{"id":414816,"date":"2026-02-08T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:53:09","slug":"t20-world-cup-tim-seifert-half-century-helps-new-zealand-to-five-wicket-win-over-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414816\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Tim Seifert half-century helps New Zealand to five-wicket win over Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gulbadin Naib had earlier provided the backbone of Afghanistan&#8217;s 182-6 with a pugnacious 63 off 35 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The all-rounder struck three fours and four sixes at a strike rate of 180.00 as he shared stands with Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sediqullah Atal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lockie Ferguson claimed 2-40 while Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy and Rachin Ravindra chipped in with a wicket each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand looked in trouble when Mujeeb Ur Rahman removed Finn Allen and Rachin Ravindra for 1 and 0 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Seifert and Glenn Phillips rebuilt with a third-wicket partnership of 74 before the latter was bowled by Rashid Khan for a 25-ball 42.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seifert hammered back-to-back sixes off Mohammad Nabi &#8211; bringing up his half-century in the process &#8211; only to fall a couple of deliveries later to the experienced spinner when he holed out to square leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There would have been a few nerves when Mark Chapman departed for 28 but with Rashid and Mujeeb bowled out, Mitchell and Santner showed the required composure to complete the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulbadin Naib had earlier provided the backbone of Afghanistan&#8217;s 182-6 with a pugnacious 63 off 35 balls. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}