Afghanistan vs Papua New Guinea Highlights : Afghanistan faced Papua New Guinea in the 29th match of the T20 World Cup 2024. The match will be played at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad. Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to address first.
Papua New Guinea set a target of 96 runs. In reply, Afghanistan reached the target in 15.1 overs losing three lattices. Afghanistan defeated Papua New Guinea by seven lattices in the 29th match of the T20 World Cup 2024. The match will be played at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad.
Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to address first. Papua New Guinea were sailed out for 95 in 19.5 overs. In reply, Afghanistan reached the target in 15.1 overs losing three lattices. With Afghanistan's palm, the New Zealand platoon's ticket to Wellington has been cut. Afghanistan came the alternate platoon from Group C to reach the Super-8 stage. West Indies have formerly qualified from this group.
The trip to New Zealand ended there. traipsing first, Papua New Guinea got off to a poor launch. Captain Asad Wala scored three runs and Tony Ura scored 11 runs. At the same time, Lega Siaka and Sese Bau couldn't open their account. Hiri Hiri scored one run and came the victim of Naveen ul Haq. After this, Chad Soper nine runs and Norman Vanua(0) couldn't do anything special. Both of them ran out.
Kiplin Doriga scored 27 runs. On the other hand, Semo Kamiya scored two runs. John Carrico scored four runs. Fazal Haq Farooqui was the pick of the bowlers for Afghanistan with three lattices. Naveen- ul- Haq took two lattices. Noor Ahmed picked up one gate. Afghanistan's Semo Kamiya clean sailed Ibrahim Zadran. He couldn't open his account. Ali Nao also gutted up Rahmanullah Gurbaz.
Gurbaz returned to the kiosk after scoring 11 runs in seven balls. Azmatullah Omarzai was clean sailed by Norman Vanua in the ninth over. He scored 13 runs. Mohammad Nabi and Gulbadin Naib added 46 runs for the alternate gate. He scored 49 off 36 balls with four fours and two sixes while Nabi remained unbeaten on 16. New Zealand have formerly been excluded from the group stage.
After 37 times of combining the ODI and T20 World Cup, the Kiwi platoon has been excluded from the group stage or the first round. This happed in the 1987 ODI World Cup, when the platoon was excluded from the group stage. At the same time, in the 1983 ODI World Cup, New Zealand's platoon didn't pass the group stage or the first round.
The platoon has managed to reach the alternate round every time in the T20 World Cup. In the 2009, 2010 and 2012 T20 World Mugs, the Kiwis were knocked out of theSuper-8 round, while in 2014, New Zealand reached the automatic Super-10 round and were excluded in theSuper-10. New Zealand reached the semi-finals of the 2007, 2016 and 2022 T20 World Mugs.
At the same time, the Kiwi platoon was runner- up in 2021. Talking about the ODI World Cup, the Kiwi platoon was excluded from the semi-finals in 1975, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2007, 2011 and 2023. The platoon was runner- up in 2015 and 2019. In 1996, the Kiwis lost in the quarter- tests, while in 2003, the platoon was excluded in the Super-6.
