Afghanistan defeat Netherlands by 7 wickets

Afghanistan defeated Netherlands by seven wickets at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday.

Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat first.

Netherlands threw away wickets with reckless abandon as they lost 4 of their key men due to run outs as they were bundled out for 179 runs against Afghanistan.

Mohammad Nabi took 3 wickets while Sybrand Engelbrecht top scored for the Dutch with 53 runs.

Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Rahmat Shah both scored fifties as Afghanistan chased down 180 in 31.3 overs.

Rahmat Shah and Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi scored 52 off 54 balls and 56 not out off 64 balls, respectively.Netherlands XI: Max O'Dowd, Wesley Barresi, Colin Ackermann, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Scott Edwards (c & wk), Bas de Leede, Saqib Zulfiqar, Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren
Afghanistan XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Ikram Alikhil (wk) Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi