New Delhi: Naveen Ul Haq gave Afghans a perfect start with the new ball, by picking up two early wickets on a spin-friendly track. However, Naveen’s Instagram post has drawn more attention, hitting on critics.
Rashid Khan led Afghanistan went head-on against the Australian side at the Arnos Vale Stadium, St Vincent. Against all the odds, the Afghans clinched victory by 21 runs, in a historic game on Sunday. Naveen Ul Haq laid the foundation by taking 2 early wickets on a turning wicket. After this historic victory over the Mighty Australians, Afghanistan is still alive in the semi-final race.
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After defeating Australians for the first time ever, Naveen Ul Haq shared a post on his Instagram handle drawing attention. In the post the cricketer shared, it shows two pictures. The first picture shows a guy sitting all alone in a stadium. In contrast, 2nd image the stadium is fully packed with spectators cheering.
Both the images had something written on them, while the 1st slide read ‘support’ and the 2nd had ‘congratulation’. Naveen Ul Haq captioned his post with a finger on lips emoji.
Afghanistan’s Qualification overview
A match of Super 8 was played between Afghanistan and Australia. Afghanistan registered a historic win over the Kangaroos. With this win, Rashid Khan and Co. is still alive in the race for semis. If India defeats Australian side on 23rd June, and Afghans need to defeat Bangladesh in their last Super 8 match, they could easily qualify.
However, if India lose to Australia then it would be Important for Afghanis to beat Bangladesh by a good margin. And then the team with better Net Run Rate (NRR) will qualify for the semi final stage.
At the moment India has the best NRR in group 1 (+2.425), Australia in the 2rd spot (+0.223), while in the 3rd place its Afghanistan (-0.650) and Bangladesh (-2.489) is in the 4th position.
