The Afghanistan cricket crew continued their sensible run of type within the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 as they defeated Bangladesh in a thriller to e book their spot within the semi-finals on Tuesday. This was the primary time that Afghanistan certified for the semi-finals of any Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) occasion. The Rashid Khan-led facet has been on a giant-killing spree with a win over New Zealand within the group stage and a sensational victory over Australia within the Tremendous 8. Afghanistan wanted a win over Bangladesh to e book their semi-final berth and the consequence additionally meant that Australia have been eradicated. Following the victory, Rashid obtained a name from Taliban International Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.
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In a video posted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board on social media platform X (previously Twitter), Muttaqi was seen congratulating Rashid for the sensational victory. Muttaqi started the dialog with “Mubarak” and he had a particular message for Rashid and the remainder of the Afghanistan crew.
Afghanistan will now face South Africa within the first T20 World Cup 2024 semi-final on Thursday.
“It is one thing like a dream for us as a crew being within the semifinal. It is all about the way in which we’ve began the event. The idea got here whereas we beat New Zealand. It is unbelievable.”
“I haven’t got any phrases to explain my emotions. Again residence, everyone seems to be so joyful for this huge achievement. The one man who put us within the semifinal was Brian Lara and we proved that proper. Earlier than the competitors on the welcome get together, I informed him, ‘We cannot allow you to down. We’ll make it by way of and show you are proper.’ I’m happy with this crew. We thought 130-135 was a very good complete on this wicket.”
“We have been 15-20 runs brief. It was all in regards to the mindset. We knew they’d come exhausting at us to chase that in 12 overs to get into the semifinal. That is the place we might take benefit. If we bowled into the stumps, we had a greater probability to getting them out. We did not need to do something further. We simply needed to be clear with our plans. We put within the effort, that is in our arms,” Rashid Khan mentioned.
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