AFG vs WI
West Indies vs Afghanistan ICC T20 World Cup 2024: The West Indies and Afghanistan teams have already qualified for the Super-8. Now West Indies has defeated the Afghanistan team by 104 runs in the group stage of T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, Nicholas Pooran and Johnson Charles performed brilliantly for West Indies. It is because of these players that the West Indies team has been successful in winning.
West Indies team scored 92 runs in the powerplay
West Indies batsmen performed brilliantly against Afghanistan. Johnson Charles and Nicholas Pooran performed brilliantly in the match and showed their batting skills. Both these players scored 92 runs in the powerplay. Which is the highest score of any team in the powerplay in the history of T20 World Cup. Before this, no one was able to score such a big score in the powerplay. In the T20 World Cup 2014, Netherlands scored 91 runs in the powerplay against Ireland. Now West Indies has broken this record after 10 years.
Highest score in powerplay in T20 World Cup
92/1 – West Indies vs Afghanistan (2024)
91/1 – Netherlands vs Ireland (2014)
89/3 – England vs South Africa (2016)
83/0 – South Africa vs England (2016)
Nicholas Pooran missed a century by 2 runs
When Johnson Charles was moving towards his half-century and was playing after scoring 43 runs in 27 balls, he was dismissed by Naveen Ul Haq. After his dismissal, Nicholas Pooran and Shai Hope took the responsibility of scoring runs. Puran showed explosive batting. But he missed his century by two runs. He scored 98 runs in 53 balls, which included 6 fours and 8 sixes. Shai Hope contributed 25 runs and Rovman Powell contributed 26 runs.
Afghanistan batsmen flopped
The Afghanistan team, which came out to chase a big target, had a very bad start when Rahmanullah Gurbaz got out after scoring zero runs. Ibrahim Zadran tried to stay on the wicket, but he could not play a big innings. He contributed 38 runs. Apart from Zadran, no other player could play a big innings. Azmatullah Umarzai definitely scored 23 runs. The Afghanistan team could not even play the full 20 overs and was all out for 114 runs. West Indies’ Aqeel Hussain and Gudakesh Moti took 2-2 wickets each. Obed McCoy took 3 wickets.
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