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Afghanistan in the semi-finals: The race for the second qualifying team finally got interesting when India beat Australia in a thrilling encounter yesterday. However, within 12 hours, the debate was over and Afghanistan made it to the semi-finals by beating Bangladesh in the final match of the Super 8s.
Afghanistan has surprised the entire cricket world by creating history one after the other in the T20 World Cup. Afghanistan defeated former champions Australia and now Bangladesh on Tuesday to make it to the semi-finals of the mega event for the first time. Today the whole country is on the streets in joy due to this victory and achievement. With this, now India vs. England and South Africa vs. Afghanistan will clash for the final. Even if Afghanistan's tour ends here, the team will return to its country with its head held high.
Rashid got emotional
After the victory against Bangladesh, captain Rashid Khan also looked very emotional and spoke openly about this wonderful moment. The Afghan captain said that reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup is a dream for us. Overall, the main reason for reaching here was our start in this tournament. The defeat against New Zealand gave us confidence. I do not have words to express my feelings.
I would especially like to say one thing that the person who predicted our reaching the semi-finals was only and only Brian Lara and he is absolutely right. Rashid said that we were 15-20 runs behind. In such a situation, now it was just a matter of mood and morale. We knew that Bangladesh team would have to achieve the target in about 12 overs to reach the semi-finals and their batsmen would play big shots. We had to take advantage of this opportunity. We had to be clear on our plan. We tried everything that was in our hands. Rashid said, in the end every player performed brilliantly and we are in the semi-finals.
Responding to a question, Rashid said that our bowling is very strong especially in this format of cricket. We have a different bowler for each level. We started the tournament brilliantly. Rain kept hampering us against Bangladesh as well, but we were mentally on the field. We had to take ten wickets and this was the only way to reach the semi-finals and we are happy that we achieved this success.