Saturday, November 15, 2014

Afghanistan Crushes Pakistan in Friendly Cricket Match

http://www.tolonews.com/
Afghanistan has crushed Pakistan by 54 runs in a 15-over friendly cricket match between the A teams of the two countries attended by the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad.
Winning the toss and electing to bat first, Afghanistan set a tough target of 155 runs with its only 4 wickets lost while Pakistan could score only 100 with its 9 wickets gone.
The total of 154 by Afghanistan includes some brilliant performance by Afghan batsmen in which Najibullah Zadran contributed 60 runs and Samiullah Shenwari scored 27 runs and both of them were not out.
However none of the batsman from Pakistan side could help their country to at least get close to the target.
Najibullah Zadran of Afghanistan won the man of the match award for his marvelous contribution of 60 runs and was presented a cheque of 100,000 PKR by Pakistan's Premiere.

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