India moved to the Tremendous Eights, which consisted of two teams of 4, having gone undefeated within the first spherical of pool play.
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Dravid is properly conscious of the wrestle his crew faces on the Kensington Oval, since India defeated Afghanistan in a T20 match in Bengaluru in January, requiring two Tremendous Overs to win.
“We all know Afghanistan is a really harmful crew on this format of the sport,” former India batsman Dravid, 51 advised a pre-match press convention on Wednesday, based on AFP. “They’ve proven that by their performances on this World Cup.
“They may not have a variety of worldwide expertise within the different codecs of the sport, however a variety of their gamers do play in a variety of T20 leagues, greater than in reality a few of our gamers do.
“So, actually on this format they don’t seem to be a crew to be taken flippantly. They’re deservedly within the Tremendous Eights.”
Afghanistan have lived as much as the hype that they might be semifinalists.
Previous to an amazing 104-run loss by a surging West Indies in a match between two unbeaten groups on Monday in St. Lucia, when Nicholas Pooran smashed 98 for the match co-hosts, they’d already secured their spot within the Tremendous Eights.
However earlier within the competitors, Afghanistan hammered New Zealand for 84 runs.
Afghanistan’s success has been largely attributed to Rashid Khan‘s glorious spin bowling, who led the best way towards New Zealand in Guyana by taking 4 wickets for 17 runs.
Nevertheless, in the identical match, left-arm quick bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi additionally took 4-17, and New Zealand was eradicated for simply 75.
“They’ve a great bowling assault all spherical,” mentioned Dravid. “Even their two pacers are fairly skilled. Farooqi and Naveen-ul-Haq have each performed a variety of cricket, they each swing the ball as properly.
“I believe their bowlers are a number of the most sought-after bowlers on this format internationally.
“We perceive that’s going to pose a problem to us and we’re going to must play properly to counter that.”
Jonathan Trott, the coach of Afghanistan, mentioned that higher participant relations had resulted from the introduction of T20 franchise cricket, which was pushed by the Indian Premier League and “clearly very totally different from after I performed”.
Nevertheless, the 43-year-old claimed that the acquired info “works each methods”.
“We had 9, 10 gamers on the IPL. They may be capable to share their data of Indian gamers, and so they’ll be capable to do the identical with our gamers,” defined Trott. “That is the present state of world cricket.
“I believe it is in a great place, and it is very wholesome. And we’re in the midst of a World Cup and we’re in Barbados, so the world’s fairly good.”
Trott maintained that Nicholas Pooran’s ferocious assault would probably assist his crew defeat India.
“Pooran performed an important knock,” mentioned the previous England batsman. “However different sides are going to have gamers of that calibre, who on their day can win matches like Pooran did. So, I believe it is a good factor that it is occurred.
“We have discovered classes and we will put that proper beginning tomorrow (Thursday).”
