Before the Champions Trophy, Pakistani batsman created havoc, hit 11 sixes and fours, has already 'wounded' India.
The matches of the Champions Trophy will start on February 19. The Indian team will play all its matches in Dubai, which will start from February 20. About a month ago, two Pakistani players have wreaked havoc in Dubai. These players are Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Aamir. Although Aamir has retired, Fakhar is a part of the Pakistani team in the Champions Trophy. He is the same batsman who hurt India by scoring a century in the Champions Trophy final in 2017. Now he has done stormy batting in ILT20 before the Champions Trophy and has scored 71 runs in just 39 balls. The biggest thing is that Fakhar has played this innings on the ground where India and Pakistan are to clash. Let us tell you that in this match, the team of Desert Vipers defeated the Sharjah Warriors badly.
Deadly Bowling by Aamir
The 15th match of ILT20 was played between Desert Vipers and Sharjah Warriors on Wednesday, 22 January. During this, Vipers won the toss and decided to field first. The deadly bowling of Mohammad Aamir, who played for Vipers, broke the back of Sharjah Warriors' batting lineup. He took the wickets of 3 top-order batsmen in the beginning. David Payne and Hasranga took one wicket each. Due to this, half of Sharjah's team returned to the pavilion at just 30 runs.
Two wickets in the first over for Mohammad Amir as Desert Vipers dominate the powerplay against Sharjah Warriorz!
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They could not recover from this 'wound' of Aamir in the entire match and collapsed within 100 runs. With the help of Jason Roy's innings of 30 runs in 34 balls, they somehow managed to score 91 runs in 19.1 overs. Aamir took 4 wickets for 24 runs in 3.1 overs. On the other hand, Sam Curran took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs and Wanindu Hasaranga took 3 wickets for 10 runs in 4 overs.
After getting all out for 91, the morale of the Desert Vipers team increased. Therefore, the openers who came to chase started batting aggressively as soon as they came. No bowler of the Sharjah team could do anything in front of Fakhar Zaman and Alex Hales. Hales played a slow innings and scored 23 runs in 21 balls but Fakhar scored 71 runs in just 39 balls at a strike rate of 182. During this, he hit 7 fours and 4 sixes. In this way, without losing any wicket, Desert Vipers won the match without any loss with 60 balls remaining.
Aamir was chosen as the Player of the Match for his lethal bowling. Let us tell you that the Desert Vipers team has won 5 out of 6 matches in the tournament and is at the top of the points table with 10 points. On the other hand, the Sharjah team is in the fifth position with 2 wins out of 5.