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Pakistan beat Asian country as Shaheen Afridi takes 6-35 however fail to create semi-finals

Teenage seamer Shaheen Afridi claimed Pakistan's best tourney figures to secure a 94-run persuade Bangla Desh at Lord's. The 19-year-old bagged a career-best 6-35, taking his tournament haul to sixteen in 5 matches, as Bangla Desh faltered to 221 all move into a reply to Pakistan's 315-9.



Afridi's come wasn't the sole star turn of the day when team-mate Imam-ul-Haq (100) became the youngest West Pakistan player to get a tourney hundred, giving birth the foundations for his team's fourth win during a row. The all arounder contributed his seventh score of fifty or additional within the tournament - a tangle that matches Sachin Tendulkar's 2003 record and includes 2 a whole bunch - and finished the tournament with total of 606 runs at a mean of eighty six.57.

Pakistan fell upon Lord's knowing that they had to win by a minimum of 316 runs to overtake New island within the race for the last place in the semi-finals, and though they won the toss, their mission unbelievable quickly looked not possible. Opener Fakhar albizzia (13) didn't hearth and though Babar Azam (96) and Islamist (100) shared a stand of 157, Pakistan's better of the tournament, the run-rate seldom vulnerable six-an-over.


Babar progressed serenely towards 3 figures once being badly born by Mosaddek Hossain at backward purpose on fifty seven - passing Javed Miandad's mark for the foremost runs scored during a tourney by a Pakistani batter - solely to fall lbw to Mohammad Saifuddin's inswinging yorker with four runs still required.

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