Former Afghani skipper Asghar Afghan has made a hilarious revelation about his former teammate Hazratullah Zazai, stating that the latter eats rather a lot. Notably, Afghanistan annihilated Sri Lanka within the opening fixture of the Asia Cup on Saturday, twenty seventh August, to ship an ominous warning to the remainder of the edges within the competitors. Mohammad Nabi’s facet outclassed the five-time champions in all elements of the sport and had been relentless from the onset.
Analysing the sport on on ‘BatBricks7 Presents Run Ki Runneeti present’ on CricTracker, Afghan answered a fan’s query. The fan query learn, “Ye Zazai khata kya hai (What does Zazai eat?),” to which Afghan replied, “Vo bahut zyada khaate hain, khuraak ka bahut shaukeen hain (He eats rather a lot, loves consuming).”
Talking of the match, Sri Lanka entered the sport because the favorites however their possibilities of profitable the sport took a big hit within the opening two overs, dropping their high three batters for simply 5 runs on the board. Fazalhaq Farooqi caught the attention along with his skillful swing bowling on the high, whereas the spin trio of Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan by no means gave any respite to their opponents since these early blows, proscribing Sri Lanka to a lowly 105.
Afghanistan by no means appeared unsure about chasing the mediocre whole and raced house with nearly ten overs to spare, because of the belligerent stand between openers Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz. In the meantime, Afghanistan’s triumph within the curtain-raiser conflict of this 12 months’s event threw warning to their former captain’s phrases earlier than the conflict, who had backed them to carry the trophy.
Afghan had acknowledged that the gamers are fairly accustomed to the format and are snug taking part in on the venue. Though they’d misplaced their final collection towards Eire, there are in good type to go all the best way within the Asia Cup.
“I nonetheless imagine that Afghanistan can win the Asia Cup, and I’d favor them as a result of our boys are very a lot skilled within the T20 format, particularly once they play in Dubai. The present type of the workforce and the mix (of gamers) that they’re deploying are good,” Afghan had instructed CricTracker.
