Pakistan beat Canada by 7 wickets in the T20 World Cup.
New York, June 12: Pakistan keeps its hope alive to reach the top eight by winning the crucial battle against Canada in the T20 World Cup in New York on Tuesday night.
Pakistan achieve the low target of 106 in 17.3 overs with 7 wickets in hand. The star of the chase was Mohammad Rizwan. He scored 53 unbeaten runs and took the side home.
Pakistan lost the early wicket of Sam by just 20 runs, but Rizwan, on the other end, developed a partnership with skipper Babar Azam in 63 runs and consolidated the position of the team. Babar played a crucial knock the 33 runs.
Earlier, Canada reached 106 runs with the contribution of opener Aaron Johnson, who played aggressively. He scored 52 runs on 44 balls. Kaleem Sana scored an unbeaten 13 and Shad 10. Besides them, other batsmen did not reach the double figure mark.
Mohammad Aamir was the was declared a player of the match for fine spell of bowling. He took 2 wickets for 13 runs in 4 overs.
Earlier, Babar Azam won the toss and elected to field first against Canada.
Brief Score:
For Canada, Aaron Johnson scored 52 runs on 44 balls, Kaleem Sana 13 of 14 balls, and Saad Been Zafar 10 of 21 balls.
For Pakistan, Mohammad Rizwan scored 52 of 52 balls, Babar Azam 33 runs of 33 balls and Salim Ayub 6 runs in 12 balls.
Canadian bowlers Dillon Heyliger took 2 for 18 runs in 4 overs, Jeremy Gordon took 1 wicket for 17 runs in 3.3 overs, Kaleem Sana spent 21 runs without any wicket.
For Pakistan, the star of the show was Mohammad Aamir, who took 2 wickets for 13 runs in 4 overs, Haris Rauf took 2 for 26 in 4 overs, and Saheen Afridi 1 wikest for 21 runs in 4 overs.
EOM.
