Afghanistan has made the semi-final battle more exciting by defeating Australia by 21 runs. The real architect of Afghanistan’s victory was Gulbadin Naib, who took four wickets and also took a brilliant catch. With this excellent performance, Gulbadin Naib wrote his name in golden letters in the pages of history.
After losing the toss, Afghanistan’s opening pair gave a good start and both of them scored half-centuries and made a century partnership for the third time in this tournament. However, after this Afghanistan’s innings faltered. Afghanistan presented a challenge to Australia by scoring a respectable score. The Afghan bowlers did not give Australia a single chance to get hold of the match as they came out to chase the target.
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๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐ซ โIt was all, but @GBNaib against Australia, who put on a terrific PoTM performance on a historic night! ๐ช#AfghanAtalan | #T20WorldCup | #AFGvAUS pic.twitter.com/aExTtPJNHb
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Gulbadin Naib demolished Australia’s fort
While Naveen-ul-Haq gave the initial setbacks, Gulbadin Naib shook the middle order. Naib put the last nail in Australia’s coffin by taking the wicket of Maxwell, who stood as a wall between Afghanistan and victory. Noor took a brilliant catch at point on Gulbadin Naib’s ball. Naib created history by taking 4 wickets for 20 runs in four overs.
Achieved a new milestone in World Cup history
Actually, Gulbadin Naib is the first bowler in T20 and ODI World Cup history to take four wickets as the eighth bowler. Afghanistan used eight bowlers in the match against Australia and Naib was their eighth bowler. Naib made Steynis, Tim David, Glenn Maxwell and Pat Cummins his victims.
AFG vs AUS: What did Gulbadin Naib say after becoming the Player of the Match?
Actually, in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the Afghanistan cricket team made the biggest upset in cricket history by defeating the Australian team in the Super 8. In this way, the Afghan team also avenged the defeat from the Kangaroo team in the ODI World Cup 2023.
Gulbadin Naib was the real hero of the victory for the Afghan team, who created history by taking 4 wickets. Gulbadin became the first bowler in the history of T20 and ODI World Cup, who took four wickets as the eighth bowler. He took the wickets of Australia’s Steynis, Tim David, Glenn Maxwell and Pat Cummins.
After the brilliant performance, he said during the post-match presentation that we were waiting for this victory for a long time. This is a special moment not only for me but also for my country and my people. This is a big achievement for our cricket team. I do not have words to express my happiness, but I want to thank all those from the bottom of my heart, who always supported us. This is the hard work of the whole team which has been working for the last two months and the result is in front of you.
Gulbadin Naib further said that thank you God, we finally defeated Australia. If you look at our previous results, it is nothing special, but what we have done in the last 10 years is a big achievement. We played a good game and in the first round we beat New Zealand and now we beat Australia, it was not easy. This is the world champion team and beating them is a big success for us. We will continue this form. Now our journey has started and we feel very lucky to have such staff and management.