Farooqi-led bowling assault first bowled PNG out for a lowly 95 on the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad and the batters next chased ailing the objective within the sixteenth over for the 3rd win in a row within the staff degree.
For his superior figures of 4-0-16-3, Farooqi used to be the discoverable selection for the Participant of the Fit award and when he used to be being interviewed nearest the sport, his skipper Rashid Khan used to be open teasing him from in the back of the digital camera.
Taking a look to distract Farooqi all over his interview with Ian Bishop, playful Rashid used to be open making his teammate snicker.
Responding to Rashid’s mischief, Farooqi laughingly informed his skipper to ‘close up’.
With 3 wins in as many video games, Afghanistan are already via to the T20 Global Cup later spherical at the side of co-hosts West Indies from Workforce C.
Afghanistan’s win on Friday additionally intended that the outcome knocked the 2021 version’s finalists Unused Zealand out of the match.
“We still have one game left, an important group game, and that’s going to be a good gauge of where we are against a powerful West Indies side who won an incredible game last night (against New Zealand) from the position they were in,” head tutor Jonathan Trott mentioned within the post-match press convention.
“So, it’s nice to have won tonight and got qualification as such. To come to a World Cup and win three is a nice feeling, but also the realisation and reality that we haven’t won anything yet.
“We most effective completed the gang degree and we’ve were given some impressive cricket suits bobbing up which we’re getting to need to play games smartly in.”
Afghanistan play games their ultimate staff recreation in opposition to West Indies on June 18.
