T20 World Cup 2024 : West Indies vs Afghanistan Match Preview, ICC T20 World Cup 2024

40th T20I • Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium • Gros Islet

West Indies

218/5 (20)

Afghanistan

114 (16.2)

WI won by 104 runs

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Date & Time

18 Jun, 06:00 AM IST

Venue

Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, St Lucia, Gros Islet

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

40th T20I,

Umpires

Allahuddien Paleker (South Africa), Chris Brown (New Zealand), Alex Wharf (England, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bowl

Pitch Report

It looks like a good wicket, but it doesn't look as good as the last couple of games. There is an even covering of grass on it. Fast bowlers are going to get a bit of extra bounce on it

1st Innings

162Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

135Avg SR

2nd Innings

153Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

138.38Avg SR

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Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

4- 3

AFG

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

West Indies

Afghanistan

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

AFG . WK

167 Runs

3 Matches

Ibrahim Zadran

AFG . BAT

114 Runs

3 Matches

Sherfane Rutherford

WI . BAT

92 Runs

3 Matches

Top Bowlers

Fazalhaq Farooqi

AFG . BOWL

12 Wkts

3 Matches

Alzarri Joseph

WI . BOWL

8 Wkts

3 Matches

Akeal Hosein

WI . BOWL

7 Wkts

3 Matches

Playing XILineups Out

Fantasy Top Picks

Expert Team 1

A Russell

R Khan

Expert Team 2

F Farooqi

N Pooran

Venue Details

Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, St Lucia, Gros Islet

It looks like a good wicket, but it doesn't look as good as the last couple of games. There is an even covering of grass on it. Fast bowlers are going to get a bit of extra bounce on it

1st Innings

162Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

135Avg SR

2nd Innings

153Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

138.38Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

65%Bat First Bowl First35%

Team Batting First

53%Wins Losses47%

Recent Matches on venue

5th T20I • Jul 17 • Australia tour of West Indies 2021

WI 199/8 (20)

AUS 183/9 (20)

WI won by 16 runs

vs live score

4th T20I • Jul 15 • Australia tour of West Indies 2021

WI 185/6 (20)

AUS 189/6 (20)

AUS won by 4 runs

vs live score

3rd T20I • Jul 13 • Australia tour of West Indies 2021

WI 142/4 (14.5)

AUS 141/6 (20)

WI won by 6 wickets

vs live score

2nd T20I • Jul 11 • Australia tour of West Indies 2021

WI 196/4 (20)

AUS 140/10 (19.2)

WI won by 56 runs

vs live score

1st T20I • Jul 10 • Australia tour of West Indies 2021

WI 145/6 (20)

AUS 127/10 (16)

WI won by 18 runs

vs live score

1st T20I • Mar 6 • England tour of West Indies

WI 160/8 (20)

ENG 161/6 (18.5)

ENG won by 4 wkts (7b rem)

24th Match, Group F • May 12 • ICC Men's T20 World Cup

WI 105/10 (19)

AUS 109/4 (16.2)

AUS won by 6 wkts (22b rem)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

West Indies

Afghanistan

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

4- 3

AFG

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

176

Average Score

155

220/6

Highest Score

212/6

133/6

Lowest Score

101/3

Player of the Match Nicholas Pooran

98(53)

Lucky Winner Maddy

AFG

Info

West Indies

218/5 (20)

Batters

Brandon King

116.67

b A Omarzai

Johnson Charles

159.26

c G Naib b N Haq

Nicholas Pooran

184.91

runout (A Omarzai)

Shai Hope

147.06

c N Zadran b G Naib

Rovman Powell

(C)

173.33

c (sub N kharote) b G Naib

Andre Russell

100.00

Not out

Sherfane Rutherford

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 2, W: 9)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 10.9)

218/5

Did not Bat

Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Gudakesh Motie, Obed McCoy

Bowlers

EXT

12.67

20.50

11.25

10.25

5.00

15.00

7.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Brandon King

b A Omarzai

1-22

1.5

Johnson Charles

c G Naib b N Haq

2-102

7.6

Shai Hope

c N Zadran b G Naib

3-135

12.1

Rovman Powell

c (sub N kharote) b G Naib

4-199

18.3

Nicholas Pooran

runout (A Omarzai)

5-215

19.4

Afghanistan

114/10 (16.2)

Batters

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

0.00

c A Russell b AJ Hosein

Ibrahim Zadran

135.71

c J Charles b OC McCoy

Gulbadin Naib

70.00

lbw b G Moti

Azmatullah Omarzai

121.05

c R Powell b AJ Hosein

Najibullah Zadran

0.00

c J Charles b OC McCoy

Mohammad Nabi

25.00

b OC McCoy

Karim Janat

155.56

runout (AJ Hosein / B A King)

Rashid Khan *

(C)

163.64

c R Powell b A Russell

Noor Ahmad

50.00

c SE Rutherford b G Moti

Naveen ul Haq

66.67

c N Pooran b A Joseph

Fazalhaq Farooqi

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 4, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(16.2 Ov, RR: 6.98)

114/10

Bowlers

EXT

Akeal Hosein

5.25

Andre Russell

2.2

7.29

Alzarri Joseph

10.00

Gudakesh Motie

7.00

Obed McCoy

4.67

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c A Russell b AJ Hosein

1-0

0.3

Gulbadin Naib

lbw b G Moti

2-45

6.2

Ibrahim Zadran

c J Charles b OC McCoy

3-59

7.4

Najibullah Zadran

c J Charles b OC McCoy

4-59

7.6

Mohammad Nabi

b OC McCoy

5-63

9.2

Azmatullah Omarzai

c R Powell b AJ Hosein

6-89

12.3

Karim Janat

runout (AJ Hosein / B A King)

7-89

12.5

Noor Ahmad

c SE Rutherford b G Moti

8-98

14.1

Naveen ul Haq

c N Pooran b A Joseph

9-107

15.4

Rashid Khan

c R Powell b A Russell

10-114

16.2

Match Info

Date & Time

18 Jun, 06:00 AM IST

Venue

Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, St Lucia, Gros Islet

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

40th T20I,

Umpires

Allahuddien Paleker (South Africa), Chris Brown (New Zealand), Alex Wharf (England, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Toss

Afghanistan elected to bowl

4 1 1 1 0 1

Over 14

Runs: 8

W 4 0 0 0 0

Over 15

Runs: 4

4 0 1 W 0 1wd 0

Over 16

Runs: 6

6 W

Over 17

Runs: 6

All Overs

Player of the Match Nicholas Pooran

98(53)

Lucky Winner Maddy

Commentary

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Rovman Powell (captain, West Indies): It is important to play good cricket and while we do that, we need to keep on improving. The guys were excited to come here. We know this venue is a good batting track and we took our opportunities tonight. (on Nicholas Pooran) It is on the back of hard work, he has had a good last 12 months not only in franchise cricket but also in international cricket. (on Obed McCoy) It is going to be a good headache. We have been playing here for quite some time and we need to use the conditions to our advantage. We started at 8-9 but now we are ranked 3. When we went to Guyana, the support was lovely. Trinidad was a packed house and St. Lucia support was good as well. When they were picking up a team or a World Cup XI, they gave me freedom and I want to thank them for giving me this freedom

Rashid Khan (captain, Afghanistan): They started well with the bat. In T20, it is tough to come back and restrict them to less than 220, it was a good effort by the boys. It is more about the execution and it is good that it happened at this stage of the tournament. There was a strong breeze and as a bowler, you are thinking about where you can bowl and how can you restrict your over to less than 10 runs. The morale is very high and we have achieved what we wanted to. Our next aim is how are we going to play on those pitches and how are we going to play as a team. The fielding was a positive for us in this game.

Nicholas Pooran is the Player of the Match, here is what he has to say: You don't want to be on 97 and get run out but it was all about getting to a respectable total and we managed to do that. Accessing the conditions early. Getting off to a great start in the powerplay is very important and then not losing any wickets in the middle overs. With the Afghanistan spinners, you had to take your time, It's difficult to strike the ball in the tournament but when you get the chances in good pitches like this you have to capitalise. Yeah you know not only about tonight but we have been very consistent over the last one and a half years. The last game in Trinindad from Rutherford inspired us. When it is your day you have to take full advantage of it.

West Indies win by 104 runs

Afghanistan: 114 all out in 16.2 overs
Ibrahim Zadran: 38(28b) |Azmatullah Omarzai: 23(19b)
Obed McCoy: 3/14 (3 overs) | Akeal Hosein: 2/21 (4 overs)

A convincing win here for the hosts as they cap off the group stages with a huge win. They will be elated and will be carrying this confidence as they play England in the same venue in a couple of days time.

Their defence started on the right note as they saw the back of Gurbaz early. Ibrahim Zadran and Gulbadin Naib looked to foil their plans but it wasn't to happen as soon after the powerplay, Motie saw the back of Naib. It was Obed McCoy who then followed it up as he picked up 2 wickets in his first over which indeed broke the back of the chase, leaving Afghanistan reeling at 63/5.

Karim Janat and Azmatullah Omarzai found the boundary on a couple of occasion and it looked like something was on the cards. But it was soon put off as Akeal Hosein dismissed Omarzai and some poor running between the wickets saw Karim Janat's stay cut short. Towards the end, it was Rashid Khan who sent a few into the stands but it was a little too much for them as he too went down looking to score boundaries.

A complete performance from West Indies in all three departments in their final game of the group stages. Obed McCoy, returning after a hiatus, picked up 3 wickets with 2 of them coming in the first over. Akeal Hosein and Gudakesh Motie picked up 2 wickets each with Russell and Alzarri Joseph capping it off with one each in their wickets tally.

16.2 Andre Russell to Rashid Khan, WICKET! West Indies registers a massive 104 run win to end their group stage campaign. A fuller-length delivery around the off-stump from Russell, Rashid stays deep and tries to launch this down the ground, balloons it up in the air from the cue end of the bat, Rovman Powell comes running in from long off and holds onto the catch after a bit of a misjudgement at the start.

16.1 Andre Russell to Rashid Khan, SIX! That has been absolutely crunched by Rashid Khan. Sits back in the crease and was expecting that short delivery, an almighty swipe across the line and sends that many a mile over the deep midwicket fence.

Andre Russell (2-0-11-0) comes back into the attack and will be bowling to Rashid Khan on strike

West Indies will be convinced by the way they have won this game. This has been a comprehensive win for them and they will want to finish it off on the very next ball that is bowled

overs

108 /9 score

1wd

runs

Fazalhaq Farooqi *

0 (2)

Rashid Khan

12 (9)

Alzarri Joseph

1 /30

15.6 Alzarri Joseph to Fazalhaq Farooqi, zones it into the stumps on that occasion and Farooqi defends that back to the bowler.

15.6 Alzarri Joseph to Fazalhaq Farooqi, another quick short delivery but a bit leg sidish on this occasion and has been called a wide.

15.5 Alzarri Joseph to Fazalhaq Farooqi, Alzarri with another rib snorter, around the middle stump and Farooqi fends that awkwardly towards the off side.

Fazalhaq Farooqi, RHB, walks out to the middle and will be on strike

That was an excellent grab there from Pooran, who has had an excellent day with the bat and now with the gloves behind the sticks

15.4 Alzarri Joseph to Naveen-ul-Haq, WICKET! That's a brilliant catch from Nicholas Pooran, Alzarri Joseph banging it short again, a very well directed bumper around the head height of Naveen, he tries to take evasive actions and sway away from that but the ball thuds onto his gloves, was a difficult catch for Pooran who times his jump to perfection and clutches onto that.

Naveen-ul-Haq c Nicholas Pooran b Alzarri Joseph 4(6b,1x4,0x6)

15.3 Alzarri Joseph to Rashid Khan, Rashid waits on the backfoot and swings at that good-length delivery around middle, from the inside half of the bat down towards deep midwicket and settles for a single.

15.2 Alzarri Joseph to Rashid Khan, hard-length delivery around the leg stump, kisses his back and off to the keeper it goes.

15.1 Alzarri Joseph to Rashid Khan, FOUR! That was a good bumper from Alzarri, hits the wicket hard, Rashid clears his front leg and swats across the line, flies off the top edge down towards the fine leg boundary.

Alzarri Joseph (2-0-24-0) comes back into the attack and will be bowling to Rashid Khan on strike

End of the spell for Gudakesh Motie. The pacers will be looking to blow away the remaining two wickets and bring an early end to the game. Unless, Rashid and Naveen have other ideas

overs

102 /8 score

runs

Naveen ul Haq *

4 (5)

Rashid Khan

7 (6)

Gudakesh Motie

2 /28

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