Lahore: After thrilling match Asian Nation Afghanistan clinched victory against England by 8 runs in the champions trophy do and die match.
Chasing enormous target of 325 runs England could made 317 runs in allotted 50 overs one ball to spare.
A brilliant ton of Joe Root wasted as he scored 120 runs. On the other hand Both Ben Duckett and skipper and Jos Buttler made 38 runs.
Whereas Jamie Overton scored 32 runs and Harry Brook 25 runs.
Azmatullah Omarzai picket five wickets, Muhamad Nabi got two.
Besides that Fazalhaq Farooqi, Rashid Khan and Gulbadin Naib got one wicket each.
Earlier, Afghanistan decided to bat first after winning the toss while Ibrahim Zadran played splendidly as scored gigantic 177 runs.
He was declared player of the match over his tremendous inning.
Overall team performance were shown in today’s match as some good innings by Afghan players were seen.
Almost three middle order batsmen performed superbly as Hashmatullah Shahidi 40 runs, Azmatullah Omarzai 41 and Mohammad Nabi 40 were prominent batters today from Afghan side.
