Read more about T20: Batters, Mujeeb star in Afghanistan’s 130-run rout of Scotland on Business Standard. The mammoth win in the opening match of the tournament is also Afghanistan’s biggest win in T20Is in terms of run margin
A collective batting effort followed by a masterly five-wicket haul from Mujeeb Ur Rahman meant that annihilated by 130 runs in a Group 2 match of Super 12 stage in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Monday. After scoring an imposing 190/4 in 20 overs, Mujeeb, along with Rashid Khan (4/9), spun a web around Scotland’s batters, from which there was no escaping as they were bundled out for 60 in the 11th over. The mammoth win in the opening match of the tournament is also Afghanistan’s biggest win in T20Is in terms of run margin. Chasing a mammoth target, Scotland’s George Munsey began by taking three boundaries in the first nine balls of the innings. Kyle Coetzer joined the act with two boundaries against Naveen-ul-Haq in the third over. But Rahman’s entry in the fourth over turned the match on its head as he scalped three wickets. Coetzer was the first wicket to fall, clean bowled by a googly.
