COLOMBO: Tayyab Tahir’s scintillating 71-ball 108 and Sahibzada Farhan’s clinical 62-ball 65 led the Pakistan Shaheens to their second ACC Men’s Emerging Cup crown after they thumped India A by 128 runs in the final at Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu (PSS) Stadium on Sunday.
INDIA A’s INNINGS
Chasing a target total of 353, India A were bundled out for 224. Only Abhishek Sharma (61 off 51), Yash Dhull (39 off 41), Sai Sudharsan (29 off 28) showed some resistance with the bat for their team.
Other batters, Nikin Jose (11), Nishant Sindhu (10), Dhruv Jhel (9), Riyan Parag (14), Harshit Rana (13), Manav Suthar (7), Rajvardhan Hangargekar (11), Yuvrajsinh Dodiya (5) failed to show any significant resistance with the bat.
The Indian openers – Sudharsan and Sharma started off brilliantly by putting up a swift 64-run partnership, before Sudharsan was removed by Arshad Iqbal.
The loss of Sudharsan started the slide and it went downhill thereafter.
For the Shaheens, Sufiyan Muqeem (3-66) spearheaded the bowling attack, scooping up three wickets.
Mehran Mumtaz (2-30), Arshad Iqbal (2-34) and Mohammad Wasim (2-26) bagged two wickets apiece.
Mubashir Khan (10) also picked up a wicket, flummoxing Nishant Sindhu.
Qasim Akram (0-23) remained wicketless.
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