2024-06-05 20:59:29
18 runs not 5 wickets! When a group is chasing a goal of 184 runs, there isn’t any want to attend for the results of the match. However Uganda didn’t quit. Brian Masaba’s group remained on the wicket with their enamel clenched. Although they misplaced by an enormous margin of 125 runs, they confirmed their preventing spirit. And the Afghans began brilliantly.
At this time, Tuesday (June 4) on the Windfall Stadium in Guyana, Barbados, Afghanistan misplaced the toss and went into bat first. In reply, Uganda misplaced wickets at common intervals and had been bowled out for 58 runs with 24 balls to spare.
Uganda, who got here to play the World Cup for the primary time, fell within the face of the Afghan bowlers within the run chase. 5 wickets earlier than 20 runs. Ronak Patel (4) and Roger Mukasa (0) departed within the first over of Fazal Haque Farooqui. Then Mujib returned Simon Sesazi (4).
Within the fifth over, Naveen Ul Haq got here and despatched again Dinesh Nakrani (6). Alkesh Ramzani departed with none runs within the subsequent ball of the identical over. That is it! 5 wickets for 18 runs. Robinson Abhua and Riyazat Ali Shah began preventing from there. The pairing of the 2 lasts as much as 12 overs.
After that, Farooqui returned Riyazat to the assault. He performed an innings of 11 runs off 34 balls. In the identical over, Farooqui took 5 wickets for the primary time in his worldwide T20 profession, returning Avua (14) and Brian Masaba (0). Rashid Khan took the remaining two wickets and lowered Uganda to 58 runs.
Earlier, two Afghan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran attacked the Ugandan bowlers from the start. The 2 made the Ugandan bowlers the usual of the neighborhood. The 2 picked up 66 runs and not using a wicket within the powerplay. That is the sixth time that the 2 have scored fifty for Afghanistan.
Gurbaz took the eighth fifty for the nation in simply 28 balls with a single within the third ball of the ninth over whereas sustaining the sting of the assault. Afghanistan crossed the group 100 in 10 overs. Shortly after this, Ibrahim reached his fifty with 3 runs within the fourth ball of the twelfth over.
Gurbaz and Ibrahim crossed the group’s 150 runs within the fourteenth over. Within the subsequent over, Ibrahim bowled Masaba. This opener hit 9 fours and 1 six on the best way to play an innings of 70 runs off 46 balls. It broke the second-highest opening partnership in males’s T20 World Cup historical past (154).
Najibullah Zadran got here to the crease after Ibrahim’s departure. Nevertheless, Gurbaz couldn’t tie the pair as he was dismissed for 70 off 45 balls. After his departure, the Afghan batting collapsed. Najibullah (2), Mohammad Nabi (11) and Azmatullah Omarzai (5) departed one after the other. The Afghans couldn’t cross 2 hundred regardless of exhibiting their potential.