After the incredible victory in the first match, Pakistan on Thursday also won the second match of the one-day international (ODI) series against Afghanistan by one wicket in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan’s opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz 151\u2019s helped Afghanistan set a 301-run target against Pakistan in the second match.<\/p>\n
Gurbaz was on song in the second match where Afghanistan bounced back from a humiliating 142-run defeat in a three-match series opener to end their innings with 300-5.<\/p>\n
After deciding to bat first, Afghanistan’s opening pair of Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran scored 227 runs together. It was Afghanistan’s second-highest ODI partnership.<\/p>\n
Toss<\/strong><\/p>\n Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bat first in the second ODI of the three-match series against Pakistan in Hambantota on Thursday.<\/p>\n Rahmat Shah and Azmatullah Omarzai, who retired hurt in the first ODI, have been replaced by Riaz Hassan and Shahid Kamal for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n Pakistan are unchanged for the contest.<\/p>\n Pakistan lead the series 1-0 after winning the first ODI on Tuesday by a massive margin of 142 runs, courtesy a five-wicket haul by pacer Haris Rauf.<\/p>\n Chasing a target of 202 runs, Afghanistan were dismissed for only 59 runs, their second-lowest score in ODIs, in 19.2 overs.<\/p>\n This was the first five-wicket haul for Haris Rauf in Pakistan colours, who claimed 5-18 in 6.2 overs.<\/p>\n The third and final match of the series will be played in Colombo on August 26.<\/p>\n Playing XI<\/strong><\/p>\n Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), Ikram Alikhil, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Abdul Rahman, Shahid Kamal, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.<\/p>\n Pakistan: Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Salman Ali Agha, Shadab Khan, Usama Mir, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the incredible victory in the first match, Pakistan on Thursday also won the second match of the one-day international (ODI) series against Afghanistan by one wicket in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Afghanistan’s opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz 151\u2019s helped Afghanistan set a 301-run target against Pakistan in the second match. Gurbaz was on song in the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[389,694,6736,138,364],"class_list":["post-18854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-afghanistan","tag-babar-azam","tag-naseem-shah","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18854","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}