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NZ vs AFG
Afghanistan vs. New Zealand Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024: Afghanistan won their first-ever over, thrashing New Zealand by 84 runs.
Highlights For NZ vs AFG
- Afghanistan won the Twenty20 World Cup 2024 match against New Zealand by a score of 84 runs.
- The three most notable bowlers for Afghanistan were Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, and Fazalhaq Farooqi.
- Only two batsmen from New Zealand, Glenn Phillips and Matt Henry, scored in double figures.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz led Afghanistan in scoring with 80. - Afghanistan scored 159/6, while New Zealand was dismissed after only 75 runs.
- With this victory, Afghanistan defeated New Zealand in cricket for the first time ever.
AFG vs NZ Scores
At the Guyana National Stadium on Friday, Afghanistan defeated New Zealand by 84 runs to take the lead in Group C of the T20 World Cup.
After setting a lofty target of 160 runs to win, the Black Caps collapsed to 75 all out in 15.2 overs, their first-ever T20 International cricket loss to Afghanistan.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, the Afghan opener, set the tone early with a top score of 80 off 56 balls (five fours, five sixes). By the fifteenth over, he and Ibrahim Zadran (44) had shared 103 runs for the first wicket, leading the team to a final total of 159 for six after they were put in.
After dismissing Uganda for five wickets in the opening match, left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi took the first three wickets of the New Zealand innings before returning to take a fourth to seal the victory.
With a total of four wickets for seventeen, captain and dangerous leg-spinner Rashid Khan shared bowling honours. He also dismissed opposite number Kane Williamson with the first delivery of his innings, thus ending the match as a fight.
The 2021 defeated finalists has a formidable battle ahead of them, beginning on Wednesday in Trinidad against co-hosts West Indies due to New Zealand’s surrender and evident rustiness.
