In the first T20 match of the series against South Africa, Mohammad Rizwan took unwanted records.
In the match played in Durban on Tuesday, the national team had to face defeat by South Africa by 11 runs in the first T20 match.
Captain Muhammad Rizwan played an innings of 74 runs off 62 balls while showing slow batting in the T20 match, for which he was severely criticized.
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As an opening batsman, he scored just 46 runs off 49 balls by the end of the opening 16th over, while the Green Shirts needed 60 runs in the next 4 overs to win.
Rizwan tried to accelerate his innings but he was unable to win the match for the team.
The wicketkeeper-batsman’s strike rate of 119.35 was his third lowest in an innings where he scored more than 50 runs. During this year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, he also played a slow innings of 53 not out against Canada.
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Rizwan’s innings of 74 off 62 balls earned him the unwanted record of being the second-slowest innings as a captain in T20 Internationals, ahead of New Zealand’s Kane Williamson who scored 70 off 60 balls against Pakistan in 2016. .
