AFG vs AUS Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8: Afghanistan stuns Australia to keep semifinal hopes alive

Zampa gets the final over underway with a double to the leg side. 

Zampa looks to go over the top. But he can’t clear long on. 

Adam Zampa c Mohammad Nabi b Azmatullah Omarzai 9 (7b 1x4 0x6 14m)

Afghanistan has pulled it off. They have beaten Australia. An incredible result. 

Afghanistan wins by 21 runs!!

Farooqi with the chance to wrap it up. Full and wide. Zampa manages to get it over third man for a four. Farooqi oversteps last ball of the over. But he beats Hazlewood for the last ball. 

Naveen returns. Beats Agar’s outside edge to start the over. 

Stunning catch!! Gulbadin’s Midas touch continues. Agar crunches a fuller one from Naveen. Gulbadin puts in a diving effort to hold onto a superb catch!!

Ashton Agar c Gulbadin Naib b Naveen-ul-Haq 2 (5b 0x4 0x6)

AUS 116/9 in 18 overs

Afghanistan burns a review on a long shot chance to get Cummins caught behind. 

Gulbadin decides to take matters on his own hands. Side-arm off-cutter and Cummins doesn’t read it at all. Bowled!!

Pat Cummins b Gulbadin Naib 3 (9b 0x4 0x6)

Noor misses a chances to get Agar run out. But a great over for Afghanistan nevertheless!

AUS 113/8 in 17 overs

Rashid lands one outside the leg stump, tempting Wade to go for a sweep. Top edged and another diving catch. This time by Janat. It is unravelling fast for Australia. 

Matthew Wade c Karim Janat b Rashid Khan 5 (7b 0x4 0x6)

Rashid keeps the pressure on. Just two singles and a wide from the over. 

AUS 111/7 in 16 overs

Gulbadin with his third. Brilliant start to the over. Just a single from the first three balls. 

Gulbadin keeps it wide and Maxwell has a go at it. Thick edge and Noor takes a good low diving catch. Is that the game for Afghanistan?

Glenn Maxwell c Noor Ahmad b Gulbadin Naib 59 (41b 6x4 3x6)

AUS 108/6 in 15 overs

Rashid brings back Naveen in hopes for putting an end to Maxwell’s knock. But a misfield by Janat gifts Maxwell a four following a misfield in the deep. Maxwell adds another double courtesy of some good running. 

Gulbadin continues. Jags one back in to strike David on the front pad. On-field umpire gives it out. Australia takes a review but with no success. 

Tim David lbw b Gulbadin Naib 2 (4b 0x4 0x6)

Overpitched from Gulbadin and Maxwell bangs it straight down the ground for a SIX. 

AUS 94/5 in 13 overs

Rashid Khan surprises Tim David with one which bounces and spins. Jabs the next one to long off for a single. Full from Rashid and Maxwell swats it off his arc. SIX!!

Gulbadin with the ball now for Afghanistan. Dot ball against Maxwell to start with. Pushes one to mid wicket to get off strike.

Back of a length from Gulbadin. Bounces much more than Stoinis expected. Top edged and Gurbaz takes a good catch. 

Marcus Stoinis c †Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Gulbadin Naib 11 (17b 1x4 0x6)

AUS 76/4 in 11 overs

Rashid continues. Two singles to start off the over. Length on the pads, turned to midwicket for a single. Four!! Maxwell makes room and creams the drive through extra cover for a boundary. 

Noor Ahmad into the attack. Full down leg side, will run away for five wides. Appeals for lbw as Stoinis misses the shot, AFG opt to review but looks like it was pitching down leg. AFG loses a review. Four!! A touch too full, Stoinis nails the sweep shot for a boundary. Maxwell looks for the reverse, is beaten outside off stump. 

Rashid into the attack. Beaten on the front foot defence first ball. Appeals for lbw, looked close that, Stoinis missed his reverse sweep. AFG opts against the review. Four runs from the over. 

Kharote into the attack. Stoinis gets a single off the first ball. Four!! Maxwell brings out the reverse sweep and finds the gap through third man. Six!! Too full, lofted over midwicket for a huge six. 

Nabi into the attack. WICKET!! Warner looks to sweep first ball, gets a top edge that goes straight to short third.

Warner c Noor Ahmad b Nabi 3(8)

Stoinis in at 5. Sweeps one to deep square to get off the mark. Just one run from the over.

Omarzai into the attack. Balls stays low outside off stump, allows Warner to sneak in a bye after Gurbaz spills. Four!! On the pads, flicked fine for a boundary. Four!! On the stumps, Maxwell uses his wrists to flick it through midwicket for four. 

Farooqi returns. The batters exchange a single each of the first two balls. Yorker length slower ball, Warner guides it to point for a single. A couple off the last ball to wide mid on. 

Four!! Naveen goes full, Marsh lofts it over the infield on the offside for a boundary. WICKET!! Full slower ball, Marsh looks to go big, only gets a top edge that is easily pouched by Nabi.

Mitchell Marsh c Nabi b Naveen-ul-Haq 12(9)

Maxwell in at 4. Appeals for lbw but that was going down leg. 

Fazalhaq Farooqi into the attack. Four!! Strays down leg, clips the thigh pad and runs away to the boundary. Full and swinging in, Marsh gets it through midwicket for a couple. Four!! Full on off, creams the straight drive past mid off for four. 11 from the over. 

Naveen ul Haq with the new ball in hand for Afghanistan. Travis Head to face the first ball. Movement in the air and bounce!! Head forced to back out of a shot. WICKET!! Full and straight, Head looks to loft it over midiwicket, the movement does him and he’s clean bowled. 

Head b Naveen-ul-Haq 0(3)

Mitch Marsh in at 3. Appeals for lbw first ball as Marsh misses his legside flick. Height might have been an issue. Gets off the mark with a single to deep square. 

Cummins could have made it four-in-four if Warner hadn’t dropped Kharote. Nabi closes off the innings with a four. 

Afghanistan ends with 148/6 in 20 overs

He has done it again. Pat Cummins gets another hat-trick. Off cutter from Cummins. Grips the surface and forces Gulbadin Naib to find the fielder in the deep. Three-in-three for Cummins. 

One more for Cummins. Slower one from the right arm pacer. Janat hits it straight to David at long on. 

Karim Janat c David b Cummins 13 (9b 0x4 1x6)

Another dropped catch. Janat with a skier and Agar gets underneath it only to spill it. Not the best day in the field for the Aussies. Couple of doubles from Janat take Afghanistan past 130. Straighter one from Hazlewood. Janat looks to turn it to the leg side. Instead it skews off his edge and flies for a six. Nabi closes off the over with a four, aided by a misfield from Cam Green. 

Rashid Khan promotes himself up the order. Pat Cummins with the ball. Two big shots attempted. But no bat on ball from Rashid. Cummins looks to go for a slow bounder. Above the head says the umpire. Wide given. Fuller one outside off. Rashid goes after it. Edged and just falls short of the fielder in deep. 

Rashid jumps out of the crease looking to go big straight down. Slower ball from Cummins. Rashid mistimes it and it is an easy catch for David. 

Rashid Khan c David b Cummins 2 (5b 0x4 0x6)

AFG 126/4 in 18 overs

Was that a bouncer from Zampa? Quick and rising from the leggie. Zadran can only top edge it for an easy catch for Marsh to take an easy catch. 

Ibrahim Zadran c Marsh b Zampa 51 (48b 6x4 0x6)

Azmatullah Omarzai is the new batter and his stint is a short one. Tries to flat bat a length ball from Zampa, only for the ball to squeeze under his bat and crash onto the stumps. 

Azmatullah Omarzai b Zampa 2 (3b 0x4 0x6)

Stoinis gets another crack. And now it is Zadran’s turn to get to his fifty. Pushes one to long on to get to the landmark. Back of a length from Stoinis and Gurbaz latches onto it. Whacked over mid wicket for a six. On the pads now and turned around the corner for a double. 

Gurbaz goes for another maximum. But he can only find Warner at backward square leg. 

Rahmanullah Gurbaz c Warner b Stoinis 60 (49b 4x4 4x6)

Agar spins one sharply past Gurbaz’s outside edge. It whizzes past the off stump. Gurbaz tucks the next one for a single to the leg side to get to his fifty. Just five runs of the over though. 

Short and wide from Hazlewood. Slashed away for a four by Zadran to bring up the 100-run opening stand. Third of the tournament for the pair. Hazlewood goes short. Too short says the umpire. Wide. 

Full from Zampa and Gurbaz goes boom. Six straight over the umpire’s head. Zampa goes for the googly next. Seems to have beaten Gurbaz’s inside edge. Aussies appeal but the umpire refuses. Review taken and there is an inside edge. Gurbaz survives. He tries to go big again by dancing down the track. Misses the ball. Wade fails to gather the ball. Gurbaz survives again. 

Stoinis gets his first over of the day and Gurbaz attacks him straight away. Short ball and pulled away for a four. 

DROPPED!! Zadran lobs one back at Stoinis, who can only stick a hand at it. Pings off. Gurbaz and Zadran scamper back for a double. 

Ashton Agar returns. Zadran on strike. Width on offer and Zadran lobs it to deep extra cover for a couple of runs. Zadran hits the same area again. But this time the timing is better. FOUR!!! Zadran goes for another big hit. Tim David with a rocket throw as the Afghan pair look to sneak in a double. Gurbaz with a dive to save his wicket. 

Maxwell continues. Gurbaz tries to sweep but misses. Quicker one outside off, beats Gurbaz’s outside edge. Full on the pads, flicked through the legside for a couple. Four!! Gurbaz brings out the slog sweep, and places it in the gap at midwicket for a boundary. 

Zampa continues. Tossed up, driven to long off for a single. Appeals for lbw after Gurbaz misses his sweep, was outside off stump though. Swept through backward square by Gurbaz, Cummins does well at the deep to keep it to two. Four from the over. 

Maxwell into the attack. On the pads, turned legside for a single. Dropped short outside off, punched to deep cover for one. Brings up the 50-run stand between the two. Prodigious turn for Maxwell, pitches on off and spins behind the batters legs. 

Zampa into the attack. Four!! Gurbaz makes room and lofts a full one down the ground for a boundary. Fuller outside off, driven to deep cover for one. Eight runs from Zampa’s first. 

Cummins to continue. Short of a length, guided to short third for a quick single. Ibrahim looks to make room, Cummins follows him and hits him in the abdomen. Some medical assistance required. Four!! Back of a length again, Ibrahim swivel pulls over the leg side, falls short of deep square and Agar lets it go through his fingers. Four!! Short and wide, cut hard, Zampa tries a one-hander at third man but can’t hold on. 

Hazlewood with a change of ends. Back of a length on the stumps, turned to deep backward square for one. Six!! Second six for Gurbaz. Steps down and lofts one over long on. Four!! Full on the pads, clipped through fine leg for a boundary. 

Cummins into the attack. Ball clearly getting stuck in the surface, batting is going to be hard. Three dots to start the over for Gurbaz. Another one outside off is left alone by the opener. Six!! Something had to give after five dots. Gurbaz hangs back and lofts one down the ground, has enough to go over the boundary. 

Agar continues. Full outside off, driven to point. Pulls the length back, defended off the back foot. Ibrahim punches one through extra cover, will get a couple. Two from the over. 

Hazlewood from the other end. Four!! Short of a length on off stump, extra bounce and the inside edge runs past fine leg for a boundary. Five dots to complete the over. 

The national anthems are done and dusted. Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmanullah Gurbaz out to open the innings. Will be Agar with the new ball.

Back of a length arm ball, slight movement into the batter. Slightly wider, Gurbaz cuts it to point. Four!! Attempted slog from Gurbaz, some turn on offer and the outside edge races to the boundary. Five runs from the over. 

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Nangeyalia Kharote, Rashid Khan(c), Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh(c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w), Pat Cummins, Ashton Agar, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

We’re going to bowl first, try and have a read on conditions and have a good night. We know Afghanistan are a good side. We just need to trust our process and enjoy it. Ashton Agar comes in for Mitchell Starc, purely conditions based.

Australia wins the toss and elects to bowl first against Afghanistan. 

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Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh(c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Najibullah Zadrabn, Mohammad Nabi, Hazrat Zazai, Rashid Khan (c), Noor Ahmed, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen Ul Haq.

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