{"id":14682,"date":"2025-07-24T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:04:20","slug":"mirza-farhan-star-in-pakistan-win-but-bangladesh-take-t20-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14682","title":{"rendered":"Mirza, Farhan star in Pakistan win but Bangladesh take T20 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Paceman Salman Mirza grabbed three wickets and opener Sahibzada Farhan struck an aggressive fifty in Pakistan&#8217;s consolation 74-run win in the third T20 on Thursday as Bangladesh took the series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Mirza, playing only his third international, demolished Bangladesh&#8217;s top order with figures of 3-19 as the home team was bowled out for 104 in 16.4 overs in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Farhan&#8217;s 41-ball 63 studded with five sixes and six fours got Pakistan off to a strong start and Hasan Nawaz clubbed 33 off 17 balls to help them to 178-7 after they were sent in to bat.<\/p>\n<p>6\ufe0f\u20e33\ufe0f\u20e3 off 4\ufe0f\u20e31\ufe0f\u20e3 balls@RealSahibzada is named player of the match for his fine knock \ud83d\udc4f#BANvPAK | #BackTheBoysInGreen pic.twitter.com\/NoPxSGKvJ9<br \/>\n\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) July 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Mirza struck with the second ball of the innings, dismissing Tanzid Hassan caught behind for nought which triggered a batting collapse. Only Mohammad Saifuddin contributed a score of note as he made an unbeaten 35.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Naim (10) was the only other Bangladesh batsman to reach double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Seamer Faheem Ashraf took 2-13 and Mohammad Nawaz wrapped up the win with the final two wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Having already won their first-ever T20 series against Pakistan with victories in the first two matches, Bangladesh rested five of their main players including spearhead Mustafizur Rahman.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had scored 110 and 125 in the first two matches &#8212; also in Dhaka &#8212; losing by seven wickets and eight runs respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical all-round display \ud83c\udfcf<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan finish the T20I series with a commanding 74-run victory \ud83d\udcab#BANvPAK | #BackTheBoysInGreen pic.twitter.com\/TJxWQSvy73<br \/>\n\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) July 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Farhan, who replaced Fakhar Zaman as one of two changes for Pakistan, put on 82 for the opening stand with Saim Ayub (21).<\/p>\n<p>Farhan fell in the 12th over to spinner Nasum Ahmed who finished with 2-22 in his four overs. Pace bowler Taskin Ahmed took 3-38.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nawaz chipped in with 27 off 16 balls down the order to help Pakistan add 46 runs in the last five overs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paceman Salman Mirza grabbed three wickets and opener Sahibzada Farhan struck an aggressive fifty in Pakistan&#8217;s consolation 74-run win in the third T20 on Thursday as Bangladesh took the series 2-1. Mirza, playing only his third international, demolished Bangladesh&#8217;s top order with figures of 3-19 as the home team was bowled out for 104 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}