Pakistan’s Saim Ayub performs a shot throughout their ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 Tremendous Fours match in opposition to India on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on September 21, 2025. — AFP
Pakistan’s batter Saim Ayub surpassed former captain Shahid Afridi on an undesirable document record after getting a duck throughout their Tremendous Fours conflict in opposition to Bangladesh within the T20 Asia Cup 2025 on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
The left-handed batter fell for a three-ball duck, his fourth within the ongoing continental event.
The 24-year-old scored geese in all three of Pakistan’s group-stage matches in opposition to Oman, arch-rivals India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), respectively.
Ayub fell sufferer to Mahedi Hasan on the fourth supply of the second over as he smashed a flighted supply straight into the fingers of Rishad Hossain at mid-on.
This was his eighth duck in T20Is, which took him previous former captain and star all-rounder Shahid Afridi on the record of most geese by a Pakistan batter within the shortest format, led by out-of-favour middle-order batter Umar Akmal.
Star batter Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez, and Kamran Akmal are joint fourth on the undesirable record with seven geese every.
Most geese for Pakistan in T20Is
Umar Akmal – 10 geese in 84 matchesSaim Ayub – 9 geese in 47 matchesShahid Afridi – 8 geese in 98 matchesKamran Akmal – 7 geese in 58 matchesMohammad Hafeez – 7 geese in 119 matchesBabar Azam – 7 geese in 128 matches
Earlier within the event, Ayub additionally grew to become the 62nd batter in males’s T20Is to bag three consecutive geese, that includes compatriots Mohammad Hafeez and Abdullah Shafique.
Shafique is on the high of the undesirable record with 4 consecutive geese within the shortest format.
