T20 World Cup 2026: Sahibzada Farhan hits half-century against USA, completes 1,000 runs

Updated: 10-02-2026, 07.11 PM

What is the news?

In the 12th match of T-20 World Cup 2026, Pakistan cricket team’s opener Sahibzada Farhan played an inning of 73 runs against the USA cricket team. This was his 9th half-century of T20 International career and during this he also completed 1,000 runs of his career. Thanks to his innings, Pakistan batted first and scored 190/9. Let’s take a look at Farhan’s innings.

Such was Farhan’s innings

Farhan hit 3 excellent fours in the second over of the innings. He batted aggressively against the USA bowlers in the powerplay overs. He completed his half-century in 27 balls. This opening batsman scored 73 runs facing 41 balls. In his innings he hit 6 fours and 5 sixes. His innings was ended by Harmeet Singh. This was Farhan’s first half-century innings in the T20 World Cup.

Farhan completes his 1,000 runs in T-20 International

Farhan started his T20 international career in 2018 with a match against the Australia cricket team. So far, he has scored 1,042 runs in 41 innings of 41 matches at an average of 26.05 and strike rate of 132.23. His highest score in this format has been 80* runs. He became the 10th batsman for Pakistan to cross the 1,000-run mark in T-20 Internationals.

Babar missed half century

Pakistan’s leading batsman Babar Azam batted well today and missed his half-century. Babar was out after scoring 46 runs in 32 balls. Babar and Farhan together made an important partnership of 81 runs for the third wicket. Apart from him, all-rounder Shadab Khan played a useful inning of 30 runs in 12 balls. Shadab hit 4 fours and 1 six in his innings.

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Shadley Van Schalkwyk took 4 wickets in the second consecutive match

USA fast bowler Shadley Van Schalkwyk continued his amazing performance. He took 4 wickets while giving 25 runs in 4 overs against Pakistan. This was the second consecutive match in which he took 4 wickets. Earlier, he had also taken 4 wickets while giving 25 runs against India. Schalkwick is currently the bowler taking the most wickets (8) in the T20 World Cup 2026.