{"id":99341,"date":"2026-01-31T18:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=99341"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:15:32","slug":"pakistan-sets-199-run-target-against-australia-in-2nd-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-sets-199-run-target-against-australia-in-2nd-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan sets 199-run target against Australia in 2nd T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In the second T20 match played at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babar-azam-home-international-milestone-achieved-at-gaddafi-stadium\/\">Gaddafi Stadium<\/a> in Lahore, Pakistan scored 198 runs against Australia for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, setting the visiting team a target of 199 runs to win. The decision to bat first after winning the toss proved to be the right one for the Pakistani team overall.<\/p>\n<p>Although Pakistan&#8217;s innings did not start very strongly and opener Sahibzada Farhan was dismissed early after scoring 5 runs, Saim Ayub played a short but aggressive innings and scored 23 runs off 11 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Salman Agha showed responsible and attractive batting and scored 76 runs off 40 balls, which included 8 fours and 4 sixes. His innings provided the basis for a big score for Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam could only score 2 runs in this match, while wicketkeeper-batter Usman Khan played a crucial innings of 52 runs off 35 balls to take the cross-score forward.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of the official kit of the Pakistan team for the T20 World Cup was canceled<\/p>\n<p>In the last overs, Shadab Khan played an unbeaten innings of 29 runs, while Mohammad Nawaz improved the run rate further by scoring 9 runs off just 3 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Zampa was the most efficient bowler for Australia, while various bowlers took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan added 59 runs in the last five overs while batting at a fast pace, now it remains to be seen whether the Australian batting lineup can overcome this difficult target or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In the second T20 match played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan scored 198 runs against Australia for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, setting the visiting team a target of 199 runs to win. The decision to bat first after winning the toss proved to be the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":99342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[4774,6888,172,31381],"class_list":["post-99341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-gaddafi-stadium","tag-saim-ayub","tag-australia","tag-sahibzada-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99341","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=99341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99343,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99341\/revisions\/99343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}