T20 World Cup: Pakistan beat Netherlands to avoid elimination

Pakistan kept live their slim hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals of the Men's T20 World Cup with a comfy six-wicket triumph implicit the Netherlands.

Netherlands posted a turgid 91-9 successful Perth, with Colin Ackermann scoring 27 and spinner Shadab Khan taking 3-22.

Pakistan request to bushed South Africa connected Thursday and Bangladesh adjacent Sunday and anticipation results spell their mode to progress.

The Netherlands are eliminated, with a 3rd successive decision leaving them bottommost of Group 2.

Earlier, Bangladesh moved into the apical 2 with a melodramatic triumph implicit Zimbabwe, who are besides inactive capable to qualify.

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From commencement to decorativeness the Netherlands' batting was poor.

It was a tepid display, with 63 dot balls successful the innings, and nary batter looked comfortable.

Bas de Leede was forced to discontinue connected six aft being deed successful the helmet grille by Haris Rauf, resulting successful a immense chopped connected his cheekbone, and him being replaced by concussion substitute Logan van Beek.

They struggled to header with the gait of the Pakistan seamers, Mohammad Wasim bowling Tim Pringle and Fred Klaassen successful successive balls with fantabulous yorkers.

He was denied a hat-trick by the finest of margins arsenic the shot went betwixt limb stump and Paul van Meekeren's close leg.

Shadab was impressive, bowling a stump-to-stump enactment to prime up 2 lbw dismissals. The leg-spinner present has six wickets successful the tourney and 20 successful T20 internationals successful 2022.

There was different nonaccomplishment for Pakistan skipper Babar Azam, who was tally retired by Roeloef van der Merwe for four, meaning helium has scored conscionable 8 runs successful 3 games.

Fakhar Zaman, who came into the squad and made 20, and Rizwan, who played nicely including 2 gorgeous consecutive drives, were caught down disconnected Brandon Glover and Van Meekeren.

Shan Masood was caught astatine heavy 3rd with the scores level arsenic Pakistan started to labour aft a accelerated start. But yet they got the triumph needed to support their tourney going erstwhile Shadab drove to the screen boundary.