Afghanistan's thrilling win against England..!!

 Afghanistan defeated a strong england team by 8 runs in the Champions Trophy series. With this, england has been eliminated from the Champions Trophy series. In this match held in Lahore, afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. As the Afghan team's front-row players lost their matches in succession, the team stumbled, losing three wickets for 37 runs. However, opener Ibrahim Chadran played a responsible game and scored a century in 106 balls. He continued to show action and scattered the england bowling. Ibrahim Chadron scored 177 runs off 146 balls, including 12 fours and six sixes. With this, Ibrahim Chadron, captain Hashmatullah (40), and Asmatullah (40) scored 24 runs, while afghanistan scored 325 runs, which resulted in a loss of 7 wickets.

England should score 326 runs to win. Opener Bill salt (12), Ben Duckett (38), jimmy Smith (9) and Harry Brooke (25) were all out. england struggled at one point but experienced Joe Root played a responsible game and fought for England's victory. england was expected to win as long as Root was there. At a crucial stage, Joe Root lost the game for 120 runs and Jos Buttler was out for 38 runs. At one point, jimmy Overton and Jobera Archer stood on the field and fought for England's victory. In this situation, england had to score 13 runs in the last over to win. afghanistan needed one wicket to win. This made the game thrilling. But England's players could only take singles and could not hit a boundary six. As a result, Adil Rashid threw the ball in the 49.5th over and the ball was caught straight by Hashmatullah. With this, afghanistan won by 8 runs. After this, england has lost two matches in a row and is out of the series. It is noteworthy that england had already lost to afghanistan in the 2023 World Cup.
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Sowmiya Sriram

27/02/2025 09:23 AM