Abdullah Shafiq turned the primary Pakistani batsman to attain a century on World Cup debut

Nationwide workforce batsman Abdullah Shafiq continued his behavior of constructing nice first impressions by scoring a century in a World Cup match in opposition to Sri Lanka and have become the primary Pakistani batsman to attain a century on World Cup debut.

Abdullah, who was included within the workforce rather than the long-time in-form Fakhar Zaman, seized the chance and performed the position of the person disaster at a troublesome time and scored a victorious innings of 113 runs off 103 balls to guide Pakistan to victory.

Within the match, the wicketkeeper-batsman Muhammad Rizwan additionally maintained his glorious type and performed an unbeaten knock of 131 runs, due to which the Pakistani workforce efficiently chased down the goal of 345 runs, which was the very best by any workforce within the historical past of the World Cup. It’s the largest goal ever achieved by

Talking following the match, Mohammad Rizwan mentioned that originally the way in which Abdullah Shafiq laid the muse of the innings, the form of pictures he performed made it straightforward for us to chase the goal.

Abdullah Shafiq has a practice of constructing the very best impression when he first steps onto the scene, having scored a century on his home Grade 2 debut following which in 2019 on his first-class debut as properly. He did the identical feat in T20 the next 12 months.

He’s solely the second batsman on the earth to attain a century on his first-class and T20 debut, with India’s Shivam Bhambri holding the excellence.

His hidden expertise was first acknowledged by former nationwide workforce supervisor and ex-cricketer Mansoor Rana and proposed to incorporate him within the nationwide workforce.

Mansoor Rana mentioned that I noticed immense expertise on this boy and chosen him within the under-19 workforce, he was technically significantly better than different gamers however the issue was that he was not capable of rating runs early on.

After his century on his T20 debut, the then nationwide workforce head Misbah-ul-Haq included him within the Pakistan workforce for the shortest format of the sport, however he failed in 4 consecutive matches and was dismissed for zero.

Nonetheless, regardless of this failure, he was not dropped, with critics criticizing the selectors for giving particular preferential remedy to Abdullah.

Misbah mentioned, “I noticed that the boy has good method and temperament and he has good pictures to play on each wicket. He had nice potential at that age and that is why I did not drop him.” .

Later, Abdullah Shafiq carried out properly within the Check matches as properly and following scoring centuries in opposition to Australia and England, he performed two triple-digit innings together with a double century in opposition to Sri Lanka.