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Join UsA sublime five-wicket pull by spinner Rashid Khan made a difference Afghanistan make history on Friday by enrolling their to begin with ODI arrangement triumph against South Africa
Rashid Khan was in brilliant shape for Afghanistan in the moment ODI against South Africa in Sharjah on Friday. The Afghanistan star took a five-wicket pull as Afghanistan limited South Africa to fair 134 whereas guarding a add up to of 311. In doing so, Rashid got to be the to begin with cricketer in 53-year history of ODI cricket to take a five-wicket pull on his birthday. Rashid turned 26 on Friday.   A few time as of late this the best figures by a bowler in ODIs were – 4/12: Vernon Philander vs Ireland, Belfast, 2007 and 4/44: Stuart Wide vs Australia, Cardiff, 2010.
A wonderful five-wicket pull by spinner Rashid Khan made a difference Afghanistan make history on Friday by enlisting their to begin with ODI arrangement triumph against South Africa with a outstanding 177-run triumph in the moment coordinate of the three-match arrangement here. The 177-run triumph is Afghanistan’s greatest triumph by runs in ODI, bettering the past best of 154-run win against Zimbabwe. Afghanistan had won the to begin with coordinate by six wickets on Wednesday and Friday’s triumph gave them an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match arrangement and a paramount arrangement win over another Test-playing nation. Gurbaz come to the turning point off 107 balls, beating 10 boundaries and three maximums in the prepare. He survived a DRS referral on his way to a score of 105 off 110 balls some time recently he was cleaned up by Nandre Burget with a length ball bowled from circular the wicket that nipped back and struck the beat of the stumps as Gurbaz swung and missed.
Azmatullah Omarzai at that point took over the duty of scoring runs for Afghanistan as he impacted an unbeaten 86 off 50 balls, hitting five boundaries and six gigantic sixes that propped up the Afghanistan scoring and made a difference them reach a enormous total.
Chasing a target of 312, South Africa were off to a incredible start with captain Temba Bavuma and Tony de Zorzi taking them to 73 runs in 14 overs. Bavuma scored 38 off 47 conveyances, hitting four boundaries and one six.
Tony de Zorzi contributed 31 runs off 44 balls and after Reeza Hendriks (17) and Aiden Markram 21 made a difference South Africa reach 103/4 in the 24th over when Cristan Stubbs was out for five. They misplaced their way from that great position, with prepared spinner Rashid Khan and left-arm spinner with figures 6.2 coming about in the semi-cautious arrange.
Electing to bat to begin with, Afghanistan rode on a blasting century by opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz and half-centuries by Rahmat Shah (50) and Azmatullah Omarzai (86 not out) to post a challenging add up to of 311/4 in 50 overs.
In answer, South Africa fizzled to capitalise on a 73-run opening organization, enduring a center and lower arrange collapse and was bundled out for 134 in 34.2 overs to endure a enormous vanquish with around 15 overs to save. Rashid Khan finished with figures of 9-1-19-5 whereas Nangeyalia Kharote packed away 5-19 runs as Afghanistan scored a enormous victory.
After captain Hashmatullah Shahidi selected to bat to begin with, Gurbaz scored his seventh hundred in ODIs, breaking Ahmad Shahzad’s record for most centuries by an Afghanistan batter.
He raised an 88-run organization with individual opener Riaz Hassan (29) for the to begin with wicket, completing his half-century in 56 balls. and at that point included 101-run for the moment wicket with Rahman, who scored a 66-ball 50, hitting two boundaries in the process.
