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Pakistan vs Afghanistan Match Stats

Match 22, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

PAK • 1st inn
282/7

AFG • 1st inn
286/2

BATTER

Rahmanullah Gurbaz
c Usama Mir b Shaheen Afridi

Ibrahim Zadran
c Mohammad Rizwan b Hasan Ali

Rahmat Shah
not out

Hashmatullah Shahidi (C)
not out

Yet To bat

Azmatullah Omarzai

Ikram Alikhil (W)

Mohammad Nabi

Rashid Khan

Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Naveen-ul-Haq

Noor Ahmad

BOWLER

Shaheen Afridi

Hasan Ali

Haris Rauf

Usama Mir

Shadab Khan

Iftikhar Ahmed