SHARJAH: Pakistan’s young right-handed batter Abdullah Shafique had a sigh of relief as he broke the unwanted streak of ducks in T20Is.
Abdullah, who became the first player to bag four consecutive ducks in T20Is on Sunday, finally scored his first runs after four successive failures.
The right-handed batter pushed a tossed-up delivery by Mohammad Nabi to wide long-on to score a much-needed run and avoided another duck.
Notably, the right-handed batter had bagged the worst record in his brief five-match T20I career as he went out for a duck in four successive matches.
Abdullah, who scored 41 not out on his T20I debut against Zimbabwe, was yet to score a run since then as he bagged two ducks each against New Zealand and Afghanistan.
The young batting prodigy, however, came out roaring in the third and final T20I of the ongoing series as he scored a brisk 13-ball 23 before Rashid Khan castled him in the eighth over. He smashed a boundary and two sixes amid his brief knock.
It is pertinent to mention that Afghanistan held their nerves calm to edge Pakistan in the second T20I by seven wickets and wrapped up the series victory with a game to spare.
The ongoing T20I series between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the first-ever bilateral series between the two cricketing nations as they only faced each other in ICC events and Asia Cups before.
