Quote from: Bluedrem on Today at 04:06:45 AM

Quote from: WatChe on Today at 03:31:11 AM

Afghanistan is a strong T20 side and everyone was expecting a good competition in the final but things went just one sided. Afghanistan bowlers did good work to restrict Pakistan to 141 but when Afghanistan came out to bat there batting collapsed due to Muhammad Nawaz bowling. Nawaz got 5 wickets and gave away just 19 runs in his 4 overs. The whole Afghanistan team got out on 66 runs beacuse none of there batsmen was able to stay on pitch and score runs.

The target of 142 runs for Afghanistan in the T20 was not a big collection at all. They bowled fairly well and restricted Pakistan to a reasonable one run. But the Afghan batsmen could not bat well at all. As a result, they were all out for 66 runs in 15.5 overs. Pakistan bowled brilliantly in every over. No one gave more than five runs per over, and Mohammad Nawaz took an important 5 wickets. Also, Sufiyan Muqeem, Abrar Ahmed took two wickets each.
We all expected the final match to be great because Afghanistan is not a small team in T20 and they had enough capacity to fight with Pakistan, but the match did not gather momentum due to the batting failure of the Afghans.

Both teams had chances to win. When Pakistan was batting under pressure in the beginning, their chances of losing were high, and in the second innings, when Afghanistan started batting, they had to finish the innings without playing a full over due to the rapid fall of wickets. The bowling lines of both teams were undoubtedly good, but looking at the style of play, it can be assumed that Pakistan's batting line-up was a bit strong. Especially after the fall of 5 wickets, they were able to play for a while. Only two batsmen of Afghanistan, Sediqullah Atal and Rashid Khan, both scored double digits. With no contribution from other batsmen, the team had to lose by a big margin.