Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman devoted Afghanistan’s win to the sufferers of the earthquakes.© X (Twitter)
Next orchestrating Afghanistan’s ancient win over England within the ICC Cricket Global Cup on Sunday, leg-spinner Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman devoted his group’s win to the sufferers of the earthquakes that have rocked his nation. Mujeeb used to be named ‘Guy of the Fit’ his 3 wickets and 28 runs as Afghanistan edged out England via 69 runs on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Afghanistan has been crash with 3 earthquakes this past, with the tremors claiming greater than 1,000 lives.
Previous on Sunday, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed two society in western Afghanistan.
“This is for the people back home who have been affected by the earthquake. As players and as a team, I wanted to dedicate my award to them,” stated Mujeeb.
He added: “It’s a very proud moment to be here in the World Cup beating the last champions, it is a good moment for the whole nation and the team. A wonderful performance for the bowlers and the batters.”
Sooner than Sunday, Afghanistan’s simplest win at a Global Cup got here again in 2015 on their debut over Scotland.
Since that event, they have been on a 14-match Global Cup shedding streak.
Two of the ones losses had come at this version — via six wickets to Bangladesh and 8 wickets to Bharat.
“It’s a tough loss to take. Congratulations to Afghanistan, they outplayed us today,” stated England captain Jos Buttler.
“They’ve got a really skilful attack, some fantastic spinners especially.”
The win allowed Afghanistan to climb from base to sixth within the issues desk. They’ll now tackle Unutilized Zealand on Wednesday, October 18.
(With AFP Inputs)
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