By Admin 
The fourth match of T20 World Cup 2026 is being played between New Zealand and Afghanistan in Chennai. After winning the toss, Afghanistan decided to bat first, which their batsmen proved right. New Zealand’s condition can be gauged from the fact that they had to bowl to their 7 players. Gulbadin Naib played a stormy innings for Afghanistan, he completed his half-century in 29 balls. Gulbadin played a brilliant inning of 63 runs.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran started the innings for Afghanistan, both started with caution. Ibrahim (10) was caught out by Lockie Ferguson in the last over of the powerplay. He made a partnership of 35 runs with Gurbaz for the first wicket. In the same over, Gurbaz (27) also returned to the pavilion, Ferguson bowled him.
Gulbadin Naib’s stormy half-century
Afghanistan had a slow start, 2 wickets had fallen in the powerplay, then there was a partnership of 79 runs for the third wicket between Gulbadin Naib and Sediqullah Atal. Gulbadin completed his half-century in 29 balls. Atal was dismissed by Jacob Duffy in the 15th over, who played an important inning of 29 runs in 24 balls.
Gulbadin Naib’s brilliant innings came to an end in the 18th over, he was caught out on the ball of Rachin Ravindra. He scored 63 runs in 35 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 3 fours. In the end, Abdul Rasooli played important innings of 20 runs in 13 balls and Azmatullah Omarzai played important innings of 14 runs in 7 balls, taking the score to 182.
7 New Zealand players bowled
Captain Mitchell Santner made the two main bowlers bowl one over each with additional bowlers. Jacob Duffy and James Neesham bowled 3-3 overs. His overs were bowled by the captain from Glenn Phillips and Rachin Ravindra. Rachin also took an important wicket in the form of Gulbadin Naib.
Lockie Ferguson took the most wickets for New Zealand, he took 2 wickets for 40 runs in 4 overs. He took both these wickets in the last over of the powerplay. Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy and Rachin took one wicket each.