Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh, made it to the semi-finals for the first time

AFG vs BAN: Afghanistan has created history in the T20 World Cup. By defeating Bangladesh, they have booked a ticket to the semi-finals for the first time. With this, Australia's hopes of playing the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2024 are over. It has had to be out of the tournament. Australia became the champion of the T20 World Cup in 2021. But, this time its journey has stopped in the Super-8 itself. This victory is historic for Afghanistan cricket. The biggest. Because this victory has brought Afghanistan one step closer to its dream of becoming the world champion.

Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh by 8 runs. The result of this match came out by Duckworth Lewis rule. Rain interrupted the match 4 times. After the rain for the fourth time, one over was cut in the innings of Bangladesh chasing the target and its target was also reduced. Afghanistan, playing first, had set a target of 116 runs in front of Bangladesh. But, when the overs were reduced to 19 overs under DLS, Bangladesh's innings got a new target of 114 runs.

Afghanistan created history with Rashid-Naveen's bowling

This is the first time that Afghanistan's team has booked a ticket to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. They bowled out Bangladesh's innings for 105 runs and took the match in their hands. Captain Rashid Khan led Afghanistan from the front in defending 114 runs against Bangladesh. He took 4 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs in the match. Apart from Rashid, Naveen-ul-Haq's bowling was also amazing. He also followed the captain's footsteps and took 4 wickets and brought Bangladesh to its knees.

Bangladesh's top order faltered in front of Afghanistan

Earlier, two big batsmen of Bangladesh could not even open their account against Afghanistan. One of them was Shakib Al Hasan and the other was their opener Tanjid Hasan. Apart from them, captain Shanto also could not do anything special against Afghanistan. He scored just 5 runs facing 5 balls. When the game resumed after the rain stopped, Soumya Sarkar also did not last long and was out after scoring 10 runs off 10 balls.

Afghanistan did a great job

Liton Das batted well in the match for Bangladesh. He stood at one end and did not let the wicket fall. But the rest of the batsmen could not do well. Only Soumya Sarkar, Liton Das and Tauheed Hridoy could reach double figures. Litus Das completed his half-century in 41 balls. He could not make Bangladesh win. He remained not out after scoring 54 runs. Rashid Khan proved to be the biggest hero for Afghanistan. He took 4 wickets for 23 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Naveen Ul Haq took two wickets. Gulbadin Naib and Fazalhaq Farooqui took one wicket each.

Gurbaz-Zadran played slow innings

Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim started very slowly for the Afghan team. Gurbaz scored 43 runs in 55 balls. Zadran scored 18 runs in 29 balls. Apart from these two, the other batsmen could not do much. Azmatullah Umarzai scored 10 runs. Captain Rashid Khan definitely played many big strokes and because of him the Afghan team was able to cross the 100-run mark. He scored 19 runs in 10 balls, which included three sixes. Afghanistan scored 115 in 20 overs. For Bangladesh, Rishad Hussain took the maximum of three wickets.