Afghanistan vs New Zealand Match Highlights
Afghanistan vs New Zealand Match Highlights: In a thrilling game of T20 cricket, the Afghanistan top order relished and yet again created history by beating New Zealand. This was one hell of a match where the dark horse of this competition came out on top with excellent batting performance and not to forget the bowling performance that cleaned up the Kiwis batter.
On a beautiful day, New Zealand who were playing their first match came out to play against the Afghan team. First after winning the toss, they decided to bowl where the Afghanistan openers Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran gave the perfect start. Both of them scored 103 runs before Ibrahim Zadran was dismissed by Matt Henry.
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Gurbaz was the standout player, he smashed 80 runs with five fours and five sixes. However, after the wicket of Gurbaz, the Kiwis made a good comeback and restricted Afghanistan to 159.
New Zealand Bowlers Fight Hard But Failed to Make Early Impact
After the onslaught from Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, and Azmatullah the rest of Afghanistan’s batsmen crumbled and were only able to score 60 runs in the last five overs. When compared to their first 15 overs they scored 102 runs, but it was the ending that cost Afghan few runs.
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New Zealand Batter Fail to Shine
Once New Zealand came out to bat it was a disaster where the wickets kept tumbling and the batters never really got going. Only Glenn Phillips (18) and Matt Henry (12) scored runs in double digits and that too was not above 20 runs.
Rashid Khan and Fazalhaq Farooqi picked up four wickets each and Mohammad Nabi picked up two wickets and that was it as New Zealand were crumbled down to 75 in 15.2 overs.
Afghanistan vs New Zealand Match Highlights
Gurbaz with the bat, while Rashid Khan and Fazalhaq Farooqi with the ball make history for Afghanistan in this T20 World Cup 2024. Now after losing the first game, the Kiwis are in last place in Group C, and Afghanistan after winning their first two games now stands in first place in Group C.
