Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

Darwish Rasooli
Darwish Rasooli
68(39) 5x4 - 3x6
Control %79%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 13 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
10 6 6 1 7 9 15 14
Sediqullah Atal
53(42) 2x4 - 3x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 14 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
0 0 4 18 16 3 7 5

Best performances - Bowlers

Mujeeb Ur Rahman
Mujeeb Ur Rahman
O4
M0
R21
W4
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
Azmatullah Omarzai
Azmatullah Omarzai
O3
M0
R20
W2
Eco6.66
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Match Details

Toss

West Indies , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

Afghanistan led the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

18.30 start, First Session 18.30-20.00, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20

Match days

21 January 2026 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

9.55pm Another terrific performance from Afghanistan. They have wrapped up the series 2-0, with one game to go. After racking up 189 for 4, Afghanistan bossed the powerplay in the second innings too, keeping WI to 29 for 1 in six overs. Hetmyer then threatened to turn the tables on Afghanistan with a six-laden 46 off 17 balls. Farooqi, though, stopped Hetmyer's six barrage and then ceded the stage to Mujeeb, who bagged a hat-trick to firmly tilt it Afghanistan's way. Mujeeb became the third Afghanistan bowler, after Rashid and Janat, to pick up a hat-trick in T20Is. Plenty to ponder for WI in the lead-up to the T20 WC in India and SL. That's all we have for you from this game. Do come back tomorrow for the third - and final - T20I in Dubai. Until then, this is Deivarayan Muthu signing off on the behalf of Sreshth Shah and K Vairavan. Goodbye and good night

Rashid, Afghanistan captain: It was a different challenge. WI are special in the T20 format and we had to comeback as a team after a bad Asia Cup. This prep will help us in the World Cup. In these conditions, length and line is important. The middle-order partnership makes me happy and that's the area we were working on till the 14th over. So happy how Rasooli took responsibility and everyone chipping in. It's about how much effort we can put in the ground and keep hitting the right length. Hetmyer started hitting and things were different. You have to put the effort till the last ball, something that we did today.

Mujeeb is the Player of the Match. Rashid steps in as the translator. "Congrats to everyone for the series win. The plan was to keep it simple and hit the stumps. Happy with the hat-trick. Didn't know I was on a hat-trick and I was just looking to hit the right areas. Good prep for us before the World Cup and West Indies are a good side. This win will give us more energy.

King, WI captain: Hetty played a fantastic innings, but after he got out, I had to be the person finishing it. The fielding has been a disappointment but that's something we keep working on. As professionals, we will look to improve tomorrow. We were just trying to target the short boundary with the left-right combination.


18.5
W
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Simmonds, OUT, slowie on off, Simmonds swings and ends up picking out deep midwicket. The No.11 can't find enough elevation and that is that

RR Simmonds c Ibrahim Zadran b Fazalhaq Farooqi 1 (4m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

18.4
1
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Motie, 1 run, backs away, Farooqi chases Motie and has him jamming a drive down to long-off
18.3
4
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Motie, FOUR, slowie, short and wide of off, Motie jumps onto the width and crashes it away to the left of point
18.2
1
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Simmonds, 1 run, low full-toss on middle, still a hard-to-hit full-toss, pushed back past Farooqi
18.1
1
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Motie, 1 run, very full on off, drilled away to sweeper cover

END OF OVER:
18 | 12 Runs 2 Wkts | WI: 143/9 (47 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 7.94, RRR: 23.50)

  • Gudakesh Motie3 (3b)
  • Azmatullah Omarzai3-0-20-2
  • Rashid Khan4-0-19-1
17.6
W
Azmatullah Omarzai to Joseph, OUT, Shamar backs away, Omarzai follows him with a full ball. Shamar can't get underneath it. He slices it in the air. Rashid moves swiftly to his right from cover and completes a diving catch

S Joseph c Rashid Khan b Azmatullah Omarzai 0 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

Shamar

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st9BA KingA Athanaze
2nd29E LewisBA King
3rd0J CharlesBA King
4th68SO HetmyerBA King
5th16BA KingQ Sampson
6th1MW FordeQ Sampson
7th6G MotieMW Forde
8th14K PierreG Motie
9th0G MotieS Joseph
10th7G MotieRR Simmonds