Edinburgh, Pakistan and Scotland will play their first T20 match today on 12 June 2018. The match between Pakistan v Scotland will be the first match of current two T20 matches series. This first T20 match between Scotland v Pakistan will be played at Edinburgh and it will be very interesting as Scotland can create problems for Pakistani team, which has defeated one day topper, England cricket team and it is alarming situation for the Pakistani team.
Pakistan Vs Scotland
In the match between Scotland v England, the Scottish player MacLeod made century and scored 140 runs on just 94 balls and he remained not out. There are some other batsmen of Scottish team, captain Kyle Coetzer, Matt Cross, George Munsey and Richie Barrington are the main players, who showed the brilliant performance in the current series against England. There are some other players like AC Evans, Mark Watt and Sufyan Sharif can be danger for the Pakistani cricket team.
Pakistani team
Pakistani cricket team has played the test matches against Ireland and England and they have acclimatized to the conditions of England and Scotland. They can show their brilliant performance. Injured Babar Azam returned to Pakistan after being injured in the first test match against England. Haris Sohail has replaced him while Fakhar Zaman, Ahmed Shahzad and captain Sarfaraz Ahmed will be part of the national team. Muhammad Amir, Rahat Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hassan Ali will be the part of pacer battery. Shadab Khan will be the part of team as he can do bat and bowl well in the match. Pakistan is at the top position in ICC T20 ranking and it has excessive experience in the international cricket and it doldrums the confidence of Scotland team.
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The captain of Pakistani cricket team, Sarfaraz Ahmed said while giving an interview that Pakistani team played a side match against Scotland and they have shown good performance on Sunday. He said that they will not take Scotland an easy team and they will try to show their performance. They do not have experience to play against Scotland and they can have the advantage of home ground and home crowd.