Azmatullah Omarzai, on Thursday (June 20), hit one of many largest sixes of the continued ICC T20 World Cup 2024 through the Tremendous 8s sport towards India on the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Chasing 182 to start out their Tremendous 8s marketing campaign with a win, Afghanistan had been off to a poor begin. Their in-form opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz tried to assault each ball and paid the worth by edging a large supply behind the stumps. He departed for 11 runs within the second over.
Hazratullah Zazai (2) and Ibrahim Zadran (8) couldn’t even attain the double-digit mark as Afghanistan discovered themselves reeling at 23 for 3 contained in the powerplay. Gulbadin Naib and Azmatullah Omarzai then stopped the rot with a 44-run stand earlier than departing in fast succession.
Azmatullah Omarzai departed after scoring 26 runs off 20 balls. And whereas the Afghan allrounder couldn’t bail his crew out of bother, he managed to make his presence felt by hitting Ravindra Jadeja for an enormous six. The appropriate-handed batter welcomed the India allrounder into the assault by hitting his very first ball for a six that traveled so long as 100 meter over long-on.
Watch the six from Azmatullah Omarzai:
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Speaking concerning the sport, India are very a lot within the driver’s seat. On the time of penning this report, Afghanistan had been reeling at 120 for 7 within the 18th over whereas chasing 182. They nonetheless want greater than 60 runs in lower than 3 overs to trigger an upset.
Earlier within the sport, India rode on Suryakumar Yadav’s fifty to get better from a poor begin and publish a aggressive whole of 181 for 8 after Rohit Sharma received the toss and opted to bat first. India had been reeling at 62 for 3 at one stage earlier than Suryakumar’s fifty rescued the innings.
The appropriate-handed batsman scored 53 runs off 28 balls with the assistance of 5 fours and three sixes. Hardik Pandya additionally performed an important knock of 32 runs. After the sport towards Afghanistan, India shall be taking up Bangladesh and Australia of their subsequent Tremendous 8s video games.
