Sahibzada Farhan hits century: Everything went as per plan… He took Pakistan to Super 8 by scoring a century, the opener said- I played my natural game

New Delhi. On the basis of Sahibzada Farhan’s brilliant century, Pakistan defeated Namibia by 102 runs and made it to the Super 8 of the T20 World Cup. This is Pakistan’s biggest win in terms of runs in the T20 World Cup. After the victory, Farhan said that everything went as per plan. He said that I played my natural game. Thanks to Farhan’s inning of 58 balls studded with 11 fours and four sixes, Pakistan scored a huge score of 199 runs for three wickets. It took only 20 balls for Farhan to reach 50 to 100 runs. He became the second player of Pakistan to score a century in the World Cup. Earlier in 2014, Ahmed Shahzad had scored a century against Bangladesh in Mirpur.

Player of the Match: This was Sahibzada Farhan’s first century in International T20. Farhan said, ‘Doing well in domestic cricket for the last four years has helped me. This is the result of continuous hard work in Pakistan. Initially the pitch was not easy to bat on, but after a few shots I played my natural game. Pakistan dominated with the spin of ‘mystery’ spinner Tariq and leg spinner Shadab and restricted Namibia to just 97 runs in 17.3 overs.

Salman Mirza and Mohammad Nawaz also took one wicket each. In this way, Namibia’s campaign ended with defeat in all four matches. With this victory, Pakistan also ensured its qualification for the next phase of the T20 World Cup which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2028. This is also Pakistan’s biggest win in terms of runs in the T20 World Cup. Earlier, after winning the toss and opting to bat, Pakistan team could score only 47 runs in the powerplay after losing the wicket of Saim Ayub (14 runs). But Farhan added 67 runs with captain Salman Aga (38 runs) while made a partnership of 81 runs with Shadab Khan (36 not out).

Sahibzada Farhan scored a century.

Sahibzada Farhan said, ‘I told Shadab that we have to build a partnership because we had lost two wickets early. Everything happened as per plan. Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus said, turning the ball both ways is a special skill, as he does. I think this is one of those things that we would like to improve. We would like to increase our skills to face such bowling and deal with it with good planning.

Recovering from the crushing defeat against arch-rival India on Sunday, Pakistan strengthened its batting by including Khawaja Nafe in the middle order while dropping out of form Shaheen Shah Afridi.