Afghanistan prevail over Hong Kong – registers a comprehensive win by six wickets – Mohammad Nabi captures four wickets

Afghanistan prevail over Hong Kong – registers a comprehensive win by six wickets – Mohammad Nabi captures four wickets

6th Match, First Round Group B: Afghanistan v Hong Kong at Nagpur – Mar 10, 2016 – Hong Kong 116/6 (20/20 ov); Afghanistan 119/4 (18/20 ov) – Afghanistan won by 6 wickets (with 12 balls remaining)

Mohammad Nabi captured four for 20 in this game to provide the fifth occasion of an Afghanistan bowler capturing four or more wickets in T20Is. It also represents his second four wicket haul in T20Is. He became the second Afghanistan bowler to capture four or more wickets on two occasions in T20I after Samiullah Shenwari. The performance of these two bowlers are furnished below

No No Player O M R W Inns Oppn Ground Start Date
1 1 Samiullah Shenwari 4.0 0 14 4 2 Can ICCA Dubai 18 Mar 2012
  2 Samiullah Shenwari 4.0 0 13 5 2 Ken Sharjah 24 Nov 2013
                     
2 1 Mohammad Nabi 4.0 0 17 4 2 HKG Dhaka 22 Feb 2016
  2 Mohammad Nabi 4.0 0 20 4 1 HKG Nagpur 10 Mar 2016

Mohammad Nabi’s four for 20 in this game represent the first occasion of an Afghanistan bowler capturing four or more wickets in WT20 and thus it represents the best bowling figures by an Afghanistan bowler in WT20. The previous best was 3 for 21 by Hamid Hasan against South Africa at Bridgetown on 05.05.10

Mohammad Nabi’s four for 20 in this game provides the 40th occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wikcets in WT20 and also provide the 35th occasion of a bowler capturing exact four wickets in WT20

Mohammad Shehzad completed 1200 runs while keeping wickets for Afghanistan in T20Is. He reached the milestone when he was on 18 during the course of his knock of 41. At the end of this game his run aggregate in T20Is read 1229. He became the third wicket keeper batsman in the history of T20Is to total 1200 plus runs. The other two are – KC Sangakkara {1382} and BB McCullum {1352}.

Mohammad Shehzad’s boundary fours aggregate at the end of this game read 125. He now stands second in the list of wicket keepers who have scored most boundary fours in W20. KC Sangakkara occupies the first place with 139 boundary fours. Mohammad Shehzad went past BB McCullum who had an aggregate of 124 boundary fours on his way to second place.

Mohammad Shehzad’s boundary sixes aggregate at the end of this game read 48 in T20Is. He needs two more boundary sixes which would fetch him 50 boundary sixes. If he gets them, he would then become the second wicket keeper batsman to score 50 plus boundary sixes in T20Is after BB McCullum. BB McCullum has scored 58 boundary fours.

Nizakath Ali Khan was dismissed stumped in this game to provide the 86th occasion of a batsman dismissed stumped in WT20 and the second such occasion for Hong Kong batsman. Waqas Barkat was dismissed stumped against Bangladesh at Chittagong on 20.03.14

Noor Ali Zardan was dismissed run out in this game to provide the 39th occasion of an opening batsman dismissed run out in WT20. It also provides the first occasion of an Afghanistan batsman dismissed run out in WT20

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