Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran Record: Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran have created history together. Indeed, in the Super 8 match against Australia (AUS vs AFG) Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran played a stormy innings together and put on 118 runs for the first wicket. By doing so, both have created history in the T20 World Cup. Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran became the batsmen with the highest 100-run partnership in the T20 World Cup. In this T-20 World Cup, both have registered more than 100 runs thrice so far.
By doing so, both the Afghanistan players broke the records of Kohli-Rohit, Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden. Let us tell you that Kohli and Rohit have done the wonder of sharing more than 100 runs twice in the T-20 World Cup edition. Both achieved this feat in the 2014 T-20 World Cup.
At the same time, Australia’s Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden set the record for the 100-plus run partnership twice in the 2007 T-20 World Cup.
The most 100+ stands in a single edition of the T20 World Cup
3 – Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran, 2024
2 – Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden, 2007
2 – Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, 2014
Talking about the match against Australia, Gurbaz played an innings of 60 runs in 49 balls, in which Gurbaz managed to hit 4 fours and 4 sixes. While Zadran scored 51 runs in 48 balls. Zadar hit 6 fours. Batting first, Afghanistan scored 148 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. On the one hand, Afghanistan’s openers gave a good start, but later Pat Cummins (3) and Adam Zampa (2) bowled tightly to restrict Afghanistan to 148 runs.