In a thrilling encounter during the T20 World Cup 2024 Group C match between West Indies and Afghanistan, history was rewritten as records tumbled in spectacular fashion. Opting to bat first, the West Indies team unleashed a relentless onslaught, culminating in a monumental total of 218/5 in their allotted 20 overs. At the heart of this batting blitzkrieg was Nicholas Pooran, who played a scintillating innings, falling just short of a century with a blistering 98 runs off a mere 53 deliveries.
Nicholas Pooran with the POTM award. - 98 (53) with 6 fours and 8 sixes. 🤯 — Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) The innings not only set the highest team total of the tournament thus far but also etched Pooran's name in cricketing folklore.
The standout moment came in the fourth over of the innings when Pooran unleashed havoc against Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai, plundering an astonishing 36 runs. This included three towering sixes and three boundaries, all punctuated by a no-ball that Pooran duly dispatched to the ropes. The over exemplified Pooran's aggressive intent and Omarzai's nightmare, cementing itself as one of the most explosive passages of play in recent T20 World Cup memory.
Remarkably, this wasn't the first time Afghanistan had been on the receiving end of such punishment in 2024. Earlier in the year, the Indian pair of Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh had also amassed 36 runs off a single over against Afghanistan, demonstrating the volatile nature of T20 cricket. Adding.
