The Sri Lankan players in a confab. Hasaranga giving young Wellalage some advice.
FIVE SIXES IN FIVE BALLS! Can he go six in six?
19.5 D Wellalage to M Nabi
6 SIXXXX AGAIN! Fifth one of the over... Nabi is seeing the ball like it's a football. Wellalage commits a crime, he drops a flatter one at a shorter length on the off-stump, 94.1 clicks.
40 year old Mohammad Nabi has scored a sprightly half-century that has reignited the flames of hopes for Afghanistan!
6 FREE HIT AND GOES THE DISTANCE! MOHAMMAD NABI GETS TO HIS 50 OFF JUST 20 BALLS. THIS IS SOME HITTING FROM THE PRESIDENT HERE IN ABU DHABI! Full and outside the off stump. Nabi lunges forward and gets there with his long reach, lofting it over widish long off for a clean-looking maximum. Lifts his bat to acknolwedge the appreciation.
Trying to take it out of Nabi's reach....OH! But he has overstepped! Free hit — as if Nabi needed one.
19.4 D Wellalage to M Nabi
NB WIDE! OH DEAR! IT IS A NO BALL, TO BE EXACT! Wellalage has overstepped! Fires it full and keeps it past the tramline wide outside off. Nabi ignores it. Good take from Kusal Mendis, who dives and stops some freebies. Give as wide, but later, the replays confirmed that Wellalage has overstepped.
150 up! Surely, too early to say that he can go six in six? Surely, too early....
19.3 D Wellalage to M Nabi
6 SIX, SIX AND SIX AGAIN!!! This is a Mohammad Nabi masterclass! Over the wicket. Full and outside the off stump. Wellalage fails to keep it away from his arc. Easy pickings for Nabi, who gets under it and launches it over long on for a huge hit. Afghanistan march past 150!