{"id":38476,"date":"2024-06-04T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=38476"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:46:38","slug":"t20-world-cup-2024-afghanistan-thrash-debutante-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/t20-world-cup-2024-afghanistan-thrash-debutante-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World cup 2024: Afghanistan thrash debutante Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN: Afghanistan produced a dominant bowling and batting performance to thrash debutants Uganda by 125 runs in the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/t20-world-2024-icc-announces-massive-cash-prize-for-winner-team-details-inside\/\"> T20 World Cup<\/a> in Guyana on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmanullah Gurbaz\u00a0and\u00a0Ibrahim Zadran\u00a0struck fifties in the\u00a0second-highest opening stand\u00a0in T20 World Cup history and\u00a0Fazalhaq Farooqi\u00a0took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20Is as Afghanistan crushed debutants Uganda by 125 runs in their Group C game of the\u00a0T20 World Cup\u00a0in Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s 183 for 5 was too much for Uganda, who were bowled out for 58 runs in 16 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqi&#8217;s five-for apart,\u00a0Naveen-ul-Haq\u00a0and captain\u00a0Rashid Khan\u00a0picked up two wickets each as Afghanistan ruined Uganda&#8217;s introduction to cricket&#8217;s biggest event.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda would, however, take heart from their comeback with the ball. Afghanistan lost 5 for 31 in the last six overs of their innings to finish well below 200. Uganda captain\u00a0Brian Masaba, who bowls spin, and fast bowler\u00a0Cosmas Kyewuta\u00a0took two wickets each.<\/p>\n<div>Before the collapse, Gurbaz and Ibrahim had blasted 18 boundaries in the first 14 overs. Gurbaz made his 76 off 45 balls with four sixes and as many fours, while Ibrahim struck nine fours and a six in his 46-ball 70.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN: Afghanistan produced a dominant bowling and batting performance to thrash debutants Uganda by 125 runs in the T20 World Cup in Guyana on Monday. Rahmanullah Gurbaz\u00a0and\u00a0Ibrahim Zadran\u00a0struck fifties in the\u00a0second-highest opening stand\u00a0in T20 World Cup history and\u00a0Fazalhaq Farooqi\u00a0took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20Is as Afghanistan crushed debutants Uganda by 125 runs in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":38479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18058],"tags":[10562,18053,17450,13751,18040,17449,18052],"class_list":["post-38476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world-cup-2024","tag-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-afg-vs-uganda","tag-groups-for-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-mens-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-pakistan-squad-for-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-t20-world-cup-2024-afghanistan-thrash-debutante-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}