Umarzai hit a half-century in 20 balls, fours and sixes rained; Afghanistan targets 189 in the first match of Asia Cup

Afghanistan has scored 188 runs in the first match of Asia Cup 2025. Opener Sendikullah Atal took the score of the unbeaten 73 -run innings to reach the score of 180 despite a poor start. Apart from him, Ajmatullah Umarzai also shone, who played a stormy innings of 53 runs in just 21 balls. Hong Kong has got a target of 189 runs to win his first match in the Asia Cup.

Afghanistan Sambhala after a poor start

The Afghanistan team started very poorly, which had lost two valuable wickets by a score of just 26 runs. Sedikullah Atal stayed from one end, who along with Mohammad Nabi did an important partnership of 51 runs. By 95 runs, four batsmen of the Afghan team were dismissed.

Umarzai’s stormy half -century

Afghanistan scored 95 runs in 13 overs, but in the next 7 overs, the team hit 93 runs. A lot of credit for this goes to Ajmatullah Umarajai’s tabling batting. He completed a half -century in 20 balls and scored 53 runs in the innings, scoring 53 runs, in which he hit 2 fours and 5 sixes.

The result of his stormy batting was that the Afghanistan team had hit 69 runs in the last 4 overs. Meanwhile, the Afghan team scored 25 runs in the same over of Atik Iqbal. In the 19th over, Ayush Shukla came to bowl, and sat 24 runs including O3 sixes and a four.

It was also a matter of note that Hong Kong left a total of 5 catches in this match. Had it not been so, she could have stopped Afghanistan on a small score. At the same time, the Afghan team was once again seen fighting against spin bowling. Hong Kong’s fast bowlers proved to be expensive, but none of the spin bowlers gave more than 8 economy runs.

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