Pakistan Start T20 World Cup With Jittery Win

The Netherlands made a affirmative commencement to their innings astatine nan Sinhalese Sports Club aft they were asked to bat first arsenic opener Michael Levitt thumped 24 disconnected 15 balls.

Bas de Leede continued nan momentum pinch a composed 25-ball 30 and, astatine 105-3 pinch he and Edwards astatine nan crease, nan Netherlands looked group to station a competitory total.

But nan Associate federation mislaid their past six wickets for 20 runs arsenic Mohammad Nawaz, Abrar Ahmed and Saim Ayub picked up 2 wickets apiece.

Sahibzada Farhan's prestigious 47 disconnected 31 balls guided Pakistan to 98-2 earlier he slapped Aryan Dutt to screen to commencement a Pakistan illness arsenic Roelof van der Merwe and Paul van Meekeren bowled tightly.

Ashraf spared their blushes, though, erstwhile he hammered 3 sixes and a 4 disconnected nan penultimate complete from Logan van Beek, nan Netherlands missing a chance to disregard him connected 7 erstwhile Max O'Dowd shelled a drawback astatine long-off.

With 5 runs needed from nan last over, bowled by De Leede, Ashraf sewage himself connected onslaught past thrashed done screen for 4 to forestall a shock.