
Pakistan top ODI rankings
Pakistan rose to the top of the ODI rankings with a 59-run win against Afghanistan in the third match in Colombo on Saturday, claiming a 3-0 series whitewash.
Pakistan rose to the top of the ODI rankings with a 59-run win against Afghanistan in the third match in Colombo on Saturday, claiming a 3-0 series whitewash.
No 10 batsman Naseem Shah hit a boundary off the penultimate delivery to give Pakistan a dramatic one-wicket win over a luckless Afghanistan in the second ODI in Hambantota on Thursday.
Fast bowler Haris Rauf led a pace assault on Afghanistan with a career-best five-wicket haul to give Pakistan a thumping 142-run victory in the first ODI in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota.
Pakistan face Afghanistan in a three-match ODI series in Sri Lanka starting on Tuesday, with captain Babar Azam seeing it as good preparation for the Asia Cup and World Cup.
Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by six wickets in the second T20I to take the two-match series 2-0 on Sunday.
Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by seven wickets in Tuesday’s third ODI in Chittagong.
Openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran both scored hundreds as Afghanistan crushed Bangladesh by 142 runs on Saturday.
Opener Ibrahim Zadran struck 41* as Afghanistan beat Bangladesh by 17 runs on DLS method in a rain-shortened first ODI in Chittagong on Wednesday.
Bangladesh crushed Afghanistan by 546 runs to secure the biggest Test victory margin by runs in nearly 90 years.
Afghanistan lost two quick wickets on Friday, trailing Bangladesh by 616 runs at stumps.
Zakir Hasan and Najmul Hossain both hit unbeaten half-centuries to consolidate Bangladesh’s control of the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Dhaka.
Najmul Hossain struck his third Test century as Bangladesh dominated a hapless Afghanistan to score 362-5 on the first day of the one-off Test in Dhaka.
Half-centuries by Sri Lanka openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Pathum Nissanka made short work of Afghanistan in a nine-wicket drubbing on Wednesday.
Afghanistan have named a squad packed with spin bowlers for the three-match ODI series in Sri Lanka next month.
Stand-in captain Shadab Khan produced an all-round performance to guide Pakistan to a consolation 66-run win in the third T20I in Sharjah on Monday.