Pakistan Vs Afghanistan

Pakistan eye a hat-trick of wins, but in-form Afghanistan stand in their way

Afghanistan, with their amazing net run rate, will replace Pakistan at the top of Group 2 with a win here in Dubai ..

Match will begin at 7:00 PM (Pakistan Time).

Big Picture: 

The rich woven artwork of authentic association that tangles Pakistan and Afghanistan is difficult to do equity to in a game review. As the sub-head recommends, there truly is an undeniably more huge higher perspective to any Afghanistan-Pakistan challenge, particularly at a World Cup. Pakistan's help to Afghanistan in the beginning phases of their improvement had its influence in aiding a far-fetched cricketing objective ascent to Full Member in twofold speedy time, but Afghanistan-Pakistan relations have gone south since. 

Pakistan Vs Afghanistan

It is the one thing that has remained reliably stable in the country in the beyond twenty years. Notwithstanding homegrown difficulties, their men's cricket crew has figured out how to guarantee its advancement isn't hindered. New ability holds approaching to the degree that Afghanistan's quality at significant ICC occasions, similar to this one, is practically starting to be underestimated. 

A conflict against Pakistan right now, however, apparently has as profound and complex a subtext as an India-Pakistan round (obviously without the on-field history), yet for all that has isolated these two countries, they stand one next to the other in one angle this competition. Both are unbeaten and both are in the best two of Group 2. Pakistan squashed India, then, at that point, brought down New Zealand while Afghanistan have directed Scotland with a monstrous net run-rate that may wind up being critical later on. 

They have, nonetheless, played just a single T20I against one another - almost eight years prior - and it's a couple of late ODI conflicts that give a significant part of the needle that flavors this challenge up. Pakistan won twice in the last finished, once at the Asia Cup in 2018, and afterward at the ODI World Cup in 2019, the second saw critical group inconvenience. 

Pakistan Vs Afghanistan

A success here for either side would be a monster venture towards the last four. Pakistan's triumph would adequately put them there, with conflicts against Namibia and Scotland impending. An Afghanistan win would see them jump Pakistan, and with that colossal net run-rate lead they've sprung out to potentially just need a success against Namibia to have one foot in their first ICC World Cup knockout round. However, while the two sides have a highlight demonstrate, and two to acquire, the boasting privileges, however, will be as much a driving element.

Team news

Afghanistan are expected to keep the same XI.

Afghanistan 

1 Hazratullah Zazai, 

2 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 

3 Rahmanullah Gurbaz,

4 Najibullah Zadran, 

5 Mohammad Nabi (capt), 

6 Asghar Afghan 

7, Gulbadin Naib, 

8 Karim Jannat, 

9 Rashid Khan, 

10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 

11 Mujeeb Ur Rahman

If Imad Wasim recovers from the blow to the knee ,Pakistani team should be unchanged too.

Pakistan: 

1 Babar Azam (capt), 

2 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 

3 Fakhar Zaman, 

4 Mohammad Hafeez, 

5 Shoaib Malik, 

6 Asif Ali, 7 Shadab Khan, 

8 Imad Wasim, 

9 Hasan Ali, 

10 Haris Rauf, 

11 Shaheen Shah Afridi