United Arab Emirates T20I Tri-Series1st Match · T20I
Pakistan beat Afghanistan by 39 runs in the 1st Match - Match Info
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, . Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat.
Match details
- Match
- 1st Match, T20I · United Arab Emirates T20I Tri-Series 2025
- Date
- (Fri 29 Aug, 14:00 PKT)
- Venue
- Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Toss
- Pakistan, chose to bat
- Result
- Pakistan won by 39 runs
- Player of the match
- Agha Salman
Head to head (T20I)
Played 9 · PAK won 6 · AFG won 3
Last 5 meetings
- 2nd Semi-Final · ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier Final · PAK 115 v AFG 116/6Afghanistan won by 4 wickets (with 13 balls remaining)
- 3rd T20I · Afghanistan v Pakistan · PAK 182/7 v AFG 116Pakistan won by 66 runs
- 1st T20I · Afghanistan v Pakistan · PAK 92/9 v AFG 98/4Afghanistan won by 6 wickets (with 13 balls remaining)
- 10th Match, Super Four · Asia Cup · AFG 129/6 v PAK 131/9Pakistan won by 1 wicket (with 4 balls remaining)
- 24th Match, Group 2 · ICC Men's T20 World Cup · AFG 147/6 v PAK 148/5Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
Recent results (T20I)
- W vs ZIM · ZIM 127 v AFG 128/7Afghanistan won by 3 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)
- L vs ZIM · AFG 144/6 v ZIM 145/6Zimbabwe won by 4 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
- L vs SA · AFG 56 v SA 60/1South Africa won by 9 wickets (with 67 balls remaining)
- W vs BAN · AFG 115/5 v BAN 105Afghanistan won by 8 runs (DLS method)
- W vs AUS · AFG 148/6 v AUS 127Afghanistan won by 21 runs
Top players in this fixture
PAK v AFG T20Is, among players who have played for either side in the last 18 months.
| Most runs | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Nabi AFG | 5 | 105 | 38 | 35.00 | 115.38 |
| Najibullah Zadran AFG | 5 | 87 | 38 | 29.00 | 101.16 |
| Shadab Khan PAK | 4 | 76 | 36 | 25.33 | 122.58 |
| Saim Ayub PAK | 2 | 66 | 49 | 33.00 | 120.00 |
| Gulbadin Naib AFG | 4 | 64 | 35 | 32.00 | 116.36 |
| Most wickets | M | Wkts | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fareed Ahmad AFG | 3 | 7 | 8.22 |
| Rashid Khan AFG | 4 | 6 | 6.06 |
| Fazalhaq Farooqi AFG | 3 | 6 | 6.09 |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman AFG | 4 | 5 | 3.94 |
| Shadab Khan PAK | 4 | 5 | 5.13 |
T20Is at Sharjah Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 35
- Average 1st-innings score
- 156
- Won batting first
- 20
- Won chasing
- 15
- Highest total
- 215/6 by Afghanistan ()