Afghanistan held their nerve to beat West Indies by six runs in a World Twenty20 Super 10 stage match in Nagpur on Sunday to register their first win in Group One and ruin their opponents' 100 percent record.
West Indies opted to field as Afghanistan rode an unbeaten 48 off 40 balls by Najibullah Zadran to post 123-7 and their bowlers then saw the team home, with off-spinner Mohammad Nabi and leg-spinner Rashid Khan taking two wickets each.
Scoreboard
Afghanistan
Mohammad Shahzad c Benn b Badree 24
Usman Ghani b Badree 4
Asghar Stanikzai c Bravo b Badree 16
Gulbadin Naib c Bravo b Sammy 8
Samiullah Shenwari c Sammy b Benn 1
Najibullah Zadran not out 48
Mohammad Nabi c Samuels b Russell 9
Shafiqullah Shafiq c Fletcher b Russell 4
Rashid Khan not out 6
Extras (lb 2, w1) 3
Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) 123
Did not bat: Amir Hamza, Hamid Hassan
Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Ghani), 2-33(Shahzad), 3-50 (Stanikzai), 4-52 (Shenwari), 5-56 (Naib), 6-90 (Nabi), 7-103 (Shafiq)
Bowling: Russell 4-0-23-2, Badree 4-0-14-3, Brathwaite 2-0-21-0, Benn 4-0-18-1, Bravo 4-0-28-0, Sammy 2-0-17-1
West Indies
Johnson Charles b Hassan 22
Evin Lewis c Khan b Hamza 0
Andre Fletcher not out 11
Marlon Samuels b Khan 5
Denesh Ramdin st Shahzad b Khan 18
Dwayne Bravo lbw b Nabi 28
Andre Russell run out 7
Darren Sammy c Shenwari b Naib 6
Carlos Braithwaite c Zadran b Nabi 13
Samuel Badree not out 2
Extras (lb 1, w 2, nb 2) 5
Total (8 wickets; 20 overs) 117
Did not bat: Sulieman Benn
Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Lewis), 2-33 (Charles), 2-34 (Fletcher rtd not out), 3-38 (Samuels), 4-79 (Bravo), 5-89 (Ramdin), 6-98 (Russell), 7-107 (Sammy), 8-114 (Braithwaite)
Bowling: Hamza 4-0-9-1, Nabi 4-0-26-2, Hassan 2.4-0-19-1, Khan 4-0-26-2, Shenwari 4-0-22-0, Naib 1.2-0-14-1
Result: Afghanistan won by six runs
Toss: West Indies
Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), Bruce Oxenford (AUS)
TV umpire: Richard Kettleborough (ENG)
Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)
Reserve umpire: Ian Gould (ENG)
Reuters / AFP
