{"id":101373,"date":"2026-02-18T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=101373"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:51:19","slug":"pak-vs-nam-pakistan-beat-namibia-to-seal-super-8-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-nam-pakistan-beat-namibia-to-seal-super-8-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs Nam: Pakistan beat Namibia to seal Super 8 spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Pakistan qualified for the Super 8 stage by defeating Namibia by easy runs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-announces-squad-for-icc-t20-world-cup-2026\/\">ICC T20 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing Pakistan&#8217;s target of 200 runs, Namibia&#8217;s batting collaspsed and the entire team was dismissed for 97 runs in the 18th over.<\/p>\n<p>For Namibia, Steenkamp scored 23 and Alexander scored 20 runs. For Pakistan, Shadab Khan took 3 wickets for 19 runs. Usman Tariq took 4 wickets for 16 runs.<\/p>\n<p>With this success, the teams of Pakistan and India from Group A reached the Super 8.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan set 200 runs target against Namibia in the crucial match of the ICC T20 World Cup thanks to Sahibzada Farhan\u2019s brilliant century.<\/p>\n<p>He scored his century off 57 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 10 fours. Sahibzada Farhan and Saim Ayub opened the innings for Pakistan, but Saim Ayub was dismissed for 14 runs on 40 runs.<\/p>\n<p>National team captain Salman Ali Agha also lost his wicket after scoring 38 runs off 23 balls, while Khawaja Nafi scored 5 runs.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Sahibzada Farhan scored his first century in the T20 World Cup while batting brilliantly. He scored his century off 57 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 10 fours.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat against Namibia in the ongoing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-t20-world-cup-anthem-unveiled-ahead-of-2026-tournament\/\">ICC T20 World Cup<\/a> in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-473dfed elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"473dfed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Pakistan has made two key changes for the match: Salman Mirza and Khawaja Nafat are in the batting line-up, while Shaheen Shah Afridi and Abrar Ahmed will remain out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Pakistan qualified for the Super 8 stage by defeating Namibia by easy runs in the ICC T20 World Cup. Chasing Pakistan&#8217;s target of 200 runs, Namibia&#8217;s batting collaspsed and the entire team was dismissed for 97 runs in the 18th over. For Namibia, Steenkamp scored 23 and Alexander scored 20 runs. For Pakistan, Shadab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":101374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35876],"class_list":["post-101373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pak-vs-nam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101377,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101373\/revisions\/101377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}