Was it a match or a joke? Afghanistan came close and missed the Super-4, not knowing the rules

New Delhi. The last league match of the Asia Cup was played between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka and the Afghanistan team missed out on qualifying after reaching the threshold of the Super-4. After the match, team head Jonathan Trott said a big thing. He said the team did not know they had a chance to qualify for the Super-4 despite falling short of the target of 292 runs in 37.1 overs set against Sri Lanka. Trott said the match officials had not told the Afghanistan team all the equations related to qualifying for the Super-4. For this reason his team missed out on qualifying.

Chasing a target of 292 runs against Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team fell short by 3 runs and finally got bowled out for 289 runs in 37.4 overs. At the end of the 37th over, Afghanistan’s score was 289 for 8, which meant that the Afghan team needed 3 runs from a ball to win, improving Sri Lanka’s Net Run Rate (NNR).

The dream of Afghanistan was shattered by a mistake
Mujeeb ur Rahman was caught at long-on boundary while trying to hit a big shot off Dhananjay de Silva, after which non-striker Rashid Khan fell to his knees, perhaps thinking his team was out of the Super-4 race. is came out Later coach Jonathan Trott also confirmed this. While he is still not out of the race to qualify for the Super-4. Afghanistan team could have surpassed Sri Lanka in terms of net runs. If she scored 293 runs after 37.2 overs, 294 runs after 37.3 overs, 295 runs after 37.5 overs, 296 runs in 38 overs and 297 runs in 38.1 overs.

Didn’t know the Super-4 qualifying equations
Afghanistan could have achieved the target if Fazalhaq Farooqui, at number 11, had given a four off the second ball of the 38th over, a single off the third, fourth or fifth ball, or a single and Rashid. Khan finished the game with 27 runs off 16 balls. But this did not happen. Farooqui failed to get runs off the second and third balls of Dhananjaya D’Silva’s 38th over and was left lbw while trying to defend on the fourth ball.

Farooqui probably wanted to save his wicket so that Rashid Khan could complete the match in the next over and Afghanistan could at least win. But, Farooqui’s plan did not work and he got himself out and the Afghanistan team lost the match and was eliminated from the tournament.

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Coach Trott charged the officials
In the press conference after the match, Afghanistan team head coach Jonathan Trott said that the officials have not told us all the equations of Super-4 qualification. He said, “We were not even told about the calculation of Super-4 qualification. All we were told was to win the match in 37.1 overs to qualify for Super-4. We were not told in which overs we could score 295 or 297 (and win). We could have qualified even in the 38th over. No one gave any information about this either.

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