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Shadab Khan made a big statement on being selected as Player of the Match

Sudev Haldar
2 years ago

Credit goes to Shadab Khan’s stormy innings in Pakistan’s victory against South Africa. Shadab Khan scored a fifty. According to the Duckworth-Lewis rule, Pakistan’s team won by 33 runs and got 2 points. Shadab Khan was adjudged player of the match. He gave a huge response to his performance.

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Shadab Khan said that I have batted like this in PSL but this is a World Cup match, so it is my best innings. The pitch was slightly slower than in Perth. I tried to bowl at the stumps and it worked. I like to bat in this order, but it depends on the situation what the team wants, so I am ready to bat anywhere.

Shadab Khan displayed brilliant batting

Batting first, Pakistan team lost the wickets of Babar Azam and Rizwan early. After this Iftikhar and Shadab Khan performed brilliantly. Iftikhar scored 51 runs in 35 balls. Apart from him, Shadab Khan played an innings of 52 runs in 22 balls. In this way Pakistan scored 185 runs for 9 wickets. Nortje took 4 wickets for South Africa.

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Playing in response, it rained during South Africa’s innings. From here the target of 142 runs in 14 overs was given to South Africa. South African team failed to achieve this score and scored 108 runs for 9 wickets.