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Afghanistan has made it to the Super 8 of the T20 World Cup. When a strong team was out. Afghanistan qualified for the Super 8 by defeating Papua New Guinea by 7 wickets. Afghanistan is at number 1 in the points table in Group C. It has won all the three matches played so far. Now their last match is against West Indies. Which has already qualified for the Super 8.
With Afghanistan's victory, New Zealand's team
Afghanistan is out of the T20 World Cup 2024 tournament. Afghanistan is in Group C in the T20 World Cup. In this group, Afghanistan and West Indies have qualified for the Super 8. While Uganda, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand are out.
Papua New Guinea team was all out for 95 runs
Talking about today's match, Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bowl first. In the match played at Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad, West Indies, Papua New Guinea was all out in 19.5 overs. Wicketkeeper Kiplin Doriga scored the highest 27 runs for Papua New Guinea. Apart from this, no batsman could do anything special and the team was all out for 95 runs.
Afghanistan's innings
Moving forward, Fazalhaq Farooqi took 3 wickets while Naveen ul Haq took 2 wickets for the Afghan team. Noor Ahmed also dismissed a batsman. 4 batsmen of Papua New Guinea were run out. The Afghan team had a bad start while chasing the target of 96 runs. Opener Ibrahim Zadran was dismissed without opening the account but Gulbadin Naib scored an unbeaten 49 runs and the team achieved the target at the loss of 3 wickets. Gulbadin won the match by hitting a six.
The Afghanistan team has been undefeated in the group so far. Won all three matches. In the first match, they won against Uganda by 125 runs. While in the second match, they defeated a strong team like New Zealand by 84 runs. As far as New Zealand is concerned, it lost the first match to Afghanistan while the second match was lost to West Indies by 13 runs. In this way, the dream of the New Zealand team to go to the Super 8 was also fulfilled.