T20 World Cup 2024: Afghanistan Crushes Bangladesh to Reach Semis, Australia out| India-England and Afghanistan-South Africa face to face in the semi

AFG vs BAN T20 World Cup 2024: The Afghanistan team made history under the captaincy of Rashid Khan at the St. Vincent Stadium in the West Indies. Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh and made it to the semi-finals for the first time in World Cup history.

With Afghanistan’s victory, Australia’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals ended. Australia won only one of the 3 matches in the Super-8 and has 2 points. Afghanistan won 2 matches and entered the semi-finals with 4 points.

Now, Afghanistan will play their semi-final match against South Africa on 27th June in Trinidad at 6 AM. Team India will play their semi-final against England in Guyana at 8 PM on the same day.

In today’s match against Bangladesh, Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to bat first. Afghanistan gave a target of 115 runs. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored the highest score of 43 runs. Bangladesh’s wickets kept falling continuously while chasing the runs. Liton Das was the only one fighting. Liton scored 54 runs, but no batsman could stay at the other end. Bangladesh’s team was all out for 105 runs.

Afghanistan pacer Naveen Ul Haq took 2 consecutive wickets in the 18th over and won the match in Afghanistan’s favour. Captain Rashid also took 4 wickets in this match.

Liton Das kept fighting till the end, but the rest of the batsmen did not support him

Actually, rain kept interfering in this match. After this, under the Duckworth Lewis rule, Bangladesh got a target of 114 runs in 19 overs. But Bangladesh was all out for 105 runs in 17.5 overs. Opener Liton Das remained firm till the end for Bangladesh, but failed to bring victory. Liton Das scored 54 runs not out in 49 balls. He hit 5 fours and 1 six in his innings. But the other batsmen did not support him. 9 batsmen of Bangladesh could not cross the double digit mark.

Rashid Khan and Naveen Ul Haq shine

For Afghanistan, captain Rashid Khan and Naveen-ul-Haq took the maximum of 4 wickets each. Apart from this, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Gulbadin Naib got 1-1 success.

Earlier, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to bat. Afghanistan, who came to bat first, had a good start. Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran added 59 runs. But after this, Afghan batsmen kept returning to the pavilion at regular intervals. Rahmanullah Gurbaz played an innings of 43 runs off 55 balls. He hit 3 fours and 1 six in his innings. At the same time, Ibrahim Zadran contributed 18 runs off 29 balls. However, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan finished in a brilliant manner by scoring 19 runs off 10 balls in the last overs. In this way, the Afghan team scored 115 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs.

Rishad Hossain was the most successful bowler for Bangladesh. Rishad Hossain took 3 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman got 1-1 success.

T20 World Cup 2024: Groups

T20 World Cup 2024: Super 8s

After the group stage, the top two teams in each group will be placed into two groups of four teams in the Super 8 stage. This will be played as a single round-robin, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the knockout stage. If they advance from the group stage, seeded teams will be placed in pre-determined positions, regardless of whether they finish first or second in their group.

T20 World Cup 2024: Knockout stage

T20 World Cup 2024: Knockout Schedule