Web Desk, Abu Dhabi,<\/p>\n
Pakistan qualify for semi-finals after beating Namibia by 45 runs in T20 World Cup fourth match at Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Stadium .<\/p>\n
Earlier, skipper Babar Azam and fellow opener Mohammad Rizwan hit 50 to guide Pakistan to 189-2 in their T20 World Cup Super-12 match against Namibia.<\/p>\n
Babar scored 23rd T20 international fifty with a 49-ball on 70 runs while Rizwan finished with a 50-ball 79 not out after Pakistan won the toss and batted first on Sheikh Zayed Stadium pitch.<\/p>\n
The pair added 113 for the first wicket after Pakistan were slow out, scoring just 59 in the first ten overs but ended with a burst in the next ten, taking 130 runs.<\/p>\n
Veteran Mohammad Hafeez scored a sharp 16-ball for 32 not out including five boundaries.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s total is the second-highest in tournament, behind Afghanistan’s 190-4 against Scotland in Sharjah.<\/p>\n
Pakistan top Group 1 with three wins in as many games and a victory here will see them become the first team to qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Pakistan\u2019s opening partners Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan got several T20I records during their T20 World Cup match against Namibia.<\/p>\n
The records include most century partnerships ever, most runs as batting partners in a calendar year, most T20I runs by in a calendar year, most scores of 50 or more in T20Is a captain and most runs after first 60 innings of a player\u2019s career in T20Is.<\/p>\n
Babar and Rizwan scored 113 runs for the first wicket partnership against Namibia, their 5th century-stand as batting partners the most by any batting partners ever in the shortest format of the game.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani openers also became the first ever batting partners in the world to amass 1,000 partnership runs in a calendar year. They\u2019ve scored 1,041 runs this year in 17 partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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