It has been an epic encounter between England and Afghanistan it was a do or die match for both the team where they entered this match with a loss, where Afghanistan were beaten by South Africa and England were beaten by Australia so it was a quater final between both of these teams, the one who wins the game stays and the other has to go home. 

England had the advantage where they had beaten Afghanistan 2 times in this format but Afghanistan is a team which can't be write off they can beat any team on a given day. Afghanistan have also beaten England once that too in 2023 World Cup which happened in India. So underestimating Afghanistan is at your own risk. 

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Zadran Brilliant Century Made A Base 

This was much anticipated match where both the teams were entering with a loss. Afghanistan won the toss and Captain Sahidi choose to bat first. At the start of innings they had a thought whether they committed a mistake. But Zadran kept the things go on. Because they lost the wicket of Gurbaaz who went cheaply and rest of few too went early but partnership between Zadran and Sahidi went on. 

Afghanistan were back on track soon where Zadran was looking in ellite touch dispacting bad balls to boundary and rotating the strike as well so the score board stood ticking. Soon Sahidi got out then Azmatullah joined the party with Zadran it was no stopping for him. Zadran scored a brilliant century which was his first but he didn't stop there after his century he rolled over English bowlers with more aggressively. He scored a brilliant 177 runs facing 146 balls. He was well supported by Nabi too. With a collective effort Afghanistan scored 325 runs with a loss of 7 wickets. 

Azmatullah Omarzai The Warrior For Afghanistan

IIn the previous match it was England bowling who costed them the match though scoring a mamoth total of 350 above runs they lost the match against Australia, Thanks to the innings of Josh Inglis who just not scored a quick century but ensured Australia seal the match. So here England too had a dangerous batting and it was chasable total in Lahore. But things were really looking differently for England here. 

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They lost 2 wickets at the score of 30 pressure started to mount on for England as Omarzai started the damage. Though Joe Root was bating beautifully at one one but the other wickets were piling up. Before reaching 150 England lost 4 wickets., then a steady partnership between Root and Butler came where they developed a 83 runs partnership where Root too completed his brilliant century. Soon Butler departed for 38 and Livingston came to rebuilt the damage a 53 runs partnership between them gave England a solidity. But Azmatullah took root off and it was nail in the coffin. 

Root departed for 120 runs then it was no stopping for Afghanistan they took the wickets quickly and even England too were nearing the chase so it was on a stage who do it first either Afghanistan will allout England or England batsman will make a, steal. At the end Jofra Archer tried too hard too but it was too late it seemed as England were bowled out at the end with 8 runs remaining to score last 20 minutes were absolute thriller either who will win and Afghanistan players hold their nerves and won the match and pushed their chances forward.Azmatullah Omarzai took 5 wickets and was leader of bowling pack. With this England had been out from Champions Trophy 2025,Where Ibrahim Zadran was awarded with Man Of The Match award.