Super shot to finish! Full ball on off stump, Azmat crashes it over mid-off, and it crashes into the advertising hoardings on the bounce!
Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, 2nd T20I at Harare, ZIM vs AFG, Oct 31 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary
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2nd T20I, Harare, October 31, 2025, Afghanistan tour of Zimbabwe
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end of over 1815 runs
AFG: 129/3CRR: 7.16Â
Azmatullah Omarzai25 (13b 5x4)
Ibrahim Zadran57 (51b 7x4)
Richard Ngarava 4-0-35-0
Tinotenda Maposa 2-0-25-0
Right, that's all we have from our live coverage of this game this evening. On behalf of Alagappan, Harshith and Chandan, this is Aaditya Narayan signing off. thank you, stay safe, goodbye!
The player of the match is Rashid Khan for his three wickets. He gives his player of the match to Abdollah Ahmadzai
"He's going to have a bright future for Afghanistan. So happy for him. This is a positive motivation for him. To welcome the youngsters as well as possible for him to deliver his skill and talent, so far he's enjoying it, he's loving it. Looking forward to seeing more of him. I felt I needed to bowl at those stages where the team needed me to take a couple of wickets. With that, we brought the score down to 125. We are in a kind of situation where we will struggle, we will have tough times, we learn from that. The big thing is the World Cup coming up. Losses come, but as long as we learn from it and improve. The finger is still bleeding, I'll have an X-Ray tomorrow, so we'll see."
Sikandar Raza: This team needs my runs, unfortunately today I got out when I was set. So I'll have a long hard look at myself. This isn't us. I sent a message to the dressing room that this was a 145-150 wicket. They chased it with two overs to spare, but we'd have set different fields if we'd gotten to 145-150. We have defended this total and lower than that against better teams. The guys tried really well. More often than not, it's very tough to defend. I cannot fault the boys for effort and energy and attitude. What we need to work is not to be scared to throw the first punch. I think we have to remind each other to not second guess ourselves, and try and be aggressive and positive.
Time for the presentation now...
4:34pm: Well, that's that. Afghanistan's seventh series win against Zimbabwe. Set up by the bowlers, finished off superbly in the chase by Ibrahim Zadran. Gurbaz went off on a train in the powerplay, but that didn't go on too long. Atal and Darwish didn't score too many, but at no point were Afghanistan under any pressure in that chase. They got 54 in the powerplay. Then went 43 balls without a boundary. And they've still finished it off with two overs to spare.
17.6
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah, FOUR runs
17.5
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah, FOUR runs
Full and wide, Azmat slams a drive square on the offside and into the boundary. Now the scores are level.
17.4
1
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run
Back of a length ball on off stump. Steered to backward point. Misfield allows the batters a single.
17.3
1
Ngarava to Azmatullah, 1 run
Length ball on off stump, driven out to sweeper cover.
17.2
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah, FOUR runs
Laced through the covers. Full and wide of off stump, Azmat gives himself room by moving his front foot out of the way, and cracks it to the right of extra cover.
17.1
1
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run
Full and wide, driven to sweeper cover.
end of over 1712 runs
AFG: 114/3CRR: 6.70 • RRR: 4.00 • Need 12 runs from 18b
Azmatullah Omarzai12 (9b 2x4)
Ibrahim Zadran55 (49b 7x4)
Tinotenda Maposa 2-0-25-0
Richard Ngarava 3-0-20-0
16.6
4
Maposa to Azmatullah, FOUR runs
Emphatic pull shot from Azmat! Short ball against from Maposa, Azmat waits for it and belts it over midwicket.
16.5
1
Maposa to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run
Short ball again, pulled nicely to deep backward square leg.
16.4
4
Maposa to Ibrahim Zadran, FOUR runs
Short ball again, Ibrahim shovels this behind square on the legside. Fine leg is up, so that's a safe shot. Exactly the treatment that kind of ball deserved.
16.3
2
Maposa to Ibrahim Zadran, 2 runs
Ibrahim goes to 50, not without risk on this occasion. Unfurls the pull shot, but doesn't quite strike it well enough. Finds the gap between deep midwicket and long-on though.
16.2
•
Maposa to Ibrahim Zadran, no run
Back of a length around off stump, Ibrahim backs away and mistimes one to extra cover.
16.1
1
Maposa to Azmatullah, 1 run
Length ball on off stump, Azmat looks to dance down and loft it over mid-off, but gets a thick outside edge, as the ball dribbles through to third.
end of over 167 runs
AFG: 102/3CRR: 6.37 • RRR: 6.00 • Need 24 runs from 24b
Azmatullah Omarzai7 (7b 1x4)
Ibrahim Zadran48 (45b 6x4)
Richard Ngarava 3-0-20-0
Brad Evans 3-0-21-2
15.6
1
Ngarava to Azmatullah, 1 run
Back of a length ball around off stump, bunted out to deep backward square leg.
15.5
•
Ngarava to Azmatullah, no run
Slower bouncer comes off the wicket much later than Azmat expects. He goes through with his pull shot about two time zones before the ball passes him.
15.4
1
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run
Wide yorker, Ibrahim backs away and gets so far away from the ball that he has to reach out to make some kind of contact with the ball.
15.3
•
Ngarava to Ibrahim Zadran, no run
Back of a length around off stump, worked to backward point.
15.2
1
Ngarava to Azmatullah, 1 run
Short and wide again, Azmat goes for a similar shot, but the bottom edge trickles through to third.
15.1
4
Ngarava to Azmatullah, FOUR runs
Crashed away in front of square on the offside. Short and wide from Ngarava, Azmat laces a flat-batted shot in to the left of Burl at extra cover.
31 off 30. Should be straightforward. But funnier things have happened in this sport, not least in a T20 World Cup final.
end of over 156 runs • 1 wicket
AFG: 95/3CRR: 6.33 • RRR: 6.20 • Need 31 runs from 30b
Azmatullah Omarzai1 (3b)
Ibrahim Zadran47 (43b 6x4)
Brad Evans 3-0-21-2
Ryan Burl 1-0-9-0
14.6
1
Evans to Azmatullah, 1 run
Good length around off stump, worked to sweeper cover as Azmat is off the mark.
14.5
•
Evans to Azmatullah, no run
Oh that's a beauty from Evans. Hits the pitch hard on a hard length around off stump. It rises more than Azmat expects, and whizzes past the outside edge of his bat.
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