- Atal 102 and Rashid 4 for 17 seal Afghanistan’s comprehensive win Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 The three who matter: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah all smiles after dismissing Pat Cummins The three who matter: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah all smiles after dismissing Pat Cummins, India vs Australia, World Cup, Chennai, October 8, 2023 Atal put on a 140-run stand with Ibrahim Zadran , who scored 90, and even though Afghanistan lost their last six wickets chely, Zimbabwe never came close to the 295 target, getting bowled out for 136 in 38.4 overs.
- Had they crossed 196, Zimbabwe would have sealed a place in the tri-series final.
- As it stands, all three teams in the competition have a shot at qualifying for Friday’s final.
Atal 102 and Rashid 4 for 17 seal Afghanistan’s comprehensive win Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 The three who matter: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah all smiles after dismissing Pat Cummins The three who matter: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah all smiles after dismissing Pat Cummins, India vs Australia, World Cup, Chennai, October 8, 2023 Atal put on a 140-run stand with Ibrahim Zadran , who scored 90, and even though Afghanistan lost their last six wickets chely, Zimbabwe never came close to the 295 target, getting bowled out for 136 in 38.4 overs.
Had they crossed 196, Zimbabwe would have sealed a place in the tri-series final. As it stands, all three teams in the competition have a shot at qualifying for Friday’s final. Afghanistan and Zimbabwe are currently on two points each and Afghanistan vs Bangladesh is the only game left, on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe’s top order crashed for a second time in as many games, and this time there was no rescue act. They were 24 for 3 against Bangladesh, and this time they slipped to 43 for 4 in 13 overs. Fazalhaq Farooqi cleaned up Ben Curran for a duck in the third over with one that nipped back in off the seam.
Brian Bennett tried to counterattack with a six and a four. Tafadzwa Tsiga, however, chased Farooqi outside off stump, only to get caught behind for 2. Brendan Taylor was run out for 1 in the eighth over when he wandered out of the crease too far, with Azmatullah Omarzai nonchalantly getting a direct hit.
Later in the same over, Omarzai clean bowled Bennett, only for the latter to protest immediately that Omarzai’s handkerchief had fallen off of him during his run-up. The umpires deliberated briefly, before Ahsan Raza called it a dead ball. Fazalhaq Farooqi struck twice early in the second innings, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Tri-series, Abu Dhabi, October 19, 2026 Bennett, however, lasted only a little longer as AM Ghazanfar trped him lbw for 31 off 40.
With the situation dire at 43 for 4, Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl decided to slow things down. Raza struck Ziaur Rahman for an upper-cut six, and Burl hit his first four, but after that the pair grafted for nearly 13 overs without a boundary. During this time, Raza got two lives.
Omarzai first dropped him on 20 after running in from the deep-square-leg boundary. Soon, Raza, 24, edged Ghazanfar to slip where the catch wasn’t held. Finally in the 30th over, Raza pulled Zia to break the boundary drought.
Burl also hammered Mohammad Nabi for his second four, before Rashid got into his act with four quick wickets. He had Burl lbw for 31 with a slider that hit his front pad to end the 64-run fifth-wicket stand. Wessley Madhevere was then undone by a Rashid delivery that kept very low, but hit the batter’s back pad in line with middle stump.
Raza fell in Rashid’s next over, losing his stumps to a googly that turned in a mile. Raza finished on 48 off 80 balls and Zimbabwe had slipped from 107 for 4 to 124 for 7. Brad Evans became Nabi’s first wicket, caught at deep midwicket after hammering the offspinner for a six and a four earlier in the 37th over.
Rashid then struck Ernest Masuku’s middle stump for a duck before Ziaur’s throw from the deep caught Masakadza short to seal victory. Earlier, Zadran and Atal stitched a century stand after Rahmanullah Gurbaz gave Afghanistan a quick start. Zadran did the early running, reaching his 11th half-century with some attractive shots.
Atal looked like he was taking a bit of time to get back into the white-ball groove, but soon he also found the boundaries. Zadran looked in fine touch, as he headed towards a certain century, until Evans had him caught at deep square leg for 90. This was the fourth time Zadran fell in the nineties in ODIs, as Zimbabwe found a lifeline.
Afghanistan lost their ctain Rahmat Shah and Omarzai chely, which meant Atal had to slow down his proach. He added 42 runs for the fifth wicket with Hashmatullah Shahidi, before reaching his third ODI ton. Atal played in a more restrictive style, first to complement Zadran in their second-wicket partnership, and then to ensure Afghanistan didn’t lose their way.
When he holed out in the 45th over with the score past 250, Afghanistan fell art. Zimbabwe picked up the last six wickets for just 35 runs in the last 5.2 overs, but in the end, Afghanistan’s score was more than enough to secure a comprehensive win. Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 Sediqullah Atal made 102 against Zimbabwe, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Tri-series, Abu Dhabi, October 19, 2026 Chopped on and Gurbaz has to depart!
127.3 kph length ball around off from Masuku. Gurbaz charges down the track and goes for the big heave across the line, gets a healthy inside edge off the bat and drags it onto the stumps. Finally, some space to breathe for Zimbabwe with that wicket.
‘Catch it!’ rings out, and the fielder finally holds on. Another nervous nineties dismissal for Ibrahim Zadran. Evans roars in delight as the batter trudges off in pure dispointment, greeted by a massive round of plause from the crowd and his teammates.
It was a sharp bumper from Evans that got big on Ibrahim, who went for the swivel pull, only to top edge it straight to the deep square leg sweeper fielder. That’s the end of Sediqullah Atal, caught at long on. Plays a feeble slog sweep stroke and fails to get underneath the line of the ball, miscues the slog stroke high in the air as he plays the googly ball against the turn, clips it aerially and Tsiga rushes forward to gobble it up while diving in.
Atal drops his head in dispointment before slowly making his long walk back to the dugout. Through the gates and Masuku is pumped up! Length ball nips back in sharply after hitting the deck.
Rahmat Shah plays a nothing stroke in the end, clears the front leg and swipes with the cross bat, lets it go through the bat-pad and uprooted the middle stump. Brendan Taylor takes a worldie behind the stumps! My oh my, words can’t express that effort from BT!
Three-quarter length ball outside the fifth stump channel, plays the square drive and connects with the outside half of the bat. It was flying towards the vacant first slip position, but Taylor had some different ideas in mind. The wicketkeeper flew to his right with a one-handed effort and just managed to pouch it with the barest of his fingertips.
It looked like the ball would pop right out of his glove, but he somehow kept it securely inside the mittens. Brilliant, brilliant effort. World-class individual brilliance.
Who said he is 40 years old, eh? Short ball tactics does the trick! Banged in short pitched ball around off, backs away early and slices this one with extended arms, gets the outside part of the bat and finds the deep cover sweeper fielder near the ropes Pitched up front outside off and Nabi goes for the big heave across the line.
Clears the front leg and miscues it straight and high in the air towards long off. Raza settles underneath the night sky and keeps his calm and cool composure, gobbles it up making no mistake. Bowled’em with the slower delivery!
Back of the hand slower ball on the off stump line, gets down on one knee to blast this one out of the ground, misses the slog sweep stroke and the ball crashes onto the off stump. Smiles are exchanged between the bowler and the batter, but Evans gets the last laugh. Miscues it to mid-on.
Bouncer ball outside off and Ghazanfar throws everything at it, tries to drag it from outside off and this time clips it to mid-on at the edge of the circle. Masakadza settles underneath and completes the catch. Pace off fuller length delivery and Ziaur swipes it away toward deep mid wicket.
They attempt an impossible second run, and the batter is comfortably short of his crease. The throw from the deep is wide of the keeper’s end, but BT keeps his cool, collects the ball and flips a calm underarm throw straight at the stumps to break the bails. Short ball tactics does the trick!
Banged in short pitched ball around off, backs away early and slices this one with extended arms, gets the outside part of the bat and finds the deep cover sweeper fielder near the ropes Miscues it to mid-on. Bouncer ball outside off and Ghazanfar throws everything at it, tries to drag it from outside off and this time clips it to mid-on at the edge of the circle. Masakadza settles underneath and completes the catch.
‘Catch it!’ rings out, and the fielder finally holds on. Another nervous nineties dismissal for Ibrahim Zadran. Evans roars in delight as the batter trudges off in pure dispointment, greeted by a massive round of plause from the crowd and his teammates.
It was a sharp bumper from Evans that got big on Ibrahim, who went for the swivel pull, only to top edge it straight to the deep square leg sweeper fielder. Bowled’em with the slower delivery! Back of the hand slower ball on the off stump line, gets down on one knee to blast this one out of the ground, misses the slog sweep stroke and the ball crashes onto the off stump.
Smiles are exchanged between the bowler and the batter, but Evans gets the last laugh. Pitched up front outside off and Nabi goes for the big heave across the line. Clears the front leg and miscues it straight and high in the air towards long off.
Raza settles underneath the night sky and keeps his calm and cool composure, gobbles it up making no mistake. Chopped on and Gurbaz has to depart! 127.3 kph length ball around off from Masuku.
Gurbaz charges down the track and goes for the big heave across the line, gets a healthy inside edge off the bat and drags it onto the stumps. Finally, some space to breathe for Zimbabwe with that wicket. Through the gates and Masuku is pumped up!
Length ball nips back in sharply after hitting the deck. Rahmat Shah plays a nothing stroke in the end, clears the front leg and swipes with the cross bat, lets it go through the bat-pad and uprooted the middle stump. Brendan Taylor takes a worldie behind the stumps!
My oh my, words can’t express that effort from BT! Three-quarter length ball outside the fifth stump channel, plays the square drive and connects with the outside half of the bat. It was flying towards the vacant first slip position, but Taylor had some different ideas in mind.
The wicketkeeper flew to his right with a one-handed effort and just managed to pouch it with the barest of his fingertips. It looked like the ball would pop right out of his glove, but he somehow kept it securely inside the mittens. Brilliant, brilliant effort.
World-class individual brilliance. Who said he is 40 years old, eh? That’s the end of Sediqullah Atal, caught at long on.
Plays a feeble slog sweep stroke and fails to get underneath the line of the ball, miscues the slog stroke high in the air as he plays the googly ball against the turn, clips it aerially and Tsiga rushes forward to gobble it up while diving in. Atal drops his head in dispointment before slowly making his long walk back to the dugout. Chopped on and Gurbaz has to depart!
127.3 kph length ball around off from Masuku. Gurbaz charges down the track and goes for the big heave across the line, gets a healthy inside edge off the bat and drags it onto the stumps. Finally, some space to breathe for Zimbabwe with that wicket.
‘Catch it!’ rings out, and the fielder finally holds on. Another nervous nineties dismissal for Ibrahim Zadran. Evans roars in delight as the batter trudges off in pure dispointment, greeted by a massive round of plause from the crowd and his teammates.
It was a sharp bumper from Evans that got big on Ibrahim, who went for the swivel pull, only to top edge it straight to the deep square leg sweeper fielder. Through the gates and Masuku is pumped up! Length ball nips back in sharply after hitting the deck.
Rahmat Shah plays a nothing stroke in the end, clears the front leg and swipes with the cross bat, lets it go through the bat-pad and uprooted the middle stump. Brendan Taylor takes a worldie behind the stumps! My oh my, words can’t express that effort from BT!
Three-quarter length ball outside the fifth stump channel, plays the square drive and connects with the outside half of the bat. It was flying towards the vacant first slip position, but Taylor had some different ideas in mind. The wicketkeeper flew to his right with a one-handed effort and just managed to pouch it with the barest of his fingertips.
It looked like the ball would pop right out of his glove, but he somehow kept it securely inside the mittens. Brilliant, brilliant effort. World-class individual brilliance.
Who said he is 40 years old, eh? That’s the end of Sediqullah Atal, caught at long on. Plays a feeble slog sweep stroke and fails to get underneath the line of the ball, miscues the slog stroke high in the air as he plays the googly ball against the turn, clips it aerially and Tsiga rushes forward to gobble it up while diving in.
Atal drops his head in dispointment before slowly making his long walk back to the dugout. Short ball tactics does the trick! Banged in short pitched ball around off, backs away early and slices this one with extended arms, gets the outside part of the bat and finds the deep cover sweeper fielder near the ropes Bowled’em with the slower delivery!
Back of the hand slower ball on the off stump line, gets down on one knee to blast this one out of the ground, misses the slog sweep stroke and the ball crashes onto the off stump. Smiles are exchanged between the bowler and the batter, but Evans gets the last laugh. Miscues it to mid-on.
Bouncer ball outside off and Ghazanfar throws everything at it, tries to drag it from outside off and this time clips it to mid-on at the edge of the circle. Masakadza settles underneath and completes the catch. Pitched up front outside off and Nabi goes for the big heave across the line.
Clears the front leg and miscues it straight and high in the air towards long off. Raza settles underneath the night sky and keeps his calm and cool composure, gobbles it up making no mistake. Pace off fuller length delivery and Ziaur swipes it away toward deep mid wicket.
They attempt an impossible second run, and the batter is comfortably short of his crease. The throw from the deep is wide of the keeper’s end, but BT keeps his cool, collects the ball and flips a calm underarm throw straight at the stumps to break the bails. Tossed up on a full-length and slow through the air, straightens late as he jams the bat down and tries to go for a sweep behind square, hasn’t connected and that elicited a huge lbw peal.
Three reds on the screen, crashing onto middle-stump and he has to take the long walk back into the pavilion. That was plumb That’s exactly what was on the cards and the danger when you’re facing Fazalhaq Farooqi so spooky! Hard length and gets it to swing back viciously, he cannot get behind the line and the stumps are askews.
What a lovely sight if you’re a fervent fast-bowling fan! Amazing stuff and very hard to negotiate with, got it absolutely spot-on on this occasion. When he gets it to swing this way, it seems so hard to shield your stumps Oh, that’s a peach!
Around the wicket, short of a length and it nibbles away late, in that zone where a batter is confused whether to cut or leave and he ends up getting a thick edge to the keeper. Trying to get a move on and push the scoring rate but Farooqi finds a way to outsmart him. Just keeps coming at you and you can never drop your guard against this dextrous swing bowler Over the wicket, good length and he also gets massive inswing towards the stumps, dots building up and that urge to get going results in a run-out, Taylor just turns it to the leg-side and Omarzai hunts it down in a flash, he cannot get back, stranded in the middle of the pitch, looking lonely out there knowing every step back was going to be futile, throw was spot and this is massive wicket goes without saying…the highest run-scorer for Zimbabwe departs and now they are in a need for a major rebuilding work!
Sensational stuff! That is Rashid’s wizardry at his best, just got to take your hat off when you get this kind of a magic delivery, it’s the magician’s magic as he gets this wrong’un to spin back a mile from outside off and the ball disturbed the stumps and sent bails flying everywhere well before the bat came down to search for the line. Marvelous delivery Vociferous peal for an lbw in unison and Ahsan took his time before slowly raising the dreaded finger for Burl; another fired up full ball into the pads, couldn’t connect on the flick and looks stone dead in real time, decides agains the review after a short chat with Raza He just knew it was lbw the moment it rped on his pads, kept low as well, doesn’t even bother to look back at the umpire and brought out his famous arms aloft celebration, that was fizzed full and quick and very straight, he just went back trying to jam his bat down for a pull but got very late.
Shorter and then turned in, kept very very low Looped up slower on a length at off, doesn’t turn much, prances down the track and heaves it in the air, Ibrahim at deep midwicket perched near the rope reverse-cups it, Evans short little breezy cameo comes to an end and Zimbabwe are collsing like a house of cards Bit short and angling in at off, squirts it out to deep third and there’s a direct hit at striker’s end. Afghanistan look pretty confident out there and there is a good reason for that. That has uprooted the middle-stump before the bat was slid in and so Afghanistan register a clinical win in their opening fixture of this tri-series!
They’ve been head and shoulders above Zimbabwe He is hunting for a fifer and inching closer to it! Gets his fourth with another spectacular googly that went through the gate and crashed onto middle! The dreadful rattle means he has to take the long walk back to the hut.
Undone by another stellar wrong’un. Not easy for the tailenders to face this kind of heavy-metal music That’s exactly what was on the cards and the danger when you’re facing Fazalhaq Farooqi so spooky! Hard length and gets it to swing back viciously, he cannot get behind the line and the stumps are askews.
What a lovely sight if you’re a fervent fast-bowling fan! Amazing stuff and very hard to negotiate with, got it absolutely spot-on on this occasion. When he gets it to swing this way, it seems so hard to shield your stumps Oh, that’s a peach!
Around the wicket, short of a length and it nibbles away late, in that zone where a batter is confused whether to cut or leave and he ends up getting a thick edge to the keeper. Trying to get a move on and push the scoring rate but Farooqi finds a way to outsmart him. Just keeps coming at you and you can never drop your guard against this dextrous swing bowler Tossed up on a full-length and slow through the air, straightens late as he jams the bat down and tries to go for a sweep behind square, hasn’t connected and that elicited a huge lbw peal.
Three reds on the screen, crashing onto middle-stump and he has to take the long walk back into the pavilion. That was plumb Vociferous peal for an lbw in unison and Ahsan took his time before slowly raising the dreaded finger for Burl; another fired up full ball into the pads, couldn’t connect on the flick and looks stone dead in real time, decides agains the review after a short chat with Raza He just knew it was lbw the moment it rped on his pads, kept low as well, doesn’t even bother to look back at the umpire and brought out his famous arms aloft celebration, that was fizzed full and quick and very straight, he just went back trying to jam his bat down for a pull but got very late. Shorter and then turned in, kept very very low Sensational stuff!
That is Rashid’s wizardry at his best, just got to take your hat off when you get this kind of a magic delivery, it’s the magician’s magic as he gets this wrong’un to spin back a mile from outside off and the ball disturbed the stumps and sent bails flying everywhere well before the bat came down to search for the line. Marvelous delivery He is hunting for a fifer and inching closer to it! Gets his fourth with another spectacular googly that went through the gate and crashed onto middle!
The dreadful rattle means he has to take the long walk back to the hut. Undone by another stellar wrong’un. Not easy for the tailenders to face this kind of heavy-metal music Looped up slower on a length at off, doesn’t turn much, prances down the track and heaves it in the air, Ibrahim at deep midwicket perched near the rope reverse-cups it, Evans short little breezy cameo comes to an end and Zimbabwe are collsing like a house of cards That’s exactly what was on the cards and the danger when you’re facing Fazalhaq Farooqi so spooky!
Hard length and gets it to swing back viciously, he cannot get behind the line and the stumps are askews. What a lovely sight if you’re a fervent fast-bowling fan! Amazing stuff and very hard to negotiate with, got it absolutely spot-on on this occasion.
When he gets it to swing this way, it seems so hard to shield your stumps Oh, that’s a peach! Around the wicket, short of a length and it nibbles away late, in that zone where a batter is confused whether to cut or leave and he ends up getting a thick edge to the keeper. Trying to get a move on and push the scoring rate but Farooqi finds a way to outsmart him.
Just keeps coming at you and you can never drop your guard against this dextrous swing bowler Over the wicket, good length and he also gets massive inswing towards the stumps, dots building up and that urge to get going results in a run-out, Taylor just turns it to the leg-side and Omarzai hunts it down in a flash, he cannot get back, stranded in the middle of the pitch, looking lonely out there knowing every step back was going to be futile, throw was spot and this is massive wicket goes without saying…the highest run-scorer for Zimbabwe departs and now they are in a need for a major rebuilding work! Tossed up on a full-length and slow through the air, straightens late as he jams the bat down and tries to go for a sweep behind square, hasn’t connected and that elicited a huge lbw peal. Three reds on the screen, crashing onto middle-stump and he has to take the long walk back into the pavilion.
That was plumb Vociferous peal for an lbw in unison and Ahsan took his time before slowly raising the dreaded finger for Burl; another fired up full ball into the pads, couldn’t connect on the flick and looks stone dead in real time, decides agains the review after a short chat with Raza He just knew it was lbw the moment it rped on his pads, kept low as well, doesn’t even bother to look back at the umpire and brought out his famous arms aloft celebration, that was fizzed full and quick and very straight, he just went back trying to jam his bat down for a pull but got very late. Shorter and then turned in, kept very very low Sensational stuff! That is Rashid’s wizardry at his best, just got to take your hat off when you get this kind of a magic delivery, it’s the magician’s magic as he gets this wrong’un to spin back a mile from outside off and the ball disturbed the stumps and sent bails flying everywhere well before the bat came down to search for the line.
Marvelous delivery Looped up slower on a length at off, doesn’t turn much, prances down the track and heaves it in the air, Ibrahim at deep midwicket perched near the rope reverse-cups it, Evans short little breezy cameo comes to an end and Zimbabwe are collsing like a house of cards He is hunting for a fifer and inching closer to it! Gets his fourth with another spectacular googly that went through the gate and crashed onto middle! The dreadful rattle means he has to take the long walk back to the hut.
Undone by another stellar wrong’un. Not easy for the tailenders to face this kind of heavy-metal music Bit short and angling in at off, squirts it out to deep third and there’s a direct hit at striker’s end. Afghanistan look pretty confident out there and there is a good reason for that.
That has uprooted the middle-stump before the bat was slid in and so Afghanistan register a clinical win in their opening fixture of this tri-series! They’ve been head and shoulders above Zimbabwe He could hardly have looked more at ease while batting against Zimbabwe, but it was his fourth dismissal in the nineties, to go with three in the eighties Ibrahim Zadran pulled handsomely during his knock, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Tri-series, Abu Dhabi, October 19, 2026 Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 Sediqullah Atal made 102 against Zimbabwe, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Tri-series, Abu Dhabi, October 19, 2026 Rashid Khan was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets, Afghanistan vs India, 2nd T20I, New Delhi, September 15, 2026 Afghanistan have a 20-10 record in ODIs against Zimbabwe, and haven’t lost to them in the last eight years Rashid Khan and Ibrahim Zadran celebrate a wicket, India vs Afghanistan, 2nd ODI, Lucknow, June 17, 2026 Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 Sediqullah Atal made 102 against Zimbabwe, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, Tri-series, Abu Dhabi, October 19, 2026 Afghanistan have a 20-10 record in ODIs against Zimbabwe, and haven’t lost to them in the last eight years Rashid Khan and Ibrahim Zadran celebrate a wicket, India vs Afghanistan, 2nd ODI, Lucknow, June 17, 2026 UAE ODI Tri-Series 2026/27, AFG vs ZIM 2nd Match Match Report, October 19, 2026 – Atal 102 and Rashid 4 for 17 seal Afghanistan’s comprehensive win UAE ODI Tri-Series 2026/27, Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe Match Report: Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295 Zimbabwe would’ve qualified for the final if they had scored 196, but they were bowled out for 136 in a chase of 295
