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The West Indies team faced Afghanistan in the last match of the T20 World Cup 2024 group stage being played in St. Lucia. Against Afghanistan, the West Indies team not only scored the highest score in its T20 World Cup history, but also scored the highest score in this T20 World Cup. West Indies set Afghanistan a target of 219 runs on the back of Nicholas Pooran’s storming innings. T20 World Cup 2024 is the first time a team has crossed the 210 mark. So far in this World Cup total runs of 201-201 were made twice.
Coming to T20 World Cup 2024, Australia and Sri Lanka scored 201-201 runs against England and Netherlands respectively. When West Indies scored 218 runs against Afghanistan. For the first time in the history of the T20 World Cup, a Caribbean team has managed to score more than 210 runs. The two-time champions West Indies scored 205-205 twice, but managed to break their own record in this match and post the fifth-highest total in T20 World Cup history. This road is not easy for Afghanistan.
After losing the toss, the West Indies team, who came to bat first, scored 218 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. For the Caribbean team, Nicholas Pooran scored 98 runs in 53 balls with 6 fours and 8 sixes and Johnson Charles scored 43 runs in 27 balls. Captain Rowman Powell scored 26 runs and Shai Hope’s 25 runs came from the bat. For Afghanistan, Gulbadin Naib got 2 wickets while Azmatullah Omarzai and Naveen ul Haq got one wicket each. Umarzai gave away 41 runs in 2 overs. He also gave away 36 runs in an over.