Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    4.4 top edge and taken at midwicket. The effort to close the face and slog against the left-armer's angle goes awry. Fareed is rewarded for doing the basics right, hitting the pitch hard and getting some slight seam movement away. Bennett under pressure plays a big shot and it doesn't come off 24/2
    3.3 taken at short fine. Myers' plan is to clear that man because Abdollah is the only one saving runs behind square leg. The ball is there for it. Short and straight enough. The field is there for it with very little protection behind square on the leg side. But he just can't get good enough contact to clear the infield and get his boundary. Mujeeb strikes early again 22/1
    5.4 taken at mid-off. Not being to the pitch of the ball, and it turning the wrong way, does Taylor in. It's full. It's on the stumps. Taylor tries to force it up and over the bowler, but is never in control. One hand comes off the bat, which then angles away to the off side, and a simple catch results 34/3
    16.1 wicket first ball. Raza looked the best of the Zimbabwe batters but he falls now, popping a return catch to his opposite number. He was just trying to thump the ball back where it came from, maybe looking for a four straight down the ground. But Rashid's got good reflexes and he stuck out a right hand and it sticks 104/6
    10.3 bounces him out. Cramping Burl. Climbing on him. He tries to swat it off his face, into the leg side, but the ball skews off towards point instead, where Sediq runs back and picks up a smart catch. So that ankle problem he picked up earlier in the field is no bother now after treatment 57/4
    13.4 yorks him! That's top stuff from Nabi. Shifts around the wicket and lasers it in at the stumps. Munyonga is a little lax. He doesn't pick that this seam-up delivery; that though it is full it has a lot more danger attached to it. Winds up again and by the time he realises he needs to adjust, he's already done 80/5
    16.4 superb catch on the long-on boundary. Nabi's been everywhere today and now he's just showing off, running to his left, leaping up and taking the catch reverse cup just in front of the fence. A loopy delivery had Musekiwa thinking he could go big, but not quite big enough 105/7
    18.5 looks to sweep and is trapped right in front. Strangely he's almost through the shot by the time the ball, lobbed up, comes down to strike him on the bottom of the front pad. 121/9
    17.2 fuller delivery outside off, pats it to point and just sets off. But Sediq fires in a direct hit from there and Maposa is not even in the frame. Never a single there 107/8
    19.3 charges out, doesn't make contact and the yorker sends his off stump flying. That's the end of the innings. 125/10
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    Extras
    1 (lb 1)
    TOTAL
    125 all out (19.3 Overs, RR: 6.41)
    Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Dion Myers, 3.3 ov), 2-24 (Brian Bennett, 4.4 ov), 3-34 (Brendan Taylor, 5.4 ov), 4-57 (Ryan Burl, 10.3 ov), 5-80 (Tony Munyonga, 13.4 ov), 6-104 (Sikandar Raza, 16.1 ov), 7-105 (Tashinga Musekiwa, 16.4 ov), 8-107 (Tinotenda Maposa, 17.2 ov), 9-121 (Brad Evans, 18.5 ov), 10-125 (Wellington Masakadza, 19.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Azmatullah Omarzai20904.580000
    Mujeeb Ur Rahman402626.581100
    Fareed Ahmad403218105000
    Rashid Khan30933100000
    Abdollah Ahmadzai3.30282852000
    Mohammad Nabi302016.6672000
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    2.6 One shot too many from Gurbaz. Evans sticks to that back of a length, Gurbaz advances and looks to mow it over midwicket, but it hits him high on the bat, and it lobs up into the hands of the mid-on fielder Maposa, who takes it comfortably. 24/1
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    7.2 Atal sees the left-arm spinner and thinks it's his match-up to go after. That brings about his downfall. Masakadza angles this wide from around the wicket, it's fairly full. Atal is looking to take it over the wide long-on boundary. But the angle ensures it skews off the outer half of his bat, and straight into the hands of a waiting Ryan Burl at long-off. 61/2
    14.3 Short ball does the trick for Evans! He bangs it in short around off stump, Darwish looks to play the upper cut, both his feet are off the ground when he makes contact with the ball. Doesn't get the distance on that shot, and it lands in Maposa's hands at third. 94/3
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    192.3
    Extras
    6 (b 2, lb 2, w 2)
    TOTAL
    129/3 (18 Overs, RR: 7.16)
    Fall of wickets: 1-24 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 2.6 ov), 2-61 (Sediqullah Atal, 7.2 ov), 3-94 (Darwish Rasooli, 14.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    WP Masakadza402015131100
    R Ngarava403508.7576000
    B Evans30212783020
    TT Maposa2025012.535000
    Sikandar Raza401503.75110000
    RP Burl1090911000

Match Notes

Afghanistan 2nd innings Partnerships

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