In the 5 matches played so far in the T20 World Cup 2024 being jointly hosted by West Indies and America, the smaller teams have definitely impressed everyone with their performance. The 5th match of this tournament was played between Afghanistan and Uganda in Guyana, West Indies, in which the Afghan team definitely made a great start to the tournament by winning the match by 125 runs, but the Ugandan team also impressed everyone with its bowling performance. At one time, the Afghanistan team did not lose a single wicket till the score of 154 in this match, but even after that they were able to reach only a score of 183 in 20 overs. A brilliant bowling performance was seen from Uganda in the last 6 overs.
Uganda became the first team to do this in T20 World Cup
In the history of T20 World Cup, Uganda has become the first team to not allow the opposition team to hit a single boundary in the last 6 overs of the innings in the entire match of 20-20 overs. Afghanistan’s team hit the last boundary during their innings in the 14th over of this match. After this, the Afghan team was able to score only 31 runs in the last 6 overs. In the T20 World Cup, many champion teams have not been able to do what Uganda’s team has done in its very first match in the history of the tournament. This has been seen for the second time in T20 International, before this in the first match of the T20 series played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Colombo ground in 2009, the Kiwi team did not allow Sri Lanka to hit a single boundary in the last 6 overs of the innings. Captain Masaba and Cosmas Kayvuta bowled for Uganda, who took 2-2 wickets each. In this match, while chasing 184 runs, the Ugandan team was all out for just 58 runs in 16 overs.
Afghanistan team reached the top of its group
With this big win against Uganda, Afghanistan has reached the top of their group with 2 points, with a net run rate of 6.250. The host West Indies team is in second place in the points table of this group with 2 points, with a net run rate of 0.411. The next match of Group C will be played between Uganda and Papua New Guinea on June 6 at 5 am Indian time.
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