Mohammad Rizwan Sledges Iftikhar Ahmed In Pashto. Here’s What Happened Next. Watch | Cricket News

Surrey Jaguars registered a surprising 38-run victory over Vancouver Knights within the Qualifier 1 match of the continued Global T20 Canada event on Friday. Asked to bat first, the Jaguars posted a complete of 139/9 in 20 overs with skipper Iftikhar Ahmed scoring 36 runs. Later, the Knights have been bundled out for 101 as Matthew Forde took a four-wicket haul. With this win, the Jaguars have entered the ultimate of the event. Iftikhar performed an excellent innings for his group however his dismissal turned the spotlight of the match.

In the 18th over of the Jaguar’s innings, Iftikhar was in red-hot kind as he had smashed two large sixes on the primary two deliveries of Karthik Meiyappan. As the third supply went for a dot ball, wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan took this chance to distract his Pakistan teammate and began sledging him in Pashto.

Iftikhar Ahmed had hit two sixes in two balls, Mohammad Rizwan determined to sledge him in Pushto and he threw his wicket the very subsequent ball. Haha #GT20Canada #GT20Season3pic.twitter.com/EuEJWbFiTS

— Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) August 4, 2023

Rizwan’s trick paid-off as on the very subsequent supply as Iftikhar went for a giant hit however didn’t time it correctly. As a consequence, the ball landed straight into the arms of Fabian Allen on the long-on and the Pakistan star needed to depart for 36.

Coming to the match, the Jaguars had a troublesome day with the bat as no different participant aside from Iftikhar was capable of go previous the 30-run mark. For the Knights, Junaid Siddique was the star with the ball as he scalped 4 wickets whereas Ruben Trumpelmann and Karthik Meiyappan took two wickets every.

Later, the sport turned the wrong way up because the Jaguars’ bowlers utterly dominated the proceedings. Matthew Forde took a four-wicket haul whereas Dillon Heyliger took two wickets. Apart from them, Spencer Johnson, Ammar Khalid, Ayaan Khan, and Sandeep Lamichhane took one wicket every.

Surrey Jaguars will now be going through both Vancouver Knights or Montreal Tigers within the summit conflict of the event on Sunday.