West Indies vs Afghanistan ICC T20 World Cup 2024: West Indies and Afghanistan have already qualified for the Super-8 stage. West Indies beat Afghanistan by 104 runs. Afghanistan were bowled out for 114 in reply to West Indies' 218.
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West Indies vs Afghanistan ICC T20 World Cup 2024: West Indies and Afghanistan have already qualified for the Super-8 stage. Now West Indies has defeated Afghanistan team by 104 runs in the group stage of T20 World Cup 2024. Nicholas Pooran and Johnson Charles were the standout performers for West Indies. It is because of these players that the West Indies team has been able to win.
Johnson Charles was on 43 off 27 balls when he reached his half-century. He was then dismissed by Naveen-ul-Haq. After his dismissal, the responsibility of scoring runs was taken by Nicholas Pooran and Sai Hope. Pooran presented a sample of explosive batting. But he missed his century by two runs. He scored 98 off 53 balls with 6 fours and 8 sixes. Rovman Powell and Shai Hope scored 26 and 25 runs respectively.
The West Indies batsmen performed very well against Afghanistan. In the match, Johnson Charles and Nicholas Pooran performed well and showed their batting skills. Both players scored 92 runs in the powerplay. This is the highest powerplay score by any team in the history of the T20 World Cup. No one had ever scored so many runs in the powerplay before. In the T20 World Cup 2014, the Netherlands scored 91 runs in the powerplay against Ireland. Now West Indies has broken this record after 10 years.
Chasing a big target, the Afghan team had a very bad start. Rahmanullah Gurbaz departs after scoring zero runs. The team tried to keep Ibrahim Zadran on the wicket, but he could not play a big innings. He scored 38 runs. Apart from Zadran, no other player could play a big innings. Azmatullah Umarzai scored 23 runs. Afghanistan were bowled out for 114 in 20 overs. For West Indies, Akeal Hosein and Gudakesh Motie took 2-2 wickets each. Obed McCoy took 3 wickets.
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