19-year-old Pakistani batsman broke a big record of sixes, and scored so many runs against India alone

The Men's Under-19 Asia Cup 2024 is being played in the UAE. In this tournament, Team India is playing its first match against Pakistan. In this match being played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, a Pakistani batsman played a stormy innings. This player scored runs all around the field and rained fours and sixes. This 19-year-old player also broke a big record of sixes. Pakistan, batting first in the match, also put a big score on the board on the strength of this player.

Stormy innings of 19-year-old Pakistani batsman

In this match, 19-year-old Shahzeb Khan played a memorable innings for Pakistan. Opening the innings, Shahzeb Khan remained at the crease till the last overs. He gave a good start to the Pakistan team and scored 100 runs in 107 balls and completed his century. Shahzeb Khan did not stop even after this and crossed the 150-run mark in no time. He scored a total of 159 runs in 147 balls in this match. In which a total of 10 sixes and 5 fours were seen from his bat. During this, his strike rate was more than 100.

Shahzeb Khan broke a big record by hitting 10 sixes in this match. He has now become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in an ODI match for Pakistan in Under-19 cricket. Earlier, no Pakistani player could hit more than 7 sixes in a match. Before Shahzeb Khan, this record was in the name of Kamran Ghulam and Shamil Hussain. Both the players had achieved the feat of hitting 7 sixes each. But now Shahzeb has gone ahead of everyone.

Pakistan put 281 runs on the board

In this match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first. After this, Usman Khan and Shahzeb Khan gave a good start to the team, there was a partnership of 160 runs for the first wicket between the two players. During this, Usman Khan played an innings of 60 runs in 94 balls. On the other hand, Shahzeb Khan remained at the crease, due to which Pakistan scored 281 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 50 overs. Samarth Nagaraj was the most successful bowler from India. He took 3 wickets for 45 runs in 10 overs.