Asia Cup 2022 Super 4: India’s destiny hangs in stability as Pakistan look to seal ultimate berth with win over Afghanistan

Pakistan and Afghanistan are set to lock horns in a Super 4 match of Asia Cup 2022 on Wednesday, September 7. The Sharjah Cricket Stadium is ready to host the thrilling contest.

The upcoming match is essential for varied causes. If Afghanistan get previous Pakistan, then all 4 groups, additionally involving India and Sri Lanka, can be in a race to qualify for the ultimate.

In case Pakistan come up trumps, then Pakistan and Sri Lanka will qualify for the ultimate, knocking India and Afghanistan out of the competitors.

In that state of affairs, the final two matches within the Super Four between India and Afghanistan, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka can be lifeless rubbers.

Sri Lanka began their Asia Cup marketing campaign after shedding to Afghanistan by eight wickets in Dubai. But having gained three matches in a row, Dasun Shanaka and Co. have given the opposite groups a run for his or her cash.

Head to headOverall

Matches – 2 | Pakistan – 2 | Afghanistan – 0 | N/R 0

At impartial venues

Matches – 2 | Pakistan – 2 | Afghanistan – 0 | N/R 0

Players to be careful forBabar Azam (Pakistan)

It’s not typically that Babar Azam fails in three T20I innings in a row. Quite an uncommon sight, isn’t it? But regardless of his poor run of type, the 27-year-old was the ICC’s top-ranked T20I batter on this planet for fairly a while. The Lahore-born batter is inside touching distance of scoring 8000 T20 runs. With his opening companion Mohammad Rizwan already being in type, Babar can be trying to get amongst the runs.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan)

20-year-old Rahmanullah Gurbaz made his debut in 2019 as a 17-year-old and he hasn’t seemed again since then. He performed a brisk 18-ball knock of 40 in opposition to Sri Lanka in a Group B conflict in Dubai. Thereafter, he failed in opposition to Bangladesh, however made amends within the first Super 4 match in opposition to Sri Lanka the place he scored 84 runs, though his knock went in useless.

Probable XIsPakistan

Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Babar Azam (c), Fakhar Zaman, Khushdil Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah

Afghanistan

Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Samiullah Shinwari, Rashid Khan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi

— ENDS —