Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 50 runs in the second T20. Afghanistan beats Zimbabwe by 50 runs in 2nd T20: Rashid-Naveen took 3-3 wickets; Series tied at 1-1, third match tomorrow

Darwish Rasooli scored 58 runs with 6 fours and 1 six.

Afghanistan defeated Zimbabwe by 50 runs in the second T20. Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat at the Harare Sports Club on Friday. The team scored 153 runs losing 6 wickets. In reply, the home team was all out after scoring 103 runs.

Zimbabwe won the first T20 match by 4 wickets. Now after the result of the second match, the series is leveled at 1-1. The third T20 will be played on Saturday in Harare from 5 pm onwards.

Rasooli scored fifty Afghanistan team, which won the toss and came to bat first, had a bad start. The team lost 3 wickets for 33 runs only. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was out after scoring 11 runs, Sediqullah Atal 18 and Zubaid Akbari was out after scoring 1 run. From here Darwish Rasooli and Azmatullah Omarzai took over the innings.

Rasooli and Omarzai made a fifty partnership, taking both scores to 86 runs. Here Omarzai was out after scoring 28 runs. After him Mohammad Nabi could also score only 4 runs. Rasooli was out after scoring 58 runs and took the team closer to 150.

Darwish Rasooli scored 58 runs. For this performance he received the Player of the Match award.

Burl took 2 wickets In the end Gulbadin Naib scored 26 runs and the score reached 153 runs. Ryan Burl and Trevor Gwandu took 2-2 wickets for Zimbabwe. Blessing Muzarabani got 1 hit, while one batsman was also run out.

Apart from Raza-Bennett, no one from Zimbabwe survived Zimbabwe also had a bad start against the target of 154 runs. The team lost 5 wickets for 57 runs. Brian Bennett scored 27 runs on 26 balls, but the rest of the batsmen could not score more than 10 runs. Captain Sikandar Raza scored 35 runs in 30 balls, but he fell alone at one end.

Raza was out in the 17th over, the team was reduced to 103 runs in the 18th over. Tashinga Musekiwa scored 13 runs, the rest of the batsmen could not do anything special. Rashid Khan and Naveen Ul-Haq took 3 wickets each from Afghanistan. Mujeeb ur Rehman got 2 wickets, 1-1 success went to Omarzai and Farid Malik.

Afghanistan all out Zimbabwe in 18 overs.

Zimbabwe won the first T20 on the last ball The first T20 was played between the two teams in Harare on 11 December. Here Afghanistan, batting first, scored 144 runs losing 6 wickets. In reply, Zimbabwe won by 4 wickets after scoring 11 runs in the 20th over.