Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 19 (ANI): A commanding all-round efficiency powered Afghanistan to a dominant 82-run victory over Canada of their ICC Males’s T20 World Cup conflict in Chennai on Thursday.
Driving on Ibrahim Zadran’s incredible knock and a medical bowling show led by Mohammad Nabi, Afghanistan outplayed Canada in all departments to safe a complete win.
Put into bat, Afghanistan’s opening pair as soon as once more began effectively, placing on 47 runs. Nevertheless, star batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz fell for 30, and Afghanistan slipped to 49/2 within the energy play.
Ibrahim Zadran led the Afghanistan rebuild with a gritty half-century, his second successive fifty on the World Cup. His 95-run partnership with Sediqullah Atal (44) gave Afghanistan the proper platform to launch the ultimate few overs.
Carrying the bat by means of, Zadran scored his private finest knock of 95 off 56, which can also be the best rating by an Afghanistan participant on this version of the World Cup. In a well-paced innings, he struck seven fours and 5 sixes. Afghanistan posted a difficult rating of 200/4 in 20 overs.
For Canada, Jaskarandeep Singh was essentially the most profitable bowler and ended with 3/52 in 4 overs.
Chasing 201, the final match centurion, Yuvraj Samra departed for 17 runs off 14 balls, with three fours by off-spinner Mohammad Nabi.
Captain Dilpreet Bajwa (13) was clear bowled by Mujeeb Ur Rahman, and Navneet Dhailwal departed after a five-ball duck to Azmatullah Omarzai. Canada crawled to 34/3 in six overs.
Wickets continued to fall for Canada after the facility play. Mohammad Nabi eliminated Nicholas Kirton (20) throughout the eighth over, and wicketkeeper-batter Shreyas Movva (2) was dismissed to Rashid Khan within the subsequent over as Canada reached 48/5 in 9 overs.
Saad Bin Zafar (28), Dilon Heyliger (3), Jaskaran Singh (7*) and Ansh Patel (2*) additionally had forgetfull day as Canada crawled to 118/8 in 20 overs, dropping the one-sided contest by 82 runs.
For Afghanistan, Mohammad Nabi (4/7), captain Rashid Khan (2/19), Azmatullah Omarzai (1/18) and Mujeeb Ur Rahman (1/23) had been among the many wicket takers. (ANI)
