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Canada v Afghanistan

Scorecard

Put into bat, Afghanistan’s opening pair as soon as once more began nicely, placing on 47 runs. However, star batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz fell for 30, and Afghanistan have slipped to 49/2 in powerplay.

Ibrahim Zadran led the Afghanistan rebuild with a gritty half-century, his second successive fifty on the World Cup. His partnership with Sediqullah Atal has taken the Afghans to 131/2 in 15 overs.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan (c), Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ziaur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Canada: Yuvraj Samra, Dilpreet Bajwa (c), Navneet Dhaliwal, Harsh Thaker, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva (wk), Saad Bin Zafar, Dilon Heyliger, Jaskarandeep Singh, Kaleem Sana, Ansh Patel