Afghanistan vs New Zealand T20 2024: Summary, Scores, Goals, Highlights, Stats,League, Game Analysis, Points, Next Fixtures And Everything To Know
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Match Overview
- Date: June 7, 2024
- Venue: Guyana National Stadium
First Innings: Afghanistan
- Total Runs: Afghanistan posted a competitive 159 runs for 6 wickets in their allotted 20 overs.
- Top Performers:
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz: His explosive 80 runs off 56 balls anchored the innings.
- Ibrahim Zadran: Contributed a valuable 44 runs off 41 balls.
- Bowling Highlights:
- New Zealand’s Trent Boult and Matt Henry each took 2 wickets to keep the pressure on.
Second Innings: New Zealand
- Total Runs: New Zealand faced a daunting target but managed only 75 runs for 10 wickets in just 15.2 overs.
- Top Scorer: Glenn Phillips fought hard with 18 runs.
- Bowling Dominance:
- Afghanistan’s bowlers were relentless:
- Fazalhaq Farooqi: A remarkable 4 wickets for 17 runs.
- Rashid Khan: Also claimed 4 wickets for 17 runs.
- Afghanistan’s bowlers were relentless:
Result
Afghanistan secured a convincing 84-run victory over New Zealand.
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Player of the Match
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz for his explosive batting display.
Match statistics
Afghanistan secured their first-ever victory against New Zealand in international cricket. Prior to this match, New Zealand had won all four previous encounters (three times at the ODI World Cup and once in the T20 World Cup). This loss marks New Zealand’s first defeat against a team outside the top eight full-member nations in men’s World Cup (ODI or T20I).
New Zealand had played 39 World Cup matches against non-top-eight teams, winning 37 and experiencing one washout. New Zealand’s 84-run margin of defeat against Afghanistan is their largest while chasing in the men’s T20 World Cup. Their previous biggest margin was 59 runs against Sri Lanka in 2014 (while chasing a target of 120).
Afghanistan has now won three T20 World Cup games by a margin of 80-plus runs, the most by any team. New Zealand’s total of 75 runs against Afghanistan is their second-lowest in the men’s T20 World Cup. Their lowest was also 60 all out against Sri Lanka in 2014. Overall, it’s the fourth-lowest total by New Zealand in men’s T20Is.
Opening Pair Brilliance:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran became the first opening pair with successive partnerships of 100-plus runs at the men’s T20 World Cup. They followed up their 154-run stand against Uganda with a 103-run partnership against New Zealand. Rashid Khan’s bowling figures of 4 for 17 against New Zealand are the best by a captain at the men’s T20 World Cup. He also surpassed Daniel Vettori’s 4 for 20 against India in 2007. Fazalhaq Farooqi achieved a unique milestone, becoming the first player with consecutive four-plus wicket hauls at the T20 World Cup. He followed up his five-wicket haul against Uganda with a four-wicket performance against New Zealand. Rahmanullah Gurbaz outscored New Zealand in this match, scoring 80 runs (compared to New Zealand’s 75 all out).
This was the seventh instance of a batter outscoring the opponent in a men’s T20 World Cup match.
Farooqi and Rashid Khan took four or more wickets in the same innings against New Zealand. This is only the third such instance in men’s T20 World Cup history. With 17 four-plus wicket hauls in T20 cricket, Rashid Khan holds the record for the most by any bowler in the format.
