Pakistan booked their place in the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup with a dominant victory over Namibia.<\/p>\n
Opener Sahibzada Farhan set up the win with a sparkling 58-ball century before the Pakistan bowlers got to work, bowling out the associate nation for just 97.<\/p>\n
Victory means Pakistan join India in qualifying from Group A, and eliminates both United States and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Farhan, 29, has enjoyed a reasonably impressive competition so far – hitting 47 against the Netherlands and 73 against the USA, though he did register a duck against India in Pakistan’s last outing.<\/p>\n
Here, though, he was back to his best – dominating on the back foot and plundering so many of his runs through the leg side.<\/p>\n
He was particularly dismissive of WP Myburgh, swiping the leg-spinner for two towering sixes over cow corner. He also took a liking to Jack Brassell’s medium pace, striking 30 off 13 deliveries against him as Pakistan went through the gears.<\/p>\n
He was well supported by Shadab Khan, who hit 36 off 22 balls to lift Pakistan to 199-3.<\/p>\n
Namibia never got going with the bat, despite Louren Steenkamp’s 23.<\/p>\n
Their batters struggled against Pakistan’s spinners in particular as Usman Tariq once again impressed with 4-16, including a beautiful googly which bamboozled Ruben Trumpelmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan booked their place in the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup with a dominant victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}