Afghanistan won by 7 wickets with 9 balls left
Afghanistan won by 7 wickets and 9 balls left Afghanistan comes into the tournament with high confidence that they had played to the best of their abilities Both openers started and then get out the skipper that couldn’t put up a fight.
Ibrahim had Bangladeshi pacers and hit them to all the corners and even finished the proceeding with the big hit.
He remained unbeaten on 43 off just as17 balls and the 69-run stand between the two was enough for Afghanistan to win the game., Afghanistan needed 67 runs in 7 overs on the pitch that had a lot to offer the spinners when Najibullah Zadran walked out to the bat against Bangladesh in an important Asia cup group b match in Sharjah on Tuesday.
That the left-hander hasn’t started fluently, where he scored 1 off 4 balls and despite a couple of pf boundaries from his Partner Ibrahim Zadran, he required run rate kept climbing. And it was the ultimate ball of the 16th over which has set things in motion for Najibullah and the match started to slowly turn towards Afghanistan.
Where Bangladesh spinner Mahedi Hasan tried to bowl it wide outside of the off stump but Najibullah dragged it towards the mid-wicket and made a perfect connection that has been sending it deep into the stands at the beginning of the six-hitting spree.
In the next over Najibullah smashed Bangladesh’s death over his specialist Rahman for a couple of sixes. He hit a couple off Saifuddin in the 18th over to completely turn the match on its head.
Najibullah hit six off-spinner to finish off the match and took Afghanistan to the super stage of Asia cup 2022.
Najibullah went to the past former England Captain Eoin Morgan and Sri Lanka all-rounder Thisara Perera has to become the batter with most of his sixes in death over of a T20 run chase.
Najibullah was not the only world-beating feat which was achieved with his breathtaking hitting against Bangladesh. He has become the only cricketer to hit more than 50 sixes in overs in t20Is. He was currently Leading the pack with 53 sixes.
The wicket was a bit low so he tried to play straight he took a few balls and played natural games then after that he don’t look at the boundary, he look at the bowler and look to hit. Najibullah said after the match his hard work lead to Afghanistan’s victory.
Afghanistan has earlier beaten Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the tournament opener. The next match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh has to be a do-or-die for both sides as the winner will qualify for the super 4 stages.
It has been witnessed that another thriller of the game in the Asia cup. That was on the Verge of 1 of Najibullah Zadran has just powered Afghanistan into his super 4 flexing his muscles. His game was hanging on a knife’s edge but it was Afghanistan who made it back-to-back wins in his competition and it has done so very convincingly.
Bangladesh lost early wickets in the Power play as Mujeeb Rahman ran right through their top order and they were pushed onto the back foot. Shakib opted to bat first and it is almost instantly, the decision backfired. Hossain and Mahmudullah did manage to build up a stand and Mosaddek had played a gem of a knock to take both picked up 3 wickets each and which were simply sensational.
Which is a low target to chase down, all Afghanistan needed was 1 big stand and that came for the 4th wicket between Ibrahim and Najibullah with the latter taking the game completely away from the opposition and Afghanistan became the first team to qualify for the super 4 Phase.
Where Afghanistan has been selected for the super 4 Asia cup games, and working for the upcoming match and planning to win them with their hard work.
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