Afghanistan’s dream run on the T20 World Cup was ended by South Africa, who handed the Asian crew a nine-wicket defeat within the first semi-final in Trinidad.
South Africa will tackle the winner of the opposite semi-final between India and England, which is able to occur later right now in Guyana.
South Africa’s tempo battery bowled out Afghanistan for simply 56 runs in simply 11.5 overs. This was Afghanistan’s lowest complete within the T20I format. A telling statistic of the match was that the very best scorer for Afghanistan have been extras — 13 runs — whereas Azmatullah Omarzai (10 runs) was the one batter to achieve double figures on the night time.
Marco Jansen (3-16), Kagiso Rabada (2-14) and Anrich Nortje (2-7) shared seven wickets between them. In the meantime, Tabraiz Shamsi additionally picked up three lower-order wickets.
Coming into chase, South Africa misplaced the wicket of Quinton de Kock within the second over for 5 runs however that mattered little within the bigger scheme of issues as Aiden Markram (23 not out) and Reeza Hendricks (29 not out) took management to take the Proteas residence.
Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan admitted that Afghanistan may have finished higher.
“I believe it was a troublesome night time for us as a crew and we may’ve finished higher than us. However circumstances didn’t allow us to do this however you need to be mentally prepared for any state of affairs. I assumed we didn’t bat effectively. We have been struggling when Mujeeb bought injured, however Nabi, Fazal…that made our job as a spinning unit simpler. The consistency in bowling was one thing pleasing for me. We got here right here earlier than the match and in the event you informed us we’d be enjoying the semi-final towards South Africa, we’d settle for that.
“Successful huge video games on this competitors…and sure we’re able to beating any facet. Subsequent time after we take part in a match like this, we may have the assumption. It’s about the way you handle your self in these strain conditions towards powerful groups. There may be plenty of arduous work to be finished, particularly within the center order. We must be aggressive and have somebody to take the innings deep. Now we have achieved some good outcomes however after we come again within the match, we have to do higher, particularly within the batting division.”
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