Pakistan leads the Pakistan vs Netherlands ODI series by 2-0

The Pakistan cricket team has been doing quite well on the field with Babar Azam taking lead and leading by example. Pakistan leads Pakistan vs Netherlands ODI series by 2-0. After winning the ODI series, they have ranked 4th for the ODIs. In the first match, Pakistan won by 16 runs whereas in the 2^nd ODI they won by seven wickets.

Squad

Pakistan

Babar Azam
Muhammad Rizwan
Abdullah Shafique
Fakhar Zaman
Imam ul Haq
Naseem Shah
Haris Rauf
Muhammad Nawaz
Khushdil Shah
Muhammad Waseem
Shahnawaz Dhani
Zahid Mehmood

Netherland

Scott Edwards
Wesley Barresi
Tom Cooper
Aryan Dutt
Bas de Leede
Vivian Kingma
Arnav Jain
Musa Ahmed
Ryan Klein
Max O’Dowd
Teja Nidamanuru
Tim Pringle
Shariz Ahmad
Logan van Beek
Vikramjit Singh

1^st ODI

Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat first. Pakistan made 314/6 which was a compatible score. Fakhar led by 109 and Babar with 74 runs. De Leede took 2 wickets for 42 runs. The Netherlands made 298/8 where Edwards scored 71*and Cooper scored 65. Naseem Shah took 3 wickets for 51 runs.

Babar Azam surpassed Hashim Amla breaking his ODI record by making 4,516 runs. Hashim Amla had scored 4,473 runs after 88 ODIs. He is also leading the ODIs Batter ranking with 91 points dethroning Virat Kohli. He has 891 rating points, with Imam ul Haq on number 2 with 800 rating points.

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2^nd ODI

Netherland won the toss and chose to bat. They were under pressure straight from the start and couldn’t stand in front of the young pacers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah who reduced them to just 8 runs with 3 wickets just in four overs. De Leede scored 89, and Cooper scored 66 from Netherland. Rauf took 3 wickets for 16 runs and Nawaz took 3 wickets for 42 runs.

From Pakistan’s side, Rizwan scored 69, Babar 57, and Salman 50. Kingman from Netherland took 2 wickets for 32 runs. Pakistan won by seven wickets.

This is a good addition to Pakistan’s ranking after winning the series by 2-0 against the Netherlands.

Shaheen Shah Afridi is injured so he will rest. There are chances that he might not be able to play Asia Cup which is scheduled on 28^th August.

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