Afghanistan Team did an impossible thing once again by beating England with 8 runs of margin. Earlier too they beat England in ICC World Cup 2023 which held in India, In that too they beat England by 69 runs. It has been a great growth of Afghanistan team not only challenging big teams but beating them convincingly. This is not just a one day process but took a years of preservance. 

They were great in associate nation matches and performed extremely well to attain this position at what they are today. There are players who are not associated with it today but been a part of this process would be extremely happy today what their team had acheived. It was a do or die situation for both the teams but at the end it was Afghanistan who hold their nerves to pull of a massive victory. 

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Ibrahim Zadran And Azmatullah Omarzai Heroics

Both England and Afghanistan were in a do or die situation if they had to qualify anyone would have to win the game, the game had all the elements of twist and turns where a cricket fan throughly enjoy a lot. Afghanistan won the toss and choose to bat first though wickets were crumbling at one end but Ibrahim Zadran was on his zone he just blasted the runs flow with boundaries and sixes. He faced 146 balls scoring 177 runs which is equally half of the score attained by Afghanistan in his innings he has hitted 12 fours and 6 sixes. 

 With support of his innings Afghanistan gave England the target of 326 runs which was quite acheivable in the modern era and type of form English batters had attain it would be a slicer. But sometime unusal thing happens in cricket.

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 Azmatullah Omarzai came in between of England's victory. England too had a cozy start at the score of 30 runs they lost 2 wickets. But it was Joe Root who kept one end ticking but other end became a path hole where batsman get digging. They never had an answer to Omarzai deliviries even Root after completing his century became the victim of Omarzai itself. He took 5 wickets haul giving only 58 runs in his quota. 

Sachin Tendulkar Couldn't Hold On

After the victory of Afghanistan even God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar couldn't control his emotions he even tweeted in his account and congratulated the whole team and said Now Afghanistan steady and constent rise is truly inspiring and they can't be considered as upsets anymore. 

Afghanistan’s steady and consistent rise in international cricket has been inspiring! You can’t term their wins as upsets anymore, they’ve made this a habit now.

A superb century by @IZadran18 and wonderful five-for by @AzmatOmarzay, sealed another memorable win for Afghanistan.… pic.twitter.com/J1MVULDtKC

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) February 26, 2025

 TThe way Afghanistan team and their cricket has been evolved is truly remarkable now it is a gate opener for them at their given day they can be heavy on any team.