Vikrant Shekhawat : Nov 05, 2023, 11:33 AM
World Cup 2023: World Cup 2023 has seen a lot of excitement in 36 matches so far. For this reason, only 2 teams have been able to qualify for the semi-finals, apart from this, there is an exciting battle between four teams for the remaining 2 places. Pakistan team is also included in this, who chased 402 runs against New Zealand in their last match and won the match by 21 runs as per Duckworth Lewis rule. The explosive innings of opening batsman Fakhar Zaman played an important role in this victory of the Pakistan team, who scored 126 runs in just 81 balls. Fakhar was also given the Man of the Match award for his brilliant innings.Fakhar has won this award twice in just three matches.Pakistan team had dropped Fakhar Zaman from the playing-11 after the match against Netherlands. After this, the Pakistani team won only one in the next five matches. In the match against Bangladesh, Pakistan included Fakhar in the playing-11 in place of Imam-ul-Haq and as soon as he came, he played a brilliant inning of 81 runs in just 74 balls. Fakhar was given the Man of the Match award for his match-winning innings. After this, in the match against New Zealand, Fakhar continued his dangerous form and scored a century and again won the title of Player of the Match. Along with this, Fakhar Zaman has also won this award twice consecutively in just 3 matches in this World Cup. Apart from Fakhar, Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Quinton de Kock have won this award twice each in this World Cup.Fakhar broke 16 years old recordIn the match against New Zealand, Fakhar Zaman hit a total of 11 sixes during his innings of 126 runs. On the basis of his brilliant innings, Fakhar has now become the player for Pakistan to hit the most number of sixes in a World Cup edition. Fakhar has hit a total of 18 sixes in the World Cup so far, whereas before him this record was in the name of Imran Nazir who had hit a total of 9 sixes in the 2007 World Cup.