Edinburgh, Pakistani cricket team played the first T20 match against Scotland and it won the T20 match by the margin of 48 runs. Pakistan has to play two T20 matches against Scottish cricket team during this tour and the first T20 match was played on 12 June 2018.
Sarfaraz Ahmed is the captain of Pakistani national team and he won the toss in first T20 match and decided to give target to the host team. Pakistani team opened the inning by Fakhar Zaman and Ahmed Shahzad, who gave the opening stand of 33 runs and at this point, Ahmed Shahzad got out for 14 runs. Hussain Talat joined Fakhar but Fakhar was out at his individual total of 21 runs. Then Sarfaraz came on the wicket and he made the partnership of 41 runs and at this time, Hussain Talast lost his wicket at his individual total of 18 runs. Shoaib Malik made the partnership of 96 runs with Sarfaraz Ahmed and they increased the total. Shoaib Malik made 53 aggressive runs on just 27 runs and he was out. Then the new comer was Asif Ali and Sarfaraz Ahmed took his total to 89 runs and he remained not out. The total score of Pakistani cricket team was 204 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
When Ireland started its inning, the opening players, Kayl Coetzer and George Munsey started the opening stand and took the total to 53 runs. Coetzer made 31 runs and Muhammad Nawaz took his wicket while Hassan Ali took the wicket of Munsey, who made 25 runs. Then the spinning attack of Pakistan could not let the host team to control their inning and the Scottish wickets were fallen from time to time. Richie Barrington made 3 runs and Colum MacLeod scored 12 runs and both the players became the target of Shadab Khan. Dylan Budge scored 24 runs while Leask and Matt Cross made the partnership of 43 runs for the 6th wicket. After that their wickets were fallen with regular team and whole Scottish team was out at 156 runs and Pakistani cricket team won the match by 48 runs.
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