If anybody would have mentioned that Afghanistan would have crushed two World Cup champions, a present and one former, 18 days into the match, they might have been laughed at. But the underdogs have actually began to chunk and after England, their second sufferer within the ongoing ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup was Pakistan, who’re struggling to place a whole efficiency collectively within the match.
Afghanistan are actually one of many real contenders for the semifinals having crushed two robust groups and the win towards Pakistan in Chennai, by chasing a 282-run complete will probably be coming of age of this younger facet, who’s looking for its presence on the cricketing map for the final eight years. And Rashid Khan, one of many stars of this Afghanistan facet, celebrated the victory in model by dancing alongside former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan.
During the Afghanistan group’s lap of honour, Rashid noticed Pathan, who was busy in broadcasting for the official broadcaster. Both shared a heat embrace earlier than breaking into dancing because the video has gone viral on the web. Irfan whereas sharing the photographs of the dance steered that Rashid saved his promise of Afghanistan beating Pakistan and he saved his promise of them dancing collectively.
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After having Pakistan at 206/5 on the 42-over mark, Afghanistan would have felt that they gave away 20 too many in the long run.
But it appeared like a champion group got here out to chase the overall – skilled, calculative and simply merely good. Rahmanullah Gurbaz gave the right platform with a quickfire 65 and Ibrahim Zadran continued on to smash 87. He would have been disenchanted to take his facet to the door however not throughout it.
However, the Afghans weren’t going to again down at the moment as skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi and Rahmat Shah with an unbeaten 77 took their facet house with none discomfort. They cruised to victory as not for one second did they let Pakistan come again into the sport after they misplaced each the openers.Â
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan have received two video games out of 5 every however who could be in higher place at the moment? Your guess is nearly as good as mine…
