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Under the captaincy of Rashid Khan, the Afghanistan team defeated the New Zealand team by 75 runs on Saturday, June 8. With this victory, the team has created history. This is the first time Afghanistan has defeated New Zealand. Rashid Khan played an important role in the team's victory. He took responsibility and led the team from the front. Rashid bowled brilliantly in this match and gave only 17 runs and took 4 wickets in his four-over spell against New Zealand. With this, he has created history in the T20 World Cup.
Rashid broke this record
On the basis of Rashid Khan's brilliant bowling, the Afghanistan team managed to defeat New Zealand by a huge margin of 84 runs. During this, he took 4 wickets. With this, Rashid Khan has become the third captain to take 4 wickets in the T20 World Cup. Earlier, only New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori and Oman captain Zeeshan Maqsood could achieve this feat. Not only this, with this performance, Rashid Khan also became the captain with the best bowling in an innings of the T20 World Cup. He broke Daniel Vettori's 17-year-old record. Daniel Vettori took 4 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs against India in the 2007 T20 World Cup. However, in 2021, Oman captain Zeeshan Maqsood equaled this record but could not break it.
Afghanistan is close to reaching Super-8
Captain Rashid Khan's brilliant performance against New Zealand is now close to qualifying for the Super-8 of the T20 World Cup. Afghanistan is in Group C in the T20 World Cup. After defeating New Zealand, the team has reached the top of the points table by winning two matches. Now it has to face West Indies and Papua New Guinea. If they win even one match, then their entry into the Super-8 is almost certain. Now New Zealand will have to win the next three matches by a big margin to qualify for the Super-8 and one of those matches will be against West Indies. In such a situation, it is becoming difficult for them to qualify now.