Sediqullah Atal has scored the first half-century of the T20 Asia Cup 2025. This Afghanistan opener scored a half-century against Hong Kong China and kept fighting for his team on a spin-friendly pitch.

Sediqullah Atal did wonders in the very first match of the T20 Asia Cup 2025. He has scored the first half-century of this season. This Afghanistan opener scored a half-century against Hong Kong China and kept fighting for his team on a spin-friendly pitch. Sediqullah's innings is slow till the half-century, but he has played an important role in taking the score beyond 100 by handling one end for his team. He has become the sixth batsman from Afghanistan to score a half-century in the T20 format Asia Cup.

Left-handed batsman Sediqullah Atal completed his half-century in 41 balls with the help of 5 fours and a six, which is his third half-century in T20 International cricket and the first half-century in the history of Asia Cup. Although his strike rate was close to 122 in this innings, the thing to see was that his team was losing wickets and had to struggle to score runs on the Abu Dhabi pitch. Before Atal, Noor Ali Zadran, Karim Sadiq, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, and Najibullah Zadran have played half-century innings for Afghanistan in the T20 Asia Cup.

Sediqullah Atal's responsibility increased further when his fellow openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz was out after scoring 8 and Ibrahim Zadran after scoring 1 run and the team's score had become 26/2. In such a situation, he made a partnership with Mohammad Nabi and first took the team's score beyond 70 and then also made a small partnership with Gulbadin. However, his partnership with Azmatullah Umarzai came at a slightly faster pace, as he scored runs at a very fast pace. By the time the news was written, Afghanistan's score had crossed 150. Atal was batting around 70 runs.