Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Ibrahim Zadran
Ibrahim Zadran
57(51) 7x4 - 0x6
Control %94%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
1 1 8 7 14 8 5 13
Sikandar Raza
Sikandar Raza
37(32) 4x4 - 0x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 8 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
0 1 8 7 8 2 2 9

Best performances - Bowlers

Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan
O3
M0
R9
W3
Eco3
RHB
OFFLEG
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
B Evans
B Evans
O3
M0
R21
W2
Eco7
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: Harshith Gowda | Commentator: Aaditya Narayan

END OF OVER:
18 | 15 Runs | AFG: 129/3 | RR: 7.16

  • Azmatullah Omarzai25 (13b)
  • Ibrahim Zadran57 (51b)
  • Richard Ngarava4-0-35-0
  • Tinotenda Maposa2-0-25-0

Right, that's all we have from our live coverage of this game this evening. On behalf of Alagappan, Harshith and Chandan, this is Aaditya Narayan signing off. thank you, stay safe, goodbye!

The player of the match is Rashid Khan for his three wickets. He gives his player of the match to Abdollah Ahmadzai

"He's going to have a bright future for Afghanistan. So happy for him. This is a positive motivation for him. To welcome the youngsters as well as possible for him to deliver his skill and talent, so far he's enjoying it, he's loving it. Looking forward to seeing more of him. I felt I needed to bowl at those stages where the team needed me to take a couple of wickets. With that, we brought the score down to 125. We are in a kind of situation where we will struggle, we will have tough times, we learn from that. The big thing is the World Cup coming up. Losses come, but as long as we learn from it and improve. The finger is still bleeding, I'll have an X-Ray tomorrow, so we'll see."

Sikandar Raza: This team needs my runs, unfortunately today I got out when I was set. So I'll have a long hard look at myself. This isn't us. I sent a message to the dressing room that this was a 145-150 wicket. They chased it with two overs to spare, but we'd have set different fields if we'd gotten to 145-150. We have defended this total and lower than that against better teams. The guys tried really well. More often than not, it's very tough to defend. I cannot fault the boys for effort and energy and attitude. What we need to work is not to be scared to throw the first punch. I think we have to remind each other to not second guess ourselves, and try and be aggressive and positive.

Time for the presentation now...

4:34pm: Well, that's that. Afghanistan's seventh series win against Zimbabwe. Set up by the bowlers, finished off superbly in the chase by Ibrahim Zadran. Gurbaz went off on a train in the powerplay, but that didn't go on too long. Atal and Darwish didn't score too many, but at no point were Afghanistan under any pressure in that chase. They got 54 in the powerplay. Then went 43 balls without a boundary. And they've still finished it off with two overs to spare.

17.6
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah Omarzai, FOUR, Super shot to finish! Full ball on off stump, Azmat crashes it over mid-off, and it crashes into the advertising hoardings on the bounce!
17.5
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah Omarzai, FOUR, Full and wide, Azmat slams a drive square on the offside and into the boundary. Now the scores are level.
17.4
1
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run, Back of a length ball on off stump. Steered to backward point. Misfield allows the batters a single.
17.3
1
Ngarava to Azmatullah Omarzai, 1 run, Length ball on off stump, driven out to sweeper cover.
17.2
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah Omarzai, FOUR, Laced through the covers. Full and wide of off stump, Azmat gives himself room by moving his front foot out of the way, and cracks it to the right of extra cover.
17.1
1
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run, Full and wide, driven to sweeper cover.

Afghanistan 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st24Ibrahim ZadranRahmanullah Gurbaz
2nd37Ibrahim ZadranSediqullah Atal
3rd33Darwish RasooliIbrahim Zadran
4th35Azmatullah OmarzaiIbrahim Zadran