The first match of the World Cup was played today between Pakistan and the Netherlands. Pakistan won the match by 3 wickets in the last minute after giving a fight until the last over.
Pakistan will meet the Netherlands after 4 years. Also, this 147 runs is the best innings scored by the Netherlands against Pakistan.
Pakistan will get a target of 148 runs to win the match. Pakistan, who came to chase, got a good start, PP took 61 runs for each wicket.
Until the 11th over, Pakistan easily continued the chase on the right track without even realizing it, they had scored 98 runs for 2 wickets.
It was from the 12th over that the Netherlands started to enter the game, changing the Line & Length used until then to Short and Good Length and completely changing the plan.
The Netherlands was able to change Pakistan’s innings from 98/2 at the end of the 11th over to 117/5 at the end of the 17th over with that bowling plan.
Everything went well and in the 2nd ball of the 19th over, Faheem’s catch was dropped and the match was handed back to Pakistan.
Pakistan managed to score 27 runs in the last 2 overs with 3 balls remaining and this time they won their first 2 bonus points in the World Cup.
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