Kiwis will be wary of Afghanistan spinners in Chennai

Afghanistan created the most important and the primary upset of the event by beating England in Delhi and are excessive on confidence after they tackle New Zealand in Chennai.

One of the explanations for them to be assured is as a result of the match goes to be performed in Chennai the place spinners play an enormous position. The Chennai pitch is thought to help spinners and that very same pitch Indian spinners had acquired the higher of the Australian batsman to bowl them out for simply 199.

Afghanistan has three high quality spinners in Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman and Mohammed Nabi who picked 8 wickets out of the ten English batsmen and had full management of the sport. And if Rahmullah Gurbaz can as soon as once more set the platform for them together with Ibrahim Zadran, the remainder of Afghanistan’s batsman must capitalize and never collapse like the best way they did in opposition to England after being 114 for no loss to droop to 150/4, it was as a result of date hitting by Rashid Khan and Mujeeb ur Rehman and sensible batting by Ikram Alikhi they managed to put up an honest rating.

Mind you New Zealand additionally has good spinners In Mitchell Santener and Ish Sodhi and Trent Boult they’ve the perfect left-arm swing bowler and are the workforce to beat this World Cup with three scientific wins in opposition to England, Netherlands and Bangladesh. It must be seen if Afghanistan can batsman bat effectively to attain an honest complete to defend in opposition to the Kiwi batters who all are in type however as Rashid Khan talked about, they’re right here to not simply create upset however to win extra matches in opposition to huge groups and present the world they’ll play the 50 overs sport and never simply considered a T20 specialist format workforce.

 

The creator of this text is Anis Sajan, cricket fanatic and outstanding businessman who serves as Vice Chairman, Danube Group.