🏏ICC T20I WC 2024: Match 40: AFG vs WI St Lucia@6:00 AM IST🏏 - Page 3

This is hard to predict.

Both are equal.

Zero milne ki sambhavana hein.

Yup, lost the toss.

Cheers..

Thanks for the tag Soni.

May the best team win.

Sorry, won't be able to participate much as I am very busy preparing for quotations which need to go out today.

Catch you all later.

Cheers..

Super 8 qualifiers are:

• Group A: India and USA
• Group B: Australia and England
• Group C: West Indies and Afghanistan
• Group D: South Africa and Bangladesh

The eight teams will be divided into two groups:

• Group A: India, Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh
• Group B: USA, England, West Indies, South Africa

Four of the Super 8 qualifiers have won the World Cup previously, India, England, West Indies and Australia. Super 8 matches will be played across four West Indies venues: Antigua and Barbuda (four matches), Barbados (three matches), Saint Lucia (three matches) and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (two matches). Full fixtures available HERE.

Each team will play every other team in its group once, with the top two sides in each group qualifying for the semi-finals, to be played in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana on 26 and 27 June, respectively.

Full Fixtures (Local time)

19 June

USA v South Africa, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua (10h30)

England v West Indies, Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, St Lucia (20h30)

20 June

Afghanistan v India, Kensington Oval, Barbados (10h30)

Australia v Bangladesh, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua (20h30)

21 June

England v South Africa, Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, St Lucia (10h30)

USA v West Indies, Kensington Oval, Barbados (20h30)

22 June

India v Bangladesh, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua (10h30)

Afghanistan v Australia, Arnos Vale, St Vincent (20h30)

23 June

USA v England, Kensington Oval, Barbados (10h30)

West Indies v South Africa, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua (20h30)

24 June

Australia v India, Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, St Lucia (10h30)

Afghanistan v Bangladesh, Arnos Vale, St Vincent (20h30)

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Super 8 matches to be played across four West Indies locations

South Africa v USA to open Super 8 stage in Antigua on 19 June

First wicket

Fielding is very poor by Afghanistan

WI 157/3 (15.5)

CRR: 9.92

Afghanistan opt to bowl

Partnership: 22(22)

Last Wkt: Shai Hope c Najibullah b Gulbadin 25(17) - 135/3 in 12.1 ov.

Last 5 overs: 30 runs, 1 wkts

Toss: Afghanistan (Bowling)

END OF OVER 16

10 runs

WI: 158/3

CRR: 9.87

N Pooran

54 (39)

R Powell

15 (9)

Fazalhaq Farooqi

3-0-38-0

Noor Ahmad

4-0-20-0

WI 169/3 (17.1)

CRR: 9.84

Afghanistan opted to bowl

17th over

Runs Scored: 11

1 1 4 1 4 0

Score after 17 overs

WI 169-3

Rovman Powell

20(12)

Nicholas Pooran

60(42)

Naveen-ul-Haq

3-0-24-1

Rashid Khan to Pooran, FOUR, 90.2kph, full again, Pooran clears his front leg to flog it over midwicket.

17.2

Rashid Khan to Pooran, SIX, Rashid goes fuller, bowls it in the slot and Pooran latches onto it. Down on one leg to nail the slogsweep, dispatches over deep midwicket

17.1

Rashid Khan to Pooran, no run, Pooran shapes to slogsweep, goes too hard and misses to get hit on the pads. Afghanistan appeal for lbw but that's been struck down. Probably missing leg and even height was a factor. Oh, Afghanistan have reviewed it! Scrambled seam, spins away to beat the inside edge and rap him on the back leg. Over to ball-tracking and it's pitching outside leg! Afghanistan have lost both their reviews

Pooran missed his 100