Representatives of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), along with players from the national squad, visited hospitals in Kabul to check on those hurt in an alleged Pakistani airstrike targeting a medical facility.
Naib’s addition to the Delhi Capitals’ squad was necessitated after Marsh was ruled out of the IPL 2024 with a hamstring injury.
Gulbadin Naib was appointed as the captain of Afghanistan's ODI team a month before the World Cup but was removed following team's poor performance.
The all-rounder, who will not feature in Test cricket any more, believes that Rashid Khan as a captain across all formats will work for the team.
Khil, on Thursday, scored 86 against the West Indies, thus becoming the youngest batsman at the World Cup to reach the milestone surpassing Sachin Tendulkar's 84 in the 1992 edition of the mega event.
It doesn't matter whichever team wins this clash as it could not bother the World Cup points table, yet it is an important fight for both the teams to end their campaign with a consolatory smile on their faces.
Shaheen Afridi also became the youngest bowler to take four wickets in a World Cup encounter at only 19 years and 84 days.
After restricting the already knocked out Afghanistan to 227/9, Pakistan made heavy weather of the target by losing wickets at regular intervals.
With 7 points from as many games, Pakistan are still in the contention of making it to the semi-finals. The Green Brigade need to win all their remaining matches and hope for favourable outcome to reach the knockout round.
Notably, Afghanistan had beaten Pakistan by three wickets in a warm-up match ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and that would give them the belief that they could do it all over again
