An important Super-8 match was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh today in the T20 World Cup 2024. Afghanistan has become the second team from Group-1 to reach the semi-finals along with India. This match between Bangladesh and Afghanistan was very exciting. Afghanistan is also being accused of cheating during this match. Many posts are also going viral on social media regarding this.
What did Afghanistan do by cheating?
Actually, when Bangladesh was batting, it rained again during 11.4 overs. After this, Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott signaled the players to slow down the game from outside the field. After this, Gulbuddin Naib suffered a muscle strain and the match was stopped for a few minutes. After this, the match was also stopped due to rain. The reaction of the Bangladeshi batsman on Gulbuddin's injury is also going viral.
Actually, when the rain came, Bangladesh's score was 81/7 and if the match was not completed due to rain, then according to the DLS system, Afghanistan would have won the match and reached the semi-finals directly. Not only this, Gulbuddin came back to the field as soon as the match started after the rain stopped. Now the post of this act of Gulbuddin is going viral on social media.
Favorable situation
An exciting match was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh in Super-8 today. In this match, Afghanistan batted first and scored 115 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Afghanistan's bowlers defended this small target. The team's bowlers dismissed Bangladesh for 105 runs in 17.5 overs. The match was shortened by 1 over due to rain. Bangladesh had to score 114 runs in 19 overs as per Duckworth Lewis rule to win.