Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah smashed Afghanistan’s left-arm fast bowler Fazlhaq Farooqui for consecutive sixes in the last over on September 7 to take his team to the final of the Asia Cup in a thrilling encounter. Let’s take a look at five memorable sixes in Pakistan’s cricket history:
Originally published at Pen 18Thursday, September 8, 2022
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
pakistan: Pakistan beat Afghanistan by one wicket to qualify for Asia Cup final, India out of contention
Right-arm pacer Naseem Shah hit two sixes in the final over as Pakistan thrashed Afghanistan by one wicket in an Asia Cup Super 4 match to knock India out of the tournament on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan captured the match firmly till the last over, reducing Pakistan to 118 for nine. But, Naseem had other plans as he smashed Fazlhaq Farooqui for two consecutive sixes and kept both Afghanistan and India out of the reckoning for the final berth.
With two wins in the same number of matches, both Pakistan and Sri Lanka have confirmed their place in the final of the tournament to be held on Sunday.
India and Afghanistan will face off in their final Super 4 match on Thursday, which has become irrelevant.
After suffering another failure to the batsman after he was dismissed lbw by Fazlhaq Farooqui (3/31) on the second ball of the innings, after losing early to captain Babar Azam (0), Pakistan had a tough time during their chase. had time.
To make matters worse for Pakistan, Fakhar Zaman (5) was run out on the first ball of the fourth over by a straight throw from Najibullah Zadran.
Afghanistan got the upper hand when Rashid Khan (2/25) trapped in-form Mohammad Rizwan (20) in front of the wicket with a ball that was about to hit the middle stump, leaving the batsman on his back foot. fell. After pitching just outside the off stump.
On the backfoot after losing three key batsmen, Shadab Khan (36) took the attack on the opposition and broke the chains in the 12th over with Mohammad Nabi hitting a six and a boundary.
Shadab was at his attack best as he slammed Mujeeb over the long-on boundary to turn the equation down.
Farid Ahmed (3/31) brought Afghanistan back into the match by breaking the dangerous 45-run fifth-wicket stand between Iftikhar Ahmed (30) and Shadab.
Ifitkhar pulled a slow short delivery straight into the hands of Ibrahim Zadran as the batsman failed to gain any height.
In the new man, Mohammad Nawaz made his intentions clear and another short delivery from Ahmed drives the wicketkeeper to the third man boundary.
But Shadab looked in ominous form as he swung Rashid over the boundary to ease the pressure.
However, Rashid had the last laugh as he dismissed Shadab at short-third man with a thick delivery to Ajmatullah Omerzai on the next ball.
But there was hardly any respite for Rashid as Asif Ali hit him for another six off the very next ball.
Two wickets in the 18th over bowled by Fazlhaq Farooqui turned the match in Afghanistan’s favour.
He first dismissed Nawaz and then defended Khushdil Shah as Pakistan lost the plot.
Farid Ahmed then cleaned up Haris Rauf on the first ball of the next over, as Pakistan were reduced to 110 for eight.
Farid Ahmed gave another blow to Pakistan by taking the crucial wicket of Asif Ali in the last ball of the 19th over.
With 11 needed in the final over, Naseem Shah showed his batting prowess for back-to-back sixes off Fazlhaq Farooqui to seal the match in Pakistan’s favour.
Earlier, Pakistan bowled brilliantly to restrict Afghanistan to 129 for six.
Afghanistan started on a positive note with Hazratullah Zazai (21) and wicketkeeper Rahmanullah Gurbaz (17) being sent to bat with a 36-run partnership for the first wicket.
After an opening over, Afghanistan made 16 runs in the next over with Gurbaz hitting Mohammad Hasnain for successive sixes.
Zazai equalized his teammate by finding two boundaries in the next over before Haris Rauf clean bowled Gurbaz on the fifth ball of the fourth over.
Despite the wickets falling, Zazai continued his aggressive vein, hitting Hasnain for a boundary before being destroyed in the fifth delivery by the bowler tossed him with a deceptively slow delivery.
Karim Janat (15) and Ibrahim Zadran (35 off 37) then tried to steady the ship as Afghanistan reached 72 for two in 10 overs.
Barely to score, Janat tried to force the pace of the innings but in vain as he was dismissed in the 12th over by Fakhar Zaman while trying an extraordinary slog sweep off Mohammad Nawaz.
Najibullah Zadran (10) started his innings in fine fashion before the spinner had the last laugh, hitting Shadab Khan over deep midwicket.
It got even worse for Afghanistan when Mohammad Nabi disturbed his rhythm for a first-ball duck with Naseem Shah on the next ball.
However, Ibrahim Zadran continued to play his aggressive shot and in the next over, Shadab was hit over the cover fence.
Jadran’s innings was cut short by Rauf (2/26) in the next over when the batsman slammed a delivery behind the stumps to Mohammad Rizwan.
In the last over, Rashid Khan (18 not out) made excellent use of his long handle and smashed Rauf for a six and a boundary to score 10 runs to take Afghanistan close to 130 runs.
icc: ICC T20I Rankings: Rohit Sharma climbs three places to 14th; Suryakumar Yadav drops to fourth spot
India captain Rohit Sharma has moved up three places to 14th among batsmen while Suryakumar Yadav slipped to fourth place among batsmen in the ICC T20 rankings released on Wednesday. Rohit (612 rating points) jumped three places after scoring 72 off 41 balls against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup Super 4 match at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
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However, Suryakumar (775 rating points), apart from his sensational 68 off just 29 balls against Hong Kong, failed to replicate his performances against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the big games.
Star batsman Virat Kohli has gained four places and is in 29th place after scoring 60 runs against Pakistan.
Ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (up eight places to 50th) and young pacer Arshdeep Singh (up 28 places to 62nd) have also made progress.
Hardik Pandya remains at the fifth position in the all-rounder’s list.
Topping the batting charts is Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan (815 rating points), who has displaced his teammate and captain Babar Azam (794 rating points).
Rizwan has scored 192 runs in three matches in the Asia Cup and is the highest run-scorer in the tournament so far.
Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nisanka has moved up one place to eighth after scores of 20, 35 and 52.
The 24-year-old scored 52 off 37 balls to help India beat India in a Super Four match on Wednesday.
Afghanistan batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz also moved up 14 places to 15th after his 84-run knock against Sri Lanka in the Super Four match.
Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood (792 rating points) and Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi (256 rating points) top the bowling and all-rounder charts respectively.
federer: As Serena leaves, Nadal loses, Federer absent, is era over?
Serena Williams, you may have heard, is expected to be her last match at the US Open. Rafael Nadal lost in the fourth round. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer (more about them later) were also not in the tournament. Those four players dominated, and were the main draw in tennis for decades, collecting a total of 86 Grand Slam singles titles, each with at least 20. And so, the quarter-finals began on Tuesday at Flushing Meadows without any members of that quartet. Presently, it makes sense to ask: is this the end of an era?
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Nadal, 36, made a philosophical comment about the subject on Monday after being bounced 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 by American Francis Tiafoe, 24, on Monday.
“Some leave, others come and the world goes on. It’s a natural cycle,” said Nadal, who said his wife is pregnant with their first child and so he’s not sure when he’ll play next.
“It’s always been the same. It’s been there for many years; others are coming and we’re leaving. It’s logical.”
People are wondering – and, perhaps, worrying – when someone new will emerge to take over in both women’s tennis and men’s tennis.
This US Open, whether merely symbolic or in fact, offers a glimpse into the current and future states of the sport. Of the 16 singles quarter-finalists in the women’s and men’s categories, 15 have never won such a major championship anywhere (the exception is Poland’s 21-year-old Inga Swietek, who is No. 1 on the WTA Tour and holds two French Open titles). .
According to the US Tennis Association, it is the first time in the professional era, which dates back to 1968, that its Grand Slam event has fewer than at least two previous major title winners at this level.
Looking at the men’s section, none of the four quarterfinalists who played on Wednesday – No. 22 seed Tiafo vs. No. 9 Andrey Rublev, and No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz vs No. 11 Jannik Sinner – haven’t even reached a major semi-final. , Rublev, who will turn 25 next month, is the oldest in the herd.
“It’s good,” said Tiafo, “to see a new era.”
And consider: It’s been almost 20 years since there were zero previous Slam winners in the quarterfinals of a Major. That last happened in 2003 at Wimbledon. Who won the trophy? Federer claimed the first of his 20s, breaking the old men’s mark of 14 set by Pete Sampras, and now Nadal’s 22 and Djokovic’s 21 (as well as Williams’ 23, the most for any tennis player in pro). most) has been left behind. Era).
Federer, 41, hasn’t played since Wimbledon in July 2021 and has had multiple operations on his right knee. He is set to return to an event in Switzerland in October, and says he hopes to play at the All England Club in 2023, but not much is known about what he has left.
There’s no reason to think that 35-year-old Djokovic won’t be a Slam contender for some time – when he might land in the country hosting the tournament, that is. He was not vaccinated against COVID-19, so he was kicked out of Australia in January and barred from entering the United States.
Djokovic and Nadal jointly won the first three major titles of this year and have won 15 of the last 17 titles overall. Add in the other member of the so-called Big Three, Federer, and it’s 20 of the last 22. Take it further, and it’s 63 out of 76. The only other men to have more than one in that period are Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, along with three relatives.
Federer’s first win in less than a year came when Sampras won the US Open in what would be his final match.
“Before this generation, we lost another great generation. Obviously, there will be no Rafa or Roger or Serena. We know this. There are always ups and downs. But there were great champions in the past and there will be again.” No. On Tuesday night.
“Great champions go and others come,” Garcia said. “You have to give the young players time to mature and rise to the top of the game. The fans have to be ready for the new generation as well.”
Whether TV executives and tournament ticket-sellers agree, it’s a popular sentiment among current players: Tennis will be fine.
“Unfortunately for all of us,” said Murray, “the game goes on.”
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
india vs china: Generally speaking, we are finding that people are down on China and up on India: Mark Mobius
“The fear of inflation and hence the fear of higher interest rates will continue to haunt the market for the next 6-12 months,” says Mark Mobiuspartner, Mobius Capital Partners
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When you talk to your customers and your investors, are they considering exiting China out of their commitment? Are they ready to buy Indian stocks even at historically high averages or even at times when market valuations are above average?
We must remember that the reciprocal of the price-earnings ratio is almost certainly the inflation rate, so as inflation rises, the PE ratio has to adjust as interest rates rise. But generally, we are seeing that people are over China and over India and it is because many of them are burnt out by their investments in China. In fact, we were in a meeting recently and the first thing the customer said was not to talk to us about China. That’s why a lot of big institutional investors in China are badly burned and that’s why they’re avoiding it and of course there are other countries they want to go to.
As we look into the future, there is the challenge of inflation on the one hand and the fear of a hard landing/recession on the other. What will be the key feature affecting the script of our financial markets for the next 6 to 12 months? Will it be the fear of inflation or the fear of recession?
I think it would be the fear of inflation and hence the fear of higher interest rates. Central banks will continue to raise interest rates and so there is certainly inflation with it, so if inflation continues to be high, they will assume that interest rates will continue to rise and that will be bad for the markets, at least temporarily. It is very important to look at the historical perspective because higher interest rate does not always mean lower equity market, so we have to look at it very carefully, of course the impact on bond markets is very high but on equity markets it is somewhat different.
Also read: What is the biggest risk in the market now?
Equity investing is all about long term planning but I want to understand from Mark Mobius that my friend is that Mark Mobius is not 60 plus, he is 80 plus and he is still going; He is one of the most wonderful investors I have met. You are actively investing, you are actively traveling. what’s going on?
I think it’s curiosity. I like to learn new things. I love traveling to places to see what’s happening in different countries and that’s what really keeps going. The curiosity I have is infinite. I keep getting new ideas, new concepts, new products which interest me. For example, I was at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and I was really fascinated by how archaeologists are now reconstructing how statues in the past really were because you go to a museum and you see marble. Look at these pieces of sculptures and you forget that these sculptures were originally painted. Now archaeologists are starting to rebuild it, so that’s something that’s very interesting to me.
So if the Mark Mobius of 2022 met the Mark Mobius of 1985, what would you tell him?
I’d tell Mark Mobius to keep doing the things you love, don’t do things that don’t interest you or that you don’t like; Avoid hard work, be happy about the things you are learning and keep learning. That’s the key.
Deepak Chahar: Avesh Khan out of remainder of Asia Cup, Deepak Chahar drafted in
Fast bowler Avesh Khan has been ruled out of the Rest of Asia Cup due to fever-related illness, a senior BCCI official confirmed on Tuesday.
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Seamer Deepak Chahar, who was stand by for the tournament, has been included in the squad.
“Avesh has fever and also has sinus-related problems which have worsened after the illness. It will not be possible for him to participate further in the tournament. Deepak Chahar is already there and will be included in the main squad.” A senior BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
Avesh has been in poor form since the West Indies tour and the Indian team management’s concerns have increased after the Hong Kong batsmen scored more than 50 runs.
He was ruled out of the Pakistan game due to fever but coach Rahul Dravid expected him to be fit for the rest of the game.
With Avesh’s sinusitis problem coming to the fore, the medical team had no option but to get him out.
However in Chahar, India have a very powerful swing bowler who has a knack for taking wickets in the powerplay overs.
He recently made a comeback during the tour of Zimbabwe where he played two 50-over matches.
Since the Asia Cup squad was announced before the Zimbabwe tour, the selectors could not pick him in the primary squad as his match fitness was not proven by then.
“In any case, Deepak’s return was a matter of time as he was further down the pecking order than Avesh before the injury. Yes, it is an unfortunate circumstance that our fast bowler is out and we hope Avesh is out of the Australia series. Will fit first.” The source said.
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