Pakistan swept the ODI series against Afghanistan

 Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by 59 runs in the third and final ODI of the series to claim a clean sweep victory in the series.

Chasing Pakistan's target of 269 runs in the match played in Colombo, the entire Afghanistan team collapsed for 209 runs in the 49th over. Thus, Pakistan continued the winning journey that started from Hambantota in Colombo. Pakistan became the number one cricket team in the world.

Congratulations to Zaka Ashraf's Pakistan team for securing the first position in the world rankings.

From Afghanistan, Mujeebur Rahman played 64 runs off 35 balls, during which he hit 5 sixes and as many fours, unfortunately he was hit by Shaheen Afridi's ball. From Afghanistan, Shahidullah scored 37, Riaz Hasan 34, Rashid Khan 16, Heshmatullah Shahidi 13, Rahmanullah Garbaz 5, Mohammad Nabi 3 while Ibrahim Zadran and Gulbuddin Naib were out without scoring any runs. Shadab Khan of Green Shirts sent 3 players to the pavilion while Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Muhammad Nawaz took 2 wickets each, one player was dismissed by Agha Salman. Earlier, Pakistan scored 268 runs for 8 wickets in the allotted 50 overs while batting first, Mohammad Rizwan scored 67 runs and Babar Azam scored 60 runs for the green shirts. Meanwhile, Rizwan hit 1 six and 6 fours while Babar hit 1 six and 4 fours. Among other players, Muhammad Nawaz 30, Fakhar Zaman 27, Imamul Haq 13, Saud Shakeel 9, Shadab Khan 3 and Faheem Ashraf 2 could score. Afghanistan's Gulbuddin Naib and Fareed Ahmed took 2 and 2 wickets while Fazal Haq Farooqui, Mujeebur Rahman and Rashid Khan took 1 and 1 wicket respectively. The green shirts won the toss and decided to bat in the third match. Speaking after the toss in Colombo, captain Babar Azam said that the first 10 overs will be difficult today, they will increase the pressure on the Afghan team by scoring more runs. Babar Azam said that 4 changes have been made in the team for the match. Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashraf, Muhammad Nawaz and Wasim Jr have been included in the squad while Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed and Osama Mir have been rested.

Pakistan Team

Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Salman Agha, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi and Wasim Jr. are playing today's match. 2 changes have been made in the Afghanistan team for the final match of the series. Remember that the Green Shirts have already won the series by winning the first 2 matches. After winning the third match today, Pakistan team will come to the first position in ODI ranking.

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