Know Why Mohammad Amir Will Not Be Playing Today's Game Against Ireland?

Pakistan won the 2nd Match of the 3-match T20Is series against Ireland while chasing a mammoth target of 195 runs in 16 overs thanks to incredible batting performances by Fakhar Zaman and Md. Rizwan who played a match-winning knock of 78 and 75 runs when their team were 2 wickets down on the score of 13 runs. After getting defeated by Ireland in the opening game of the 3-match T20Is series by 5 wickets, the guests have really bounced back well by defeating the home team by 7 wickets with 4 overs remaining.

After this game today, these 2 teams will be clashing against each other for the decider match of the series at Dublin, where we can see a few changes in the playing 11 of Men in Green after Pakistan chased down a whopping total of 193 runs in 17 overs with the help of their batters, Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman, who played brilliantly and made a hundred run partnership for the third wicket taking Pakistan closer to the target. Later, they were joined by Azam Khan, who played a cameo of 30 runs in 10 balls, which included 1 boundary and 4 maximums all over the ground. However, bowling continues to be a concern for Pakistan, with Naseem Shah and Abbas Afridi failing to scalp wickets at crucial junctures. 

Pakistan bowlers leaked a lot of runs, which helped the Ireland batters to put a target of 193 runs on the boards. Despite picking up 3 wickets for Pakistan, the Men in Green star bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi gave 49 runs in his 4-over spell while Mohammad Amir, who replaced Shadab Khan in the second game, recorded forgettable figures of 1/44 in his four overs.  

Therefore, Pakistan might think of benching Amir and replacing him with either Abrar Ahmed or Haris Rauf, as Abrar joins the side, he could be the game-changer for the visitors in the middle overs. 

On the other hand, Rauf brings extra pace to the table and might run through the Irish batting with aggressive fast bowling. 

Pakistan's Probable XI For 3rd T20I vs Ireland 

Saim Ayub, Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam (C), Fakhar Zaman, Azam Khan (WK), Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shaheen Afridi, Abbas Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf/Abrar Ahmed