India are officially retired of the T20 World Cup, arsenic New Zealand's triumph against Afghanistan punched the Black Caps' summons to the last four.
Kane Williamson and Devon Conway thwarted Afghanistan’s spinners successful a ascendant eight-wicket triumph connected Sunday.
The triumph eliminated pre-tournament favourite India, which needed an upset triumph by Afghanistan against the Black Caps to person a accidental of getting into the semi-finals from Group 2.
India inactive person to play a dormant rubber against Namibia tonight, with their nonaccomplishment to suffice already confirmed.
New Zealand’s gait attack, led by Trent Boult (3-17) and Tim Southee (2-24), acceptable up the large triumph by restricting Afghanistan to 8-124 aft Williamson mislaid the flip and was asked to field.
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Williamson made an unbeaten 40 and Convoy scored 36 not retired arsenic some batsmen saw done the rotation menace of Rashid Khan (1-27) and Mujeeb Ur Rahman (1-31) with a match-winning basal of 68 and carried New Zealand to 125-2 with 11 balls to spare.
“Strong performance,” Williamson said aft the game. “We cognize however unsafe this Afghanistan broadside is. Nice for america to beryllium capable to acceptable the code with the ball, instrumentality wickets aboriginal and past support them to below-par total.”
Boult had the wicket of Hazratullah Zazai for conscionable 2 successful his 2nd over, but the leftarm accelerated bowler thwarted Afghan hopes of a challenging full successful his instrumentality spell by removing top-scorer Najibullah Zadran (73) and Karim Janat.
Gulbadin Naib (15) and skipper Mohammad Nabi (14) got disconnected the mark, but New Zealand wisely utilized gait much than its 2 spinners to pin down Afghanistan.
Mujeeb, who didn’t play the past 2 games owed to a limb injury, gave Afghanistan an aboriginal breakthrough erstwhile helium had Daryl Mitchell caught behind. Then, Rashid picked up his 400th wicket successful T20s erstwhile helium cleanable bowled Guptill disconnected a missed expanse changeable but that’s each Afghanistan could muster successful the tract arsenic Williamson and Conway took New Zealand location with ease.
“On this benignant of pitch, this is not a decent total,” Nabi said. “We tried our champion with the ball, (overall) we played bully cricket successful the tourney and we volition instrumentality a batch of positives. We request to close the mistakes we made with the bat.”
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Afghanistan finished the tourney with 2 wins from 5 games, with the victories coming against Namibia and Scotland.
New Zealand adjusted good and won 4 games successful a enactment aft losing to Pakistan successful their opening radical crippled — a tally that included an eight-wicket triumph implicit India. The Black Caps faced possibly the toughest schedule, playing their past 3 games astatine 3 antithetic venues successful the oppressive day vigor of the United Arab Emirates.
Pakistan bushed Scotland by 72 runs successful their past radical match aboriginal Sunday to stay the lone unbeaten squad successful the tourney and finished apical of Group 2.
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