Pakistan rewriter Sufiyan Muqeem signed up impressive figures of 5-3 in the 2nd T20I versus Zimbabwe on Tuesday (December 3), the very best by any type of Pakistani in T20I cricket.
At the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, the hosts chosen to bat initially, seeking to recuperate after shedding batting 2nd in the very first T20I 2 days back.
Brian Bennett and Tadiwanashe Marumani left to a quick beginning, placing on 37 in 4.2 overs, however that was like it obtained for Zimbabwe as the following half an hour approximately saw the innings entirely split up.
Marumani was captured off the bowling of Abbas Afridi in the 5th over, and Bennett did the same in the following over, rejected byHaris Rauf Afridi after that made up Sikandar Raza, and Agha Salman for Dion Myers to leave Zimbabwe 44-4 in 7.4 overs.
Muqeem went into the assault in the 9th over, and struck with his 4th shipment to catch Ryan Burl lbw with a well-disguised googly. He duplicated the method the extremely following round, this moment knocking back the stumps of brand-new batter Tashinga Musekiwa prior to Wellington Masakadza shut out the hat-trick round.
He obtained his guy off the 4th shipment of his 2nd over however, obtaining Masakadza to border to slide and decrease Zimbabwe to 52-7. Muqeem’s 4th sufferer was Richard Ngarava, whose stumps he struck 2 spheres later on. After Abrar Ahmed took the 9th arch, Muqeem rounded off the innings for 57 by disregarding Clive Madande off a miscued slog– completed with 5-3 from 2.4 overs.
Muqueem’s haul is currently the very best ever before by a Pakistan bowler in T20I cricket, throughout sexes.
Best T20I figures for Pakistan, full checklist
Muqeem damaged Umar Gul’s record figures of 5-6, which the pacer had actually taken two times in his occupation– versus New Zealand in 2009 and South Africa in 2013. He is likewise simply the 5th gamer from Pakistan (and 3rd guy) to take a five-wicket take T20I cricket.
The best figures in females’s T20Is for Pakistan stay Omaima Sohail’s 5-13 versus Sri Lanka, throughout the Women’s Asia Cup in 2022– an initiative which assisted limit the Lankans to 112 and caused a five-wicket win for Pakistan.
| Player | Figures | Opposition | Venue | Date |
| Sufiyan Muqeem | 5-3 | Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 3 Dec 2024 |
| Umar Gul | 5-6 | New Zealand | The Oval | 13 Jun 2009 |
| Umar Gul | 5-6 | South Africa | Centurion | 3 Mar 2013 |
| Omaima Sohail | 5-13 | Sri Lanka | Sylhet | 11 Oct 2022 |
| Imad Wasim | 5-14 | West Indies | Dubai (DICS) | 23 Sep 2016 |
| Nida Dar | 5-21 | Sri Lanka | Kuala Lumpur | 6 Jun 2018 |
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