afridi on the last ball of the third over by clean bowling Ibrahim Zadran (9). Then Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 38, Sediqullah scored 23 and Darwish scored 21 runs in short innings to take the team closer to the target.

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Rashid Khan played a stormy innings at number 8: After this, the middle order seemed to be faltering. In the lower order, Rashid Khan batted at number 8 and scored 39 runs with the help of 1 four and 5 sixes, but he could not succeed in making his team win. In this way, the entire Afghanistan team was all out for a score of 143 in 19.5 overs.

For Pakistan, Haris Rauf took the maximum four wickets, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Nawaz and Sufiyan Muqeem took two wickets each. The second match of the series will be played between Pakistan and UAE in Sharjah today on 30 August.

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