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The 40th match of the ICC T-20 World Cup will be played between West Indies and Afghanistan on June 18 at 6 am. The match will be held at the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia.
Both the teams have not lost a single match so far in this World Cup. In Group-C, both have qualified for Super-8 by winning the first three matches. This will be the last group stage match of this World Cup. After this the Super-8 matches will start.
West Indies prevail over Afghanistan
A total of 7 T20 International matches have been played between West Indies and Afghanistan so far. In this, 4 were won by West Indies and 3 by Afghan team. A match was played in the World Cup. This match was played in the 2016 World Cup, in which the Afghanistan team won by 6 runs.
Gurbaz is the top scorer of this World Cup and Farooqui is the top wicket taker.
Afghanistan team’s opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz is the highest run scorer for the team in the last one year. During this period he scored 524 runs in 17 matches. He scored one century and four half-centuries in 17 innings. In this World Cup too, he is the top scorer of the team. He has scored 167 runs in the last 3 matches.
Fazalhaq Farooqui has been on top in bowling both in the last one year and in this World Cup. Farooqui has taken 12 wickets in three matches of the World Cup. Gurbaz is the top scorer and Farooqui is the top wicket taker of this World Cup.
King scored the most runs for West Indies in the last one year
Brandon King is the highest run-scorer for West Indies in the last one year. He has scored 561 runs in 18 matches. Alzarri Joseph is the top wicket taker. Joseph has taken 21 wickets in 13 matches during this period.
pitch report
So far 20 T-20 International matches have been played on this ground. Out of these, 10 matches have been won by the team batting first and only 10 matches have been won by the chasing team. On this pitch, Sri Lanka scored 201 runs against Netherlands on Monday. Earlier, on Sunday, Scotland had scored 180 runs. Whereas, Australia scored 186 runs. The pitch is high scoring, which will support the batsmen.
Weather report- 70 percent chance of rain
The match will be played in the evening in West Indies. The temperature will be around 32 to 27 degrees in the evening. It will be cloudy and there is a 70 percent chance of rain.
Possible playing-11 of both the teams
West Indies: Rovman Powell (captain), Brandon King, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Roston Chase, Sherfane Rutherford, Andre Russell, Romario Shepherd, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph and Gudakesh Moti.
Afghanistan- Rashid Khan (Captain), Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqui.
