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New Zealand vs Afghanistan T20 World Cup 2024: Afghanistan has defeated New Zealand players in the T20 World Cup 2024. Afghanistan has achieved a historic victory in the Afghanistan vs New Zealand match played at Providence Stadium.
New Zealand's team was out for just 75 runs and Afghanistan won by 84 runs. This is Afghanistan's first historic win against New Zealand in a T20 match. Afghanistan has defeated New Zealand in 5 international matches. Whereas it defeated New Zealand for the first time in a T20 World Cup match.
New Zealand won the toss
New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl. In which Afghanistan set a target of 159 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the New Zealand team could score only 75 runs.
Aggressive bowling-batting
The hero of Afghanistan's victory was Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who scored 80 runs in 56 balls. He was the best player of the match. Ibrahim Zadran scored 44 runs. Afghanistan's bowlers Fazalhaq Farooqi and captain Rashid Khan took 4 wickets each. Farooqi is the first bowler from Afghanistan to take more than 4 wickets in a T20 match.
Special moments of Afghanistan
In this match, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (80 runs, 56 balls, 5 fours and 5 sixes) and Ibrahim Zadran (44 runs, 41 balls, 3 fours, 2 sixes) scored 103 runs for the first wicket for Afghanistan. After Zadran was out, Azmatullah Umarzai scored 22 runs in 13 balls. But later the wickets of the Afghanistan team kept falling. In this way, they could only score 159/6 runs in 20 overs. For New Zealand, Trent Boult and Matt Henry got 2-2 wickets. While Lockie Ferguson got 1 success.
new zealand special moments
The New Zealand team, which came out to chase 160 runs, was spoilt by the Afghanistan bowlers. On the very first ball of the first over of the New Zealand innings, Finn Allen was clean bowled by Fazalhaq Farooqi on a brilliant inswing ball.
The Kiwi batsmen of New Zealand were continuously out on the lines of 'Tu Chal Main Aaya'. Captain Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi got New Zealand out for 75 runs in just 15.2 overs.
For Afghanistan, Farooqi produced dangerous figures of 3.2-0-17-4. Captain Rashid Khan also bowled aggressively and took 4 wickets for 17 runs in 4 overs. Experienced Mohammad Nabi also took 2 wickets for just 16 runs in 4 overs.
Lowest score by a Full Member country in T20 World Cup
55 – England vs West Indies, Dubai, 2021
60 – New Zealand vs Sri Lanka, Chittagong, 2014
70 – Bangladesh vs New Zealand, Kolkata, 2016
72 – Bangladesh vs Australia, Dubai, 2021
75 – New Zealand v Afghanistan, Providence, 2024
Biggest margin (runs) of Afghanistan team in T20 World Cup.
130 vs Scotland, Sharjah, 2021
125 vs Uganda, Providence, 2024
84 vs New Zealand, Providence, 2024*
62 vs Namibia, Abu Dhabi, 2021
Best bowling by a captain in T20 World Cup
4/17 – Rashid Khan v New Zealand, Providence, 2024*
4/20 – Daniel Vettori v India, Johannesburg, 2007
4/20 – Zeeshan Maqsood vs Papua New Guinea, Emirates, 2021