those are the winning runs. Afghanistan live to fight another day. West Indies, unbeaten until today, have been brought to their knees. This should give Afghanistan so much confidence, such a big boost. That's one out of three. Nervy alright, but they still got the job done in the end. The man to thank with the bat: Rahmat Shah.
West Indies vs Afghanistan, 21st Match, Super Sixes at Harare, Mar 15 2018 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RESULT
21st Match, Super Sixes, Harare, March 15, 2018, ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
197/8
(47.4/50 ov, T:198) 198/7
Afghanistan won by 3 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
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That's that from the commentary desk. Do join us tomorrow for more from the World Cup qualifiers. This is Shashank Kishore signing out. Do look out out for Akshay Gopalakrishnan's match bulletin.
Rashid Khan: Feeling happy. We didn't play well in the first round, but it's good to come back and start with a win. The bowlers did superbly to restrict a big team. It was nervous as the chase went on, we lost our way much like we did in the first round. I wanted to keep playing till the end, bat through. We knew we'd win if we did that.
Jason Holder: Credit to them, we let ourselves down. 230 would've been a good total. Later in the field, we were sloppy. With the bat, we had wickets in hand, a solid foundation but couldn't launch. We have to regroup and come back against Zimbabwe.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman is Player of the Match for his figures of 3 for 33. "This victory is to our people," he says through a translator. "I have no problem bowling with the new ball. I bowl with the new ball at training too, so I'm used to bowling in the powerplay. Nabi and Rashid have always supported me, the support of the senior players has been fantastic."
Jeevan Sanjay: "It is going to get tougher from here on out for West Indies! They will be facing Zimbabwe and Scotland in the coming days! If they lose even one of them, they would have to rely on other teams performing poorly to qualify."
A little closer than Afghanistan would've liked, but they'll take two points. They were cruising, but once again made it difficult for themselves with the loss of Rahmat. But the lower order held their nerve. On their part, West Indies were poor on the field, dropping two catches and missing a run-out.
Afghanistan nearly bottled what should have been a straightforward chase of 198, but the insurance provided by the brilliance of their spinners from earlier in the day just about bailed them out.
47.4
4
Paul to Sharafuddin, FOUR runs
47.3
2
Paul to Sharafuddin, 2 runs
swivels back and pulls to deep square leg, back for the second comfortably
47.1
•
Paul to Sharafuddin, no run
right into the blockhole, honing in towards the base of leg stump, somehow kept out
end of over 473 runs • 1 wicket
AFG: 192/7CRR: 4.08 • RRR: 2.00
Sharafuddin Ashraf1 (3b)
Rashid Khan13 (11b 1x4)
Jason Holder 10-0-39-3
Carlos Brathwaite 9-0-39-0
46.6
1
Holder to Sharafuddin, 1 run
driven firmly to sweeper cover
46.5
•
Holder to Sharafuddin, no run
beaten by a superb length ball that cuts back in from outside off
46.5
1w
Holder to Sharafuddin, 1 wide
banged in short outside off, he thought of the ramp but let this go. Wide signalled. Way over his head, good call.
46.4
•
Holder to Sharafuddin, no run
length outside off, hint of away movement, left alone
Five men inside the ring
46.3
W
Holder to Gulbadin, OUT
sees this in his arc, looks for the glory hit but can only hit this straight to long-on. Powell makes no mistake this time.
Gulbadin Naib c Powell b Holder 10 (14b 1x4 0x6 33m) SR: 71.42
46.2
1
Holder to Rashid Khan, 1 run
full and sliding into the pads, flicked uppishly to deep square
46.1
•
Holder to Rashid Khan, no run
touch full on off stump, defended.
end of over 4611 runs
AFG: 189/6CRR: 4.10 • RRR: 2.25
Gulbadin Naib10 (13b 1x4)
Rashid Khan12 (9b 1x4)
Carlos Brathwaite 9-0-39-0
Jason Holder 9-0-36-2
45.6
•
Brathwaite to Gulbadin, no run
floats this full on off, squeezed back to the bowler. Holder roars back at the batsman in anger. Gulbadin sees the funny side of it.
45.5
3
Brathwaite to Rashid Khan, 3 runs
punched wide of backward point, now Powell has to run all the way around to his right, then slide, tumble and pull it back in. Target within touching distance now for Afghanistan. Down to single-digits
45.4
4
Brathwaite to Rashid Khan, FOUR runs
dropped at third man by Rovman Powell! Short outside off, Rashid swayed inside the line and helped it over. Powell covered ground but couldn't hold on even as he was on the move
45.3
2
Brathwaite to Rashid Khan, 2 runs
neat little flick into the deep midwicket region, sensible stuff
45.2
1
Brathwaite to Gulbadin, 1 run
stands tall and punches this short of length delivery to long-on
45.1
1
Brathwaite to Rashid Khan, 1 run
right into the blockhole on middle, turned to deep midwicket
end of over 458 runs
AFG: 178/6CRR: 3.95 • RRR: 4.00
Gulbadin Naib9 (11b 1x4)
Rashid Khan2 (5b)
Jason Holder 9-0-36-2
Keemo Paul 8-1-23-2
44.6
•
Holder to Gulbadin, no run
punched back to the bowler
44.5
4
Holder to Gulbadin, FOUR runs
too short, he swivels back and powerfully pulls this to the deep backward square leg boundary. Struck this off the middle. Rolled his wrists nicely to keep this down
If you're wondering what happened off the first ball, Bishoo misfielded at cover, so what should've just been one turned out to be three
44.4
•
Holder to Gulbadin, no run
right behind the line of this length ball as he defends
44.3
1
Holder to Rashid Khan, 1 run
squirts this with an angled bat to third man
Holder seems to have some discomfort. Hamstring niggle?
44.2
•
Holder to Rashid Khan, no run
short on middle, he ducks under it
44.1
3
Holder to Gulbadin, 3 runs
punched to cover where Bishoo misfields to concede two extra runs
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