‘Really disappointed’ – Imad Wasim reacts after Afghanistan’s first-ever series win over Pakistan,

ISLAMABAD– Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative in United Nations and Taliban’s Qatar office chief Suhail Shaheen has felicitated Afghan nation and cricket team over their victory against Pakistan.
On Sunday, Afghanistan beat Pakistan in the second T20 international cricket match taking a decisive lead of 2-0. The third match of the series will be played today (Monday).
The greet shirts made 130 runs for the loss of six wickets in their allotted 20 overs. In reply to that Afghan team achieved the target in the 20th over losing only three wickets. This was the first victory of Afghanistan in any international series against Pakistan.

Earlier,

Imad Wasim has expressed disappointment after the Team Green lost three-match T20I series to Afghanistan in Sharjah as young guns found it difficult to perform on foreign pitch.

“Yes, we lost the series. We are really disappointed, really sad and really upset,” the top scorer of the second match from Pakistan side said, adding that he was short of words to express the feelings.

Saying it was not an excuse most of the players were youngsters, he said: “Tomorrow’s (Monday) game is important and we don’t want to get whitewashed”.

He said the target set by Pakistan was “okay” keeping in view the pitch as it was difficult one. Imad Wasim said all the young players made their place in the team on the back of their performance but it took years to read the pitches.

Imad Wasim reflects on Pakistan team's performance following the second T20I in Sharjah.#AFGvPAK | #BackTheBoysInGreen pic.twitter.com/ydtXxqynQ4

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“I have never seen such a difficult wicket in the international cricket,” he said and vowed to perform well in the third match.

Imad Wasim’s unbeaten half-century went in vain as Afghanistan Beat Pakistan by seven wickets in the second T20I to take a 2-0 unassailable lead in the three-match T20I series here at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Sunday evening.

Afghanistan, chasing a target of 131 runs, got off to a solid start, thanks to Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s 44 runs and Ibrahim Zadran’s 38 runs. Despite losing few wickets in the middle overs, Najibullah Zadran unbeaten 23 off 12 balls, and player of the match from first match Mohammad Nabi’s 14 not out off nine balls, guided Afghanistan to a historical series win over Pakistan with a ball to spare.

This was Afghanistan’s first-ever series win over Pakistan in any format.