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Mujeeb Ur Rahman wreaks havoc in his debut World Cup game

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 Afghanistan started the World Cup journey on a winning note crushing Scotland by a big margin played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah. Mohammad Nabi won the toss and decided to bat first. It was a great batting performance as Mohammad Shahzad and Zazai put on 54 runs for the opening wicket laying a strong foundation. Najibullah Zadran and Gurbaz created enough pressure on Scotland bowlers keeping the scoreboard adding on 87 runs for the 3 rd wicket. At the end of 20 overs, Afghanistan posted 190 for 4 in 20 overs. Mujeeb Ur Rahman bowled the opening over of the innings as Munsey played reverse sweeps. After that, Rahman created a major impact dismissing Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer and then got the wicket of Calcum McLeod to leave them under immense pressure. Mujeeb got better with his bowling dismissing Richard Berrington, top scorer Munsey. He produced another beauty to dismiss Mark Watt ending his 4 overs giving away just 20 runs and picking 5 wickets. Mujeeb and Rashi...

5 Key Indian players to watch for in 2020 ICC Women’s World T20

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The Indian Women’s Cricket Team would look to showcase their talent with lots of youngsters in the team. They have a poor record in T20 World Cups as they qualified for the semi-finals stage thrice. In the 2018 edition held in West Indies, India reached the semi-finals in controversial thing where experienced Mithali Raj was dropped. India are clubbed with Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in Group A. They will start their campaign against the defending Champions Australia on 21 st February at Sydney Showground Stadium, Sydney. This team has a explosive top order and quality spinners. If the middle order can fire along with the top order, then Indian team can win the World T20 for the first time. Here we look at the 5 key players to watch out for in 2020 ICC Women’s World T20 1.        Smriti Mandhana Smriti Mandhana is an explosive left-handed opening batter who can play big shots right from word go and put the opposition b...