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In the 20th match of the T-20 World Cup 2026, UAE cricket team’s openers Aryansh Sharma (74*) and Soheb Khan (51) played brilliant match-winning half-centuries against the Canada cricket team. This was the 5th half-century of Aryansh’s T-20 international career and the first half-century of Soheb. This is also the first half-century for both of them in the World Cup. Thanks to his innings, UAE achieved the target of 151 runs by losing 5 wickets.
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How was the batting of Aryansh and Soheb?
4 wickets of UAE had fallen till 66 runs in front of Aryansh. After that he along with Soheb led the team towards the target. Aryansh completed his half-century in 41 balls and Soheb completed his half-century in 28 balls and made a partnership of 84 runs for the 5th wicket. Soheb was out after scoring 51 runs in 29 balls with 4 fours and 4 sixes. Aryansh remained unbeaten after scoring 74 runs in 53 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes.
How has been Aryansh’s T20 International career?
Aryansh started his T20 International career against the New Zealand cricket team in the year 2023. So far, he has been successful in scoring 537 runs in as many innings of 20 matches at an average of 29.83 and strike rate of 116.23. He has also scored 5 half-centuries, but his best performance has come in this match. This was his first match against Canada, in which he strengthened the team by scoring a half-century.
How has been Soheb’s T20 international career?
Soheb started his T-20 international career against the Ireland cricket team in the same year. So far, he has been successful in scoring 72 runs in as many innings of 4 matches at an average of 18.00 and strike rate of 146.93. This was his first half-century. His innings came at a time when the UAE team was in difficult times. He batted aggressively and led the team to victory.
UAE registered victory like this
In the match, Canada won the toss and decided to bat first. Harsh Thakar scored the highest score of 50 runs. Navneet Dhaliwal scored 34 runs. Junaid Siddiqui bowled lethally for UAE and took 5 wickets. In reply, Aryansh and Soheb played match-winning half-centuries for UAE and gave the team victory at the loss of 5 wickets in 19.4 overs.

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