Summary

  • Pakistan win by five wickets for third straight victory

  • Pak 148-5 (19 overs): Babar 51 (47), Fakhar 30 (25), Asif 25 (7); Rashid 2-26

  • Afg 147-6 (20 overs): Nabi 35 (32), Gulbadin 35 (25); Imad 2-25

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Callum Matthews

  1. Afg 51-4

    A tidy first over from Shadab Khan concedes just two as Afghanistan play rather sensibly.

  2. Afg 49-4

    Shot! Najib crunches the last ball of the over past point for four more.

    We're dealing in boundaries and wickets at the moment. It's completely bonkers but completely brilliant.

  3. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    Do you think these guys need an invitation to have a free hit?

  4. Afg 44-4

    Hasan Ali oversteps and gifts a free hit.

    Expecting a six - but he delivers a perfect yorker and it's a dot ball. Disappointing!

  5. Afg 43-4

    Karim Janat helps himself to four more down to fine leg as Hasan Ali strays onto his pads.

  6. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    This is high-octane. Afghanistan need a calm head out there. It is going in a hurry this game.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Rahmanullah c Babar b Hasan 10 (Afg 39-4)

    Afghanistan's approach of 'Everything Must Go For Six' isn't quite paying off.

    Hasan Ali bangs it in short, Rahmanullah skies it high, high in the air and Babar Azam takes his second catch at mid-on.

    This could be over very quickly if they continue at this rate.

  8. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    That is what you call using the pace.

  9. 6 runs

    Afg 39-3

    This Afghanistan team loves to hit sixes! Rauf drops short and wide outside the off stump and new batter Karim Janat upper-cuts it over point!

    What a great start this has been.

  10. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    I spoke to Pakistan coach Matthew Hayden and he said the one thing you can't really see on the TV is how fast their fast bowlers bowl.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Afghan c & b Rauf 10 (Afg 33-3)

    And he strikes!

    Extra pace from Haris Rauf catches Afghan by surprise and he chips up a simple return catch.

    I'm not sure I've seen a more entertaining 10, in fairness.

  12. Haris Rauf is going to have a bowl.

  13. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    This is why I was looking forward to this game. It is so unpredictable.

  14. Afg 30-2

    Four more! Afghanistan counter-attacking nicely here and that over was absolute chaos.

  15. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    That's why he didn't want the single. He wanted to hoof the next ball for six.

  16. 6 runs

    Afg 26-2

    Oh this is great viewing.

    Afghan smashes the next ball into the stands for another big six and then strangely bumps his batting partner on the helmet - in a friendly way, but I think Rahmanullah wouldn't have minded a standard fist bump, to be honest.

  17. Afg 20-2

    Carnage! Confusion between the batters sees both of them almost colliding in the middle, but bowler Imad can't collect the throw cleanly to complete what would've been a simple run out.

  18. Stuart Law
    Former Australia batter & West Indies coach on BBC Test Match Special

    That has gone miles in the air. I reckon it has gone above the line of the lights.

  19. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is a massive blow!

  20. 6 runs

    Afg 19-2

    That is huge!

    Rahmanullah gets down on one knee and dispatches Imad far back into the stands!