Afghanistan all-rounder Gulbadin Naib gave his first response to his hamstring harm act, which was closely criticised throughout a T20 World Cup Tremendous Eight Group 1 match towards Bangladesh in Kingstown on Tuesday. Naib abruptly fell to the bottom through the twelfth over Bangladesh’s chase, clutching his hamstring when Noor Ahmed was about to bowl the fifth ball. He was standing comfortably within the first slip seconds earlier than that.

It was solely after Afghanistan head coach Jonathan Trott signalled from the boundary strains, asking the Afghan fielders to gradual issues down as Bangladesh had fallen behind on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) par rating within the rain-hit Tremendous 8 conflict, that Naib decided to pull the dramatic act,

The rain obtained heavier, and the umpires had no selection however to name for the covers. Fortunately, the stoppage was not lengthy. It solely took one over off Bangladesh’s chase and lowered their goal by two runs.

The match noticed frequent rain interruptions and Bangladesh, at that stage, have been 81 for 7, two runs behind on the DLS par rating in a revised chase of 116. After the transient stoppage, Bangladesh’s goal was revised to 114 in 19 overs.

The Afghans ultimately prevailed by eight runs to enter their maiden World Cup semifinal however Gulbadin’s act remained one of many main speaking factors throughout and after the match.

It was additional confirmed that he was not significantly injured when he returned to bowl two overs, additionally choosing up the vital wicket of Tanzim Sakib in considered one of them.

Naib was given remedy and was taken off the sector by teammate Naveen-ul-Haq and a assist workers because it began raining once more and gamers ran to the dugout.

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“Kabi khushi kabi gham primary huta hai (It occurs generally if you end up comfortable or if you end up unhappy). Hamstring,” Naib later stated in a put up on X, dotted with laughing emojis.

This was in response to a tongue-in-cheek put up by India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin,

“Crimson card for Gulbadin Naib,” Ashwin had stated.

When play resumed after a brief delay, the goal for Bangladesh was revised.

Naib was quickly again on the sector within the thirteenth over with Najibullah Zadran substituting him briefly. The all-rounder additionally rolled his arms over and dismissed Tanzim Hasan within the fifteenth over to scale back Bangladesh to 92 for 8.

Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan sought to minimize the incident.

“Properly, he had some cramp, I do not know what occurred to him and I do not know what is going on on in social media however that does not matter – it is simply the top discipline harm which comes after which we have not misplaced any overs, the rain got here and we simply went off, it isn’t one thing like introduced an enormous distinction within the recreation.

“We got here again on discipline after 5 minutes and there was no huge distinction. For me, it is similar to a small harm is available in, then you must take a while.”