Sahibzada Farhan’s historical world record
28 year old Kesahibzada Farhan, who took over the command of Pakistan in place of Salman Ali Aga, completely destroyed Sri Lankan bowling as captain and opener in this entire series. Farhan made his debut as a full-time captain on 9 October in Rawalpindi and in the captaincy debut match, he gave a big victory to Pakistan by playing a stormy innings of 89 runs. In the second match on the same ground, he scored 73 runs in 44 balls and took the team’s score beyond 200.
Now in the third and last match, when the rest of the batting faltered, Farhan scored 76 runs in 47 balls with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes. Pakistani batting did not start well in the third match of the series. Last match’s star Maaz Sadaqat could not even open his account and Fakhar Zaman returned to the pavilion after scoring only 12 runs. Hasan Nawaz, Khawaja Nafe, Mohammad Imran and Abdul Samad also flopped. Despite the continuous falling of wickets from one end, Captain Farhan single-handedly maintained the lead and took the scoreboard forward.
Pakistan scored 168 runs
In this match, Pakistan, batting first, scored 168 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. During this, apart from Sahibzada Farhan, Arafat Minhas played a brilliant inning of 34 unbeaten runs in 20 balls. Apart from these two batsmen, no one could touch the 20-run mark.