The fifth match of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2024 took place between Afghanistan and Uganda at Providence Stadium in Guyana and Afghanistan won the match convincingly. The Afghanistan vs Uganda match witnessed some great moments as Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran registered a record partnership whereas Fazalhaq Farooqi claimed a fifer.

Uganda won the toss and opted to bowl. Put into bat, Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran got off to a flying start. Uganda couldn’t do much against a strong Afghanistan batting side where Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashed the opposition bowlers all over the park. Gurbaz started the onslaught with the boundaries, whereas Zadran soon joined the party as well.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran added a record partnership

Gurbaz was aggressive since the beginning, smashing 4 boundaries and as many sixes as well on his way to 76. On the other hand, Zadran’s onslaught came against Dinesh Nakrani who was bowling his second over of the match and Zadran hit him for four consecutive boundaries as well. Gurbaz reached his fifty in just 28 balls whereas Zadran took 34 balls to reach the feat. Meanwhile, Gurbaz recorded the highest individual score by an Afghanistan batter in a T20 World Cup match as well.

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In the 10th over, they crossed the 100-run mark and soon an eventful 25-run over from Bilal Shah helped them to reach 150, after reaching the 154-run mark, they lost their first wicket, courtesy of Brian Masaba who removed Zadran and soon Alpesh Ramjani dismissed Gurbaz for 76 runs.

However, their middle orders failed to do well as Afghanistan could only manage 27 runs in the last five overs. Cosmas Kyewuta and Brian Masaba brought back Uganda in the match and the duo claimed two wickets each as well and restricted Afghanistan to a modest total of 183/5 in their allotted overs.

Fazalhaq Farooqi claimed a fifer

While chasing, Uganda had the worst possible start. They lost their openers – Ronak Patel and Simon Ssesazi for 4 runs each. Soon, Roger Mukasa got out for a duck. However, Riazat Ali Shah tried his best with a 34-ball 11 alongside Robinson Obuya who scored a 25-ball 14.

Apart from them, no batter could reach the double figure, courtesy of a stunning spell from Fazalhaq Farooqi who picked up a fifer. Alongside him, Naveen-ul-Haq and Rashid Khan also picked 2 wickets each and they bowled Uganda out for 58, registering a win by 125 runs as well. Notably, this win is their second-biggest margin of win as the first one came against Scotland (130 runs) at Sharjah in the 2021 T20 World Cup as well.