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Babar Azam, Siyam Ayub and Iftikhar Ahmed bat Pakistan has thrown a challenging target to Ireland in the first T20. They scored 182 runs by losing 6 wickets. The hosts need to score 183 runs to win.
Pakistan lost the wicket of Mohammad Rizwan in the seventh run at Castle Avenue in Dublin. He was run out for 1 run. From there, Siam and Babar took the team's total to 92. Siam returned to this run scoring 45 runs with 4 fours and 3 sixes.
Babar also returned to Peru with the team's run of 116. But before leaving, he played an innings of 57 runs off 43 balls with 8 fours and 1 six. It was the 34th fifty of his T20 International career in the milestone match. In the same run, Azam Khan went for a run and Shadab Khan also went for a run at the time of 123 runs.
From there, Fakhar Zaman and Iftikhar pulled the team's total up to 150. In this run, Fakhar got out for 20 runs with 2 fours and 1 six. After that, Iftikhar made 37 with 3 fours and 3 sixes in 15 balls and Shahid Afridi played an innings of 14 runs to take the team's total to 182.
Ireland's Craig Young took 2 wickets with 27 runs in 4 overs. Mark Adair and Gareth Delaney took 1 wicket each.
