Haris Sohail scores 89 vs SA, the same number he had on his shirt

Pakistan batsman Haris Sohail made a memorable return to the team by scoring a 59ball 89 and taking Pakistan to a muchneeded win vs South Africa Haris Sohail replaced an outofform Shoaib Malik in the sidePlaying in his first match of the tournament since the outing against West Indies in their opener Sohail smashed nine fours and three sixes to help the cause of Pakistan who are struggling to stay alive in the semifinal raceHaris Sohail later took to Twitter to thanks his fans for the supportThanks everyone for your love prayers support and kind messages This MoM is for Pakistan On to the next game PakistanZindabad PAKvSA CWC19 WeHaveWeWill pictwittercomJcAeNWm3R3mdash Haris Sohail iHarisSohail June 23 2019The 30yearold Sohail added 81 runs for the fourth wicket with Babar Azam 69 off 80 balls but it was his brisk 71run partnership with Imad Wasim 23 off 15 balls that gave Pakistan innings the impetus it needed in this mustwin gameThe last 10 overs yielded 91 runs with Sohail doing most of the damageBatting first Pakistan were off to their most convincing start in the tournament with the opening duo of Fakhar Zaman and ImamulHaq adding 81 runs in just under 15 oversBoth the openers struck halfadozen boundaries each during their stay in the middle but fell for an identical 44Fakhar and Imam drove and pulled pacers Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi 364with authorityHaving seen off the South African pace duo without much difficulty Imam welcomed firstchange bowler Chris Morris with a drive through midoff for a four Before that Fakhar sloggedswept Ngidi for a six over deep midwicketSouth Africa had their first breakthrough when Imran Tahir 241 had Fakhar scooping one to the safe hands of Hashim Amla at first slipTahir went past Allan Donald as the highest wickettaker for the Proteas at World Cups with 38 wickets when he produced an excellent onehanded catch to dismiss ImamMohammad Hafeez hit a six during his 20 but could not translate his start into a substantial knock thanks to Aiden Marakram who had the batsman trapped in front of the wicketBabar Azam oozed class as he worked the ball around for singles and twos in between seven boundaries but the innings that propped up Pakistan was the one played by SohailHaris Sohails fans were very pleased by the batsmans innings and took to Twitter to express their appreciationCongratulations team Pakistan Great team effort today and a strong comeback Well batted Haris Sohail Well bowled everyone Inshallah more winning matches to come PakistanZindabad PakistanPaindabad TheRealPCBmdash Junaid khan 83 JunaidkhanREAL June 23 2019Winning is 1 of the delightful moments for PakistanThe timely amp great comeback has brought the energy in usHaris Sohails performance was remarkable to lift the teamHe incredibly played for his teamOverallPakistan showed hunger to win this matchPAKvSA wehavewewill CWC19 pictwittercomCFKy4w3whtmdash VEENA MALIK iVeenaKhan June 23 2019Star of the day u00f0u009fu0098u008d HarisSohail pictwittercomZxvLrSEkGDmdash Khudadad Arif khudadad_10 June 23 2019ldquoItrsquos very difficult to sit out and wait for your turn but I know that I would get the chance and when the chance was given to me I would performrdquoPlayer of the Match Haris Sohail was making just his second CWC19 appearance today and boy did he make his opportunity count u00f0u009fu0092u00aa pictwittercomQz9cBGTWzUmdash Cricket World Cup cricketworldcup June 23 2019Shoaib Malik after watching haris Sohail performance u00f0u009fu0091u0087u00f0u009fu0091u0087u00f0u009fu0098u0082 pictwittercomx3w994cc5Dmdash Khurram Mustaqeem BaoramiRajaji June 24 2019That is brilliant That is so classy from the lefthanderHaris Sohails 59ball 89 in yesterdays CWC19 clash against South Africa was studded with u00f0u009fu0091u008c strokes Heres a u00f0u009fu0093u00bdu00efu00b8u008f of some of his best shotsoppo BeAShotMaker pictwittercomLlPCdiwzg6mdash ICC ICC June 24 2019HarisSohail right now to his fans pictwittercom2d3xNa0Ml7mdash Abbas Jehan AbbasJehan75 June 23 2019Great Haris sohail next time write 150 on your T shirt u00f0u009fu0098u0082u00f0u009fu0098u0082u00f0u009fu0098u0082u00f0u009fu0098u0082u00f0u009fu0098u0082 pictwittercomw9i7K11ROXmdash Dr Irum u00f0u009fu0092u008e Dr_IrumOfficial June 24 2019Beauty of the matchu00e2u009du00a4HarisSohail u00f0u009fu0094u00a5u00f0u009fu0094u00a589 Shirt No89 Runs scored pictwittercomLR1bNtBOwQmdash Mai btata Honu00f0u009fu008cu009a AhmedGoraya14 June 23 2019Good HarisSohail Next time write 200 on TShirt u00f0u009fu0098u00b1 pictwittercomYRq6MXKitlmdash Team Pakistan u00f0u009fu0087u00b5u00f0u009fu0087u00b0 iampak11 June 24 2019Haris Sohail to mailk PAKvSA pictwittercomPI7GyscmjVmdash HANDSOME PM HandsomePM June 23 2019Shoaib malik on Haris sohails performance PAKvSA pictwittercomOQiryuGJzNmdash u00f0u009fu008fu00b5u00efu00b8u008f baqwasNakaro June 23 2019With inputs from PTICatch up on all the latest sports news and updates here Also 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