Afghanistan’s Naveen-ul-Haq trapped Mustafizur Rahman leg earlier than within the 18th over of the Bangladesh chase, setting off a historic victory for his house nation. Afghanistan will now tackle South Africa on June 26, on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago.
Although Afghanistan have been feisty opponents in modern-day cricket, not many would’ve predicted their inspirational run to the semis. Brian Lara was an exception to the identical, for the previous West Indies legend had predicted that the Afghans would make all of it the way in which to the semi-finals.
And after their sensational win over Bangladesh, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan was proud at having confirmed him proper.
“I believe now we have proved one individual very proper: Brian Lara, the one one that talked about Afghanistan to be within the high 4, in semis. I believe we instructed him that as effectively after we met him within the welcome social gathering – we’ll make sure that we show that proper as effectively,” Rashid stated on the post-game press convention.
“I believe while you get the sort of nice, nice statements from a legend, as a staff, I believe it provides you a lot of vitality as effectively.
“We’re succesful – however as lengthy we hold the issues quite simple and I believe in the entire competitors thus far, we stored the factor easy. Sure, there have been some robust instances however we did not let ourselves down and we at all times attempt to come again stronger.”