RahmanGurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran ullah shared an initial stand of 118 to drive Afghanistan to a shocking 21-run prevail upon Australia in St Vincent on Saturday and keep alive their expectations of arriving at the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup.
A success for Australia would have sent the 2021 bosses and India into the last four, yet even a subsequent full go-around in as many matches from Pat Cummins was sufficiently not to safeguard their unbeaten record at the competition.
Half hundreds of years from Gurbaz and Zadran assisted the Afghans with piling up 148-6 in their 20 overs before their bowlers excused the Australians for 127 on a precarious Kingstown track.
Gulbadin Naib guaranteed 4-20 and Naveen-ul-Haq sacked 3-20, yet it was the third century organization of the competition from Gurbaz and Zadran that established the groundwork for a success that likewise kept Bangladesh alive.
India top Gathering 1 on four focuses, in front of Australia and Afghanistan on two, with Bangladesh alone in last spot, with none.
India and Australia go head to head in St Lucia on Monday, while the Afghans stay in St Vincent to play Bangladesh in the last Really Eight match soon thereafter.
Australia captain Mitchell Swamp won the throw and sprung two or three shocks by sending the Afghans in to bat and naming a group with left-arm spinner Ashton Agar in the bowling line-up instead of Mitchell Starc.
In the early overs it seemed as though the Australian bowlers would choke out the Afghans, however the absence of a leading edge wicket permitted Gurbaz and Zadran to get comfortable and advance rapidly through the center overs.
Fresh batting and hard running from the Afghans set the strain back on the Australians, who made strange handling mistakes under the Arnos Vale Ground lights.
The pair arrived at their half-hundreds of years before Marcus Stoinis at last isolated them in the sixteenth over, when Gurbaz confounded a shot to David Warner at profound square leg to withdraw for 60.
Spinner Adam Zampa eliminated Azmatullah Omarzai (2) and Zadran (51) in the accompanying over and paceman Cummins sent back Rashid Khan economically with the last bundle of the eighteenth over.
Karim Janat and Naib followed with the initial two conveyances of the twentieth over as Cummins turned into the main bowler to take two full go-arounds at a T20 World Cup.
He would have taken four wickets straight had Warner clutched a sensibly clear find running in from profound highlight excuse Nangeyalia Kharote.
Afghanistan made the most ideal beginning with ball close by with Naveen bowling Travis Head for a duck in the opening over and having Bog trapped in the profound for 12 in the third.
Warner followed for three off Mohammad Nabi's most memorable conveyance to leave the Australians battling on 32-3 in the last over of the show of dominance before the Afghans stacked much more tension on their rivals by eliminating Stoinis and Tim David.
The hazardous Glenn Maxwell gave Australia some expectation with a fighting 59 off 41 balls however his excusal by Naib because of a gymnastic catch by Noor Ahmad everything except fixed the destiny of the previous heroes.
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