However, Gurbaz continued to go for his shots. He made space and cracked a six over cover to bring up his fifty in 26 balls. With the wicketkeeper-bat leading the charge, Afghanistan scored 93/3 in 10 overs. Scoring at an incredible strike rate of 200, Gurbaz slammed seven sixes and four fours.
While Gurbaz’s defiant knock ended at 84, Azmatullah Omarzai (22) and Rashid Khan (20) took on the torch and made sure they kept pace with South Africa. Going into the last over, Afghanistan needed 13 runs to win. Just when South Africa needed a disciplined performance from Kagiso Rabada, the pacer bowled a wayward over, starting with a no ball and wide. Afghanistan chugged along to 187, but Farooqi’s run out sent the match into the tournament’s first super over.
Afghanistan walked into bat first and Azmatullah Omarzai hit a four and a six off the first two balls to take his side to 17/0. With South Africa matching the score, the match headed into another super over.
In the second super over, David Miller and Tristan Stubbs combined to score 23/0. South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj gave the team the perfect start, dismissing Mohammad Nabi on the second ball. Gurbaz yet again came to haunt South Africa with three sixes in a row,
