The Afghanistan Cricket Group, beneath the captaincy of Hashmatullah Shahidi, scripted historical past as they defeated the Aiden Markram-led South Africa by six wickets within the first One Day Worldwide of the three-match ODI sequence.
The duo of Fazalhaq Farooqi (4-35) and 18-year-old wonderkid Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar (3-20) had been the heroes because the Afghans secured their first ever victory over the Proteas in any format of Worldwide Cricket.
The Aiden Markram-led workforce had a horrific day with the bat because the Afghan bowlers saved choosing up wickets at common intervals and finally, the South Africans obtained all-out for a extremely shambolic rating of 106 runs.
The Proteas managed to keep away from their lowest-score in a One Day Worldwide sport as their workforce’s batters weren’t capable of finding any solutions to the bowling brilliance of the house facet.
Markram had opted to bat first after successful the toss. The opening duo of Tony de Zorzi and Reeza Hendricks added 17 runs for the opening wicket earlier than left-arm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi clear bowled Hendricks for 9 runs which began a extremely embarrassing and surprising batting collapse of the Proteas as they slumped to 36-7.
Farooqi took the scalps of De Zorzi (11 runs in 18 balls) and skipper Aiden Markram (2 runs in 5 balls) whereas Ghazanfar added the wickets of Jason Smith (0 runs in 5 balls) and Tristan Stubbs (0 runs in 5 balls) to his tally earlier than dismissing Kyle Verreynne for 10 runs.
The issues for the guests elevated much more when Andile Phehlukwayo obtained run out off the bowling of Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar as Nabi’s fast response time was sufficient to ship him again to the pavilion.
With simply 10 overs bowled out of fifty, it appeared just like the South Africans lowest-score file in One Day Internationals of 69 runs, scored versus Australia in 1993, can be at risk of getting damaged.
Nevertheless, a lot to the dismay of Afghanistan followers, the sinking ship of the Proteas was steadied by the duo of Bjorn Fortuin and Wiaan Mulder, as they stitched a partnership of 39 runs for the eighth wicket.
The partnership between the 2 was damaged by Rashid Khan, who was enjoying his first One Day Worldwide match for the reason that 2023 ODI World Cup, as he cleaned bowled Fortuin, however Wiaan helped his workforce go previous the 100 runs mark and within the course of, introduced up his maiden half-century as nicely.
Nevertheless, after citing his fifty, Mulder didn’t keep on the crease for a very long time and he was despatched packing by Farooqi. Wiann scored 52 runs in 84 deliveries which consisted of a most and 5 fours.
Rashid Khan took the ultimate South African wicket as caught Lungi Ngidi plumb in entrance of the stumps within the thirty fourth over and ended the sport with figures of 2-30 subsequent to his title.
The hosts had been anticipated to cruise to a straightforward victory with out dealing with any difficulties however that was not the case as each the openers fell early.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz obtained dismissed for a 3 ball duck off the bowling of Lungi Ngidi and Rahmat Shah adopted swimsuit as he was caught in entrance of the stumps by Bjorn Fortuin because the Hashmatullah Shahidi-led workforce had been struggling at 15-2 after the top of eight overs.
Aiden Markram and his males tried their finest to inflict a comeback as Fortuin registered his second wicket by eliminating Riaz Hassan (16 runs in 35 balls) whereas stand in skipper Aiden Markram accounted for the wicket of Afghanistan captain Hasmatullah Shahidi (16 runs in 29 balls).
Nevertheless, the duo of Gulbadin Naib (34* runs in 27 balls) and Azmatullah Omarzai (25* runs in 36 balls) helped their recover from the road by six wickets.
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