Pakistan captain Abbas Afridi smashed 31 runs from a single over — five sixes and a single — from Krunal Pandya, powering Pakistan to a crushing victory over India in the 2026 Hong Kong Sixes. Pakistan completed the chase in just 3.5 overs, with team-mate Nafay also striking at pace, while India’s batting faltered.
Pakistan’s innings against India turned on one devastating over from India’s Krunal Pandya. Facing Pandya, captain Abbas Afridi hit five sixes and a single across the six legal deliveries, instantly swinging the contest in Pakistan’s favour. Match reports credited Afridi and Nafay with powering Pakistan to the win, and the team reached India’s target inside 3.5 overs — an indication of how comprehensively India’s bowling and batting were outplayed on the day.
Abbas Afridi scored 31 runs from Krunal Pandya’s over. Moneycontrol reported the ball-by-ball sequence as six, six, six, six, six, one: five sixes worth 30 runs, followed by a single. Business Standard independently reported that Krunal conceded five sixes in an over during the match — the same brutal over, described from the Indian bowling side. The matching numbers confirm exactly what happened: five sixes, one single, 31 runs.
| Ball | Outcome | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | 6 |
| 2 | Six | 6 |
| 3 | Six | 6 |
| 4 | Six | 6 |
| 5 | Six | 6 |
| 6 | Single | 1 |
| Total off the over | 31 | |
Ball-by-ball reconstruction of Abbas Afridi’s over against Krunal Pandya, as reported in Hong Kong Sixes match coverage.
In six-a-side Twenty20 cricket, innings are far shorter than in a traditional 20-over T20, which means every over carries more weight than usual. A 31-run over can supply a large slice of a side’s scoring — and because batters may face only a handful of deliveries in a match, one explosive period such as Afridi’s against Pandya can dictate the pace of an entire chase. Pakistan completed its run chase against India in 3.5 overs, underlining how one player can dominate this format when a bowler errs for even a single ball.
Abbas Afridi is a Pakistan cricketer who has established himself as a pace bowler in domestic and age-group cricket. At the 2026 Hong Kong Sixes he served as Pakistan’s captain, and his innings against India — five sixes in one over — revealed an aggressive batting side to his primary skill set. Match reports covering the game focused on the Hong Kong Sixes result and did not detail any senior international appearances.
The Hong Kong Sixes is an international six-a-side Twenty20 cricket tournament staged in Hong Kong since 2012. Each match features two teams of six players contesting short, high-scoring innings, and the format rewards power-hitting over patient accumulation — precisely the conditions in which a 31-run over becomes possible. The 2026 edition included a much-anticipated India-Pakistan contest, which Pakistan won with a chase completed in 3.5 overs.
India’s batting faltered in the match, according to coverage by Rediff, and the bowling attack was dismantled when Abbas Afridi struck five sixes in Krunal Pandya’s over, which Business Standard reported as five sixes conceded in an over. The available reports did not publish India’s batting collapse in scorecard detail, so the exact figures behind the faltering display — including team totals for both sides — remain unconfirmed from the coverage available.
India-Pakistan cricket matches draw outsized global attention because of the long-standing sporting rivalry between the two boards, and in recent years the two sides have met almost exclusively outside bilateral series, in multi-team events such as the Hong Kong Sixes. Encounters in short, six-a-side formats tend to be decided by single explosive spells, which is why one 31-run over from Pakistan captain Abbas Afridi produced such a one-sided result in the 2026 edition.
Sports group JSW Sports secured brand partnerships for the Hong Kong Sixes, according to Social Samosa’s coverage of the tournament’s commercial arrangements. The deal points to the sponsorship structure behind the event in which Pakistan defeated India, although the report did not name the individual partner brands involved.
The coverage summarised here delivered the headline result, the 31-run over and the partnerships news. It did not publish detailed scorecards — Pakistan’s final total, India’s innings runs, individual figures beyond Afridi’s 31 off the over, or the specific venue within Hong Kong — so those details cannot be confirmed from the available reporting.
Five sixes, plus a single, for 31 runs in the over. Moneycontrol reported the sequence as six, six, six, six, six, one, and Business Standard confirmed Krunal conceded five sixes in the over.
Pakistan completed the chase in 3.5 overs, with captain Abbas Afridi and team-mate Nafay powering the innings, according to match reports from The Statesman.
Abbas Afridi captained Pakistan in the 2026 Hong Kong Sixes clash against India, where his 31-run over off Krunal Pandya helped crush the arch-rivals.
At the Hong Kong Sixes tournament in Hong Kong in 2026. The specific venue within Hong Kong and the exact match date were not stated in the available reports.
JSW Sports secured brand partnerships for the Hong Kong Sixes, according to Social Samosa. The individual partner brand names were not disclosed in the report.
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