USA is playing great cricket as host. Bangladesh lost the series before the start of the World Cup. They also started the tournament chasing a massive total of 195 runs in a 7-wicket win over Canada.
This time the team maintained the consistency of performance in the match against Pakistan. Pakistan lost the toss and lost 3 wickets for just 26 runs at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas.
From there, however, Babar Azam and Shadab Khan turned around with the bat of the Unpredictables. Babar 44 off 43 balls and Shadab played 40 runs with 1 four and 3 sixes in 25 balls.
However, when Shadab and Babar returned in the same over, Pakistan lost 5 wickets for 98 runs. Then Pakistan scored 159 runs for 7 wickets for 23 runs with 14 balls and 2 sixes from Iftikhar Ahmed’s 14-ball 18 and Shaheen Shah Afridi’s 16-ball 16.
Nastus Kenzige of USA took 3 wickets for 30 runs and Sourav Netravakar took 2 wickets for 18 runs.
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