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ICC T20 World Cup: Pakistan out despite victory over Sri Lanka, New Zealand gets semi-final ticket

By Samira Vishwas

Pallekele28 February. On Saturday night at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, the saying ‘We are drowned, we will drown you too’ seemed to be coming true when co-hosts Sri Lanka, already out of the ICC T20 World Cup, shattered Pakistan’s wishes.

In fact, Pakistan achieved a narrow five-run victory over Sri Lanka in the important match of Super 8 Group Two, but it could not achieve the required net run rate to enter the semi-finals. With Pakistan’s exit in this sequence, New Zealand got the ticket for the semi-finals, which was already in second place in the group after unbeaten England (six points) with three points and better net run rate.

With the world record partnership of Farhan and Fakhar, Pakistan had reached a huge score of 212 runs.

There is no doubt that Pakistan, forced to bat first, had made a huge score of 212 runs for eight wickets with the world record partnership of 176 runs for any wicket in T20 World Cup history between openers Sahibzada Farhan (100 runs, 60 balls, five sixes, nine fours) and Fakhar Zaman (84 runs, 42 balls, four sixes, nine fours).

Sri Lankan captain Shanaka and Ratnayake became a hindrance in the path of Pakistan.

In reply, Sri Lanka had scored 101 runs for five wickets in 12 overs and needed 112 runs in the remaining eight overs. Then captain Dasun Shanaka (76 not out, 31 balls, eight sixes, two fours), who came at seventh position, along with Pawan Ratnayake (58 runs, 37 balls, three sixes, four fours) started attacking the Pakistani bowlers and started raining fours and sixes. However, despite their valiant efforts, Sri Lanka could not secure a win, reaching 207 for seven, denying Pakistan the required net run rate to book a semi-final ticket.

Pakistan was out as soon as the 148th run of the Sri Lankan innings was scored in the 16th over.

In fact, after scoring a strong score of 212 runs, Pakistan had to bowl out Sri Lanka within 147 runs to make it to the last four. That means a win of at least 66 runs was necessary for him, only then he would be able to achieve a better net run rate than New Zealand (1.390). At present Shanaka and Ratnayake stood as a hindrance. Shanaka took a single on the fifth ball of Tariq Usman in the 16th over and took the team’s score to 148 and here Pakistan was out of the tournament.

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Now Sri Lanka were eyeing their first win in the Super 8, needing 63 runs to win in the remaining four overs. The Pakistani camp was filled with disappointment after being out of the tournament. In this sequence, Shanaka and Ratnayake continued to attack. However, Ratnayake became the only victim of Shaheen Shah Afridi (1-48) in the 18th over.

There was tremendous excitement in Afridi’s last over.

But there was tremendous excitement in the last over, when the hosts needed 28 runs. Shanaka hit a four on Shaheen’s first ball and then hit three sixes in a row. Now six runs were needed on the last two balls. But not even a single run could be scored on them. Shanaka left the last ball thinking that it would be called wide, which was not called wide by the on-field umpire. From Pakistan side, only Abrar Ahmed (3-23) could make some impact.

Shatakvir Farhan broke Virat Kohli’s world record

Well, Pakistan can take satisfaction from the fact that its opener Farhan succeeded in breaking Indian superstar Virat Kohli’s record of scoring the most runs (319) in a single phase of the T20 World Cup. He scored a total of 383 runs in seven matches at an average of 76.60 and strike rate of 160.25, which included two centuries and as many half-centuries.

If we look at the Pakistani innings, it was the result of the efforts of ‘Player of the Match’ Farhan and Zaman that in the 16th over, Pakistan had scored 176 runs without losing any wicket. But the team lost eight wickets in the last four overs at a gain of 36 runs, otherwise the team’s score could have been much higher. Pacer Dilshan Madushanka (3-33) was the most successful bowler for Sri Lanka and Dasun Shanaka took two wickets.

sunday matches : : Zimbabwe vs South Africa (Super 8 Group 1, New Delhi, 3 PM) India vs West Indies (Super 8 Group 1, Kolkata, 7 PM).

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