{"id":90123,"date":"2019-02-23T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/zazais-heroics-win-afghanistan-series-over-ireland\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:02:55","slug":"zazais-heroics-win-afghanistan-series-over-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/zazais-heroics-win-afghanistan-series-over-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Zazai\u2019s heroics win Afghanistan series over Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KABUL (SW) – In a thrilling T20 encounter, Afghanistan smashed a number of records to overpower Ireland by 84 runs in the second match of the three-match series.<\/p>\n

At the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in India, the game saw the biggest team total in all T20 cricket, the second-highest individual score in T20Is, the most sixes by a batsman in a T20I innings and the biggest partnership for any wicket in all T20s.<\/p>\n

Hazratullah Zazai, hit a 44-ball T20 hundred and the joint-fastest T20 fifty – which included six sixes in an over. He hit a total of 16 sixes. His opening partner Usman Ghani, who scored 73 at a strike rate of 152.08, went almost unnoticed in a world-record partnership of 236, the ESPN reported.<\/p>\n

He was crowned as man of the match.<\/p>\n

Chasing the target, Ireland were restricted by the disciplined spin bowling by Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Zadran. Rashid picked up four wickets, the pick of them a googly that zipped through Andy Balbirnie before he could bring his bat down to cut. Afghanistan won by 84 runs.<\/p>\n

With this victory, Afghanistan has won the series, and Sunday's final match in T20 series is now a dead rubber before the five-match one-day series between the countries starts on Thursday. Following the one-day series, the sides will then play a Test match at the same Dehradun venue starting on 15 March.<\/p>\n

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