{"id":18094,"date":"2025-09-02T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:04:06","slug":"nabi-spins-afghanistan-to-victory-over-pakistan-in-tri-series-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18094","title":{"rendered":"Nabi spins Afghanistan to victory over Pakistan in tri-series clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Afghanistan&#8217;s veteran spinner Mohammad Nabi reached 100 wickets in Twenty20 internationals as he helped his team beat Pakistan by 18 runs in a tri-series match in Sharjah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan had won the first meeting between the teams in the competition by 31 runs.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Nabi grabbed 2-20 to help restrict Pakistan to 151-9 as they chased 169.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Zadran&#8217;s 45-ball 65 and Sediqullah Atal&#8217;s brisk 64 helped Afghanistan to 169-5 in their 20 overs despite Pakistan paceman Faheem Ashraf&#8217;s career best 4-27.<\/p>\n<p>At the halfway mark of the chase, Pakistan are 75-4 \ud83c\udfcf<\/p>\n<p>95 more runs required for victory in 10 overs \ud83d\udcdd#BackTheBoysInGreen pic.twitter.com\/eS6z5HNa9U<br \/>\n\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) September 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Ashraf&#8217;s previous best of 3-5 was against Scotland at Edinburgh in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, Pakistan briefly looked on course to chase down the target with Fakhar Zaman scoring an 18-ball 25 in his 100th T20I but Nabi dismissed him and Mohammad Haris, for oner, to end all hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Tail-ender Haris Rauf top-scored with 34 not out, hitting four sixes off 16 balls.<\/p>\n<p>.@iFaheemAshraf records his career-best T20I figures \u2013 a fine spell of 4\ufe0f\u20e3-2\ufe0f\u20e37\ufe0f\u20e3 \ud83d\udc4f#BackTheBoysInGreen | #PAKvAFG pic.twitter.com\/fB7TitwtFb<br \/>\n\u2014 Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) September 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Spinner Rashid Khan, until Tuesday the only Afghanistan bowler to take 100 or more T20I wickets, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Noor Ahmad all took two wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Before the T20 international, players observed a minute of silence for the victims of natural disasters in their countries: an earthquake which has killed more than 1,400 in Afghanistan and the deadly floods in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by ICC (@icc)<\/p>\n<p>Two thirds of the way through the three-nation tournament, that also includes hosts United Arab Emirates, Pakistan leads the table with Afghanistan second.<\/p>\n<p>After a rest day on Wednesday, Pakistan face the winless UAE on Thursday. The group stage ends with the hosts taking on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams playithe final on September 7.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s veteran spinner Mohammad Nabi reached 100 wickets in Twenty20 internationals as he helped his team beat Pakistan by 18 runs in a tri-series match in Sharjah on Tuesday. Pakistan had won the first meeting between the teams in the competition by 31 runs. On Tuesday, Nabi grabbed 2-20 to help restrict Pakistan to 151-9 [&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-18094","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\/18094","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=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}