TossAfghanistan selected to bat vs Pakistan
Afghanistan gained the toss and selected to bat within the second T20I in opposition to Pakistan in Hambantota on Thursday. Pakistan lead the three-match sequence 1-0 after a crushing 142-run win within the opener on Tuesday.
Afghanistan made two modifications to the XI that performed within the first match with Rahmat Shah and Azmatullah Omarzai, who retired harm as a consequence of a facet pressure within the first ODI, out. Riaz Hassan and Shahidullah changed them. Hassan, who has performed solely three ODIs and has scored a fifty, was coming again into the XI after one and a half years. Left-arm spinner Shahidullah has performed just one ODI and that was in January 2022.
Pakistan are unchanged from the primary match.
Having been bowled out for a mere 59 in chase of 202, Afghanistan must step up their batting to remain related within the sequence.
Afghanistan: 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Riaz Hassan, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), , 5 Ikram Alikhil, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Shahidullah, 9 Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 10 Fazalhaq Farooqi, 11 Abdul Rahman
Pakistan: 1 Imam-ul-Haq, 2 Fakhar Zaman, 3 Babar Azam (capt), 4 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 5 Iftikhar Ahmed, 6 Agha Salman, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Usama Mir, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 10 Naseem Shah, 11 Haris Rauf
