Boult, Williamson Black Caps pilot to win Eight-Wicket for Afghanistan, the results of placing the Kohli team came out of the continent and prayer with the hope of Afghanistan miracles had fallen.
Indian superstars can now pack their bags and come home from their ‘home’ World Cup, after failing to make the semifinals.
And Virat Kohli can now sit and reflect on what he has done for polite and simple Kiwi Irk.
This is the third consecutive ICC event that Kane Williamson’s children sent them home empty-handed — The first two were the World Cup ODI in 2019 and then the world test championship earlier this year.
Scorecardr Ashwin said on another day that they wanted to give “physical support” for the Mystery of Spinner Mujeeb ur Rahman to suit this game.
He was playing, as well as Rashid Khan, and Afghanistan had the opportunity to put pressure on New Zealand when they won a throw and picked for bats.
But it’s not for anything this kiwi is the most consistent unit throughout the format.
In the not exactly in their comfort zone, Kiwi followed the game plan that helped them break through eight goal victories with 11 spare balls.
Kiwi Pace Duo Trent Boult and the Southee team are known as a good swing bowler, but on this Abu Dhabi pitch against this Afghan batting arrangement, they found that returning with speed variations is the way to go.
Afghan batters, regardless of all the improvements they have done in several times, seemed to be sick calmly through innings against short balls.
23-3 by Afghanistan in PowerPlay has set a platform for the dominance of New Zealand and does not have extraordinary innings by Najib Zadran (73 OFF 48 Balls), the score can be under 100.
Zadran, on his side, appears to attack Mitchell Santner and Ish spinners Sodhi, and his strong shoulder and a strong arm helped him clean the fence several times.
But then, there is always a bould Wily (3-17) to fall back and he returned to his second spell to eliminate Zadran only when he threatened to give honor.
125 will never be a big enough target for challenging this kiwi.
And more when Captain Mohammed the Prophet made a mistake to hold back Rashid in PowerPlay.
While Mujeeb did make some discomfort for kiwi, the Prophet himself and Pacers like Freebies for Martin Guplill & Co.
Without too much risk, New Zealand aged 43-1 of six and nothing could be done by Rashid after that.
He still took off the Guplill and at this point, the number allowed Conway to settle and at the other end, there was Williamson, did what he did well across the format – holding the fort, spinning a strike and came with a strange big shot with a minimum commotion.