South Africa v Afghanistan<\/p>\n
Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan won the toss and elected to field in their must-win T20 World Cup clash against South Africa in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
There was some freshness in the pitch for the morning game and Afghanistan were able to keep South African batters quiet for the first three overs.<\/p>\n
Fazalhaq Farooqi drew first blood, dismissing South Africa captain Aiden Markram off a slower ball that he ended up mistiming a to mid-off.<\/p>\n
Despite the early wicket, Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickleton picked up the pace and took South Africa to 43\/1 in powerplay. The left-handed duo continued in the same vein even after the fielding restrictions were off, hitting freely to power South Africa to 98\/1 after 10 overs, including 23 runs off the 10th over.<\/p>\n
South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi<\/p>\n
Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Gulbadin Naib, Darwish Rasooli, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan (c), Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa v Afghanistan Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan won the toss and elected to field in their must-win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,1950,95847,162734,95852,95833,7301,95851,162732,95834,90626,162737,85,162733,162735,95831,162736],"class_list":{"0":"post-472255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","12":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","13":"tag-cricket-news","14":"tag-cricket-series-updates","15":"tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","16":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","17":"tag-cricket-world-news","18":"tag-icc","19":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","20":"tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","21":"tag-international-cricket-news","22":"tag-latest-cricket-news","23":"tag-latest-icc-announcements","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","26":"tag-today-cricket-match-news","27":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","28":"tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}