Ibrahim Zadran’s 177 and Five Wickts of Azmatullah Omarzai helped Afghanistan take England out of the Champions League trophy with an exciting victory of eight races on Wednesday.
Afghanistan registered 325-7 in a virtual draw in Lahore and then launched England by 317 in 49.5 overs to stay alive in the race for a semifinal place, while England has no chance of reaching the last four.
Joe Root’s 120 were in vain when England lost regular wicks to lose his second consecutive hate against Afghans after his surprise defeats in the 2023 World Cup in India.
Needing 13 of the last six balls with a wickt in his hand, Pace Bowler Omarzai kept calm to give only four races and discard Adil Rashid.
Playing under the cloud of boycott calls of some British politicians for the difficult situation of women in the nation governed by the Taliban, Afghanistan chose to hit in an attempt to recover from their initial defeat against South Africa.
But soon they went to 37-3 within nine overs before Zadran gathered the tickets with an association of 103 in the fourth Wickt with Captain hashmatullah Shahidi, who made 40.
Zadran later added 111 for the sixth Wickt with Mohammad Nabi, who hit 40 in 24 balls.
Zadran, 23, disarmed the bowling of England and exceeded his previous 162 before in his blow of 146 balls with 12 four and six six.
Not only did he break his own record for the highest individual ODI score in Afghanistan, but also a tournament record, days after the defeat of Ben Duckett at the opening of England before Australia.
‘One of the best tickets’
“I think it was one of the best hate tickets I’ve seen,” Shahidi said.
Mark Wood’s injury in the middle of his room over England hindered when the rapid bowling player achieved only eight overs and left with a knee problem.
In response, England lost two first wickts to have 30-2 after the Senior Mohammad Nabi spinner hit his first ball to send Jamie Smith for nine.
Duckett tried to return a blow to a 68 -ranks stalls to stabilize the persecution, but Rashid Khan caught the left -hander LBW for 38.
Harry Brook seemed fluid in his 25, but fell caught and threw Nabi in a soft dismissal to put England in trouble.
Root kept calm and together with the patron Jos Buttler, who took the time to settle before hitting two six, he put 83 races to maintain the persecution.
Afghanistan bowling players kept the pressure with knit balls and Omarzai took the pattern for 38 from a upper edge trapped in Deep Square-Leg and Liam Livingstone departed shortly after.
But Root remained when he reached his first ton Odi in almost five years and 37 entries and with Jamie Overton he was still driving regular limits.
But Omarzai obtained the precious Wickt since he had the root trapped.
“He played an incredible entry tonight. The way to handle the pressure in an execution drop, ”said Buttler.
“I needed one of the other six best batters to keep him and take the deepest game.”
The pendulum continued to balance when Omarzai dismissed Overton, but although the late thrust of Jofra Archer, England, fell like the third team to be eliminated in the tournament of eight nations after the hosts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
