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Hattrick For Mohammad Nawaz As Pakistan Demolish Afghanistan In Tri-Series Final

Aakash Saini

Mohammad Nawaz celebrating a wicket [Source: @ICC/x]Mohammad Nawaz celebrating a wicket [Source: @ICC/x]

Pakistan decimated Afghanistan in the final to secure the UAE T20I tri-series in Sharjah. Mohammad Nawaz demonstrated his all-round excellence for the ‘Men in Green’, by packing a crucial 25-run knock before claiming a hat-trick ladened five-wicket haul.

Here, we take a look at the entire highlights of the final match of the UAE T20I tri-series 2025 between Pakistan and Afghanistan, as it panned out at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Sunday, September 7.

Pakistan Huff And Puff To 141 Despite Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad’s Wicket Spree

Winning the toss and batting first, Pakistan lost opener Sahibzada Farhan for a three-ball duck to Afghanistan paceman Fazalhaq Farooqi. Saim Ayub (17 off 19), number three Fakhar Zaman (27 off 26) and captain Agha Salman (24 off 27) all failed to convert their starts into prolific scores as the trio failed to read Noor Ahmad and Rashid Khan’s collective spin threat. Ahmad also cleaned up Mohammad Haris for just two to claim tight figures of 2-17 in his four overs.

Mohammad Nawaz made 25 in 21 balls in the backend, while Faheem Ashraf listed 15 off eight to add crucial runs to the Pakistani total at the death as they reached a competitive 141-8. For Afghanistan, captain Rashid Khan picked up three wickets at an expense of 38 runs and Farooqi picked up his second in the form of Nawaz in the final over.

Mohammad Nawaz Breaks Afghanistan’s Back In Big PAK Win

Chasing 142, Afghanistan slipped to 29-4 at the end of the opening powerplay before further succumbing down to 32-6. Shaheen Afridi (1-7) and Abrar Ahmed (2-17) both picked up a wicket each early in the innings, before star all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz cut through Afghanistan’s middle-order with a match-changing hat-trick.

Nawaz picked up the wickets of Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai and Ibrahim Zadran in his hat-trick, and ended up claiming four wickets in the space of six balls at one stage to finish his spell with career-best figures of 5-19. Sufiyan Muqeem delivered the knockout blow with two wickets towards the end to fold up Afghanistan for just 66 in 15.5 overs as Pakistan clinched the UAE T20I tri-series 2025 by 75 runs in a one-sided final.