T20 WC 2024: Afghanistan beat Untouched Zealand through 84 runs© X (Twitter)
Rampant Afghanistan mauled a torpid Untouched Zealand through 84 runs to clutch lead spot in Team C on the T20 International Cup with a injury win on the Guyana Nationwide Stadium on Friday. I’m ready a difficult 160 for victory, the Dim Caps crashed to 75 all out off 15.2 overs to endure their first defeat ever to Afghanistan in T20 World cricket. Opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz led the best way for the Afghans with a lead rating of 80 off 56 balls (5 fours, 5 sixes), posting 103 for the primary wicket with Ibrahim Zadran (44) through the fifteenth over on how one can a last general of 159 for 6 nearest they had been installed.
Left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi later adopted his five-wicket opening fit destruction of Uganda with the primary 3 wickets of the Untouched Zealand innings ahead of coming again to assert a fourth to finish the fit.
Captain and ambitious leg-spinner Rashid Khan shared the bowling honours with a haul of 4 for 17, together with reverse quantity Kane Williamson with the primary ball of his enchanment to successfully finish the fit as a competition.
Untouched Zealand’s capitulation and open rustiness leaves the 2021 crushed finalists with a difficult problem forward, establishing in opposition to co-hosts West Indies in Trinidad after Wednesday
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