Afghanistan beat Namibia by an innings and 36 rushes to move to third place in Intercontinental Cup 2015-17

Afghanistan beat Namibia by an innings and 36 keeps running in their third match of the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2015-2016/17 on Tuesday. Afghanistan won the four-day diversion with a day to save at Greater Noida, which is their second home ground after Dubai. The victor of the Intercontinental Cup will play two Tests against the last-positioned Test side and the champ will acquire a Test status. The Afghans who have won and completed as runners up in the past two versions (2009-10 and 2011-13) have been doing great with two wins from three matches played so far in this present season's competition. They right now are on the third spot in the focuses table with 41 focuses behind any semblance of Netherlands (46) and Ireland (60). Perused: The ascent and ascent of Afghanistan cricket Namibia won the hurl and has batted first before Afghanistan packaged them out for 172 in 62.1 overs. An aggregate of five Namibia batsmen were rejected for a solitary digit, while their opener Pikky Ya France top-scored with a 123-ball thump of 45. Afghanistan's most experienced bowler kept running over the Namibians with his five-wicket pull in 20.1 overs. Alternate wickets were picked by Dawalt Zadran, Rahmat Shah and Zahir Khan. 

Afghanistan beat Namibia by an innings and 36 rushes to move to third place in Intercontinental Cup 2015-17

In the interim, Afghanistan's opener Mohammad Shahzad, who was a gigantic excitement in the as of late finished up ICC World T20 2016 at the end of the day ventured up to play a great thump of 139 from 245 balls. His innings helped Afghanistan take a lead of 162 keeps running before Namibia knocked down some pins them out for 334 in 118.5 overs. Namibia turned out to bat again and endured just for 35.3 overs as the youthful Zahir kept running over the adversaries taking his lady five-wicket pull to guarantee a second win for his nation in this release of Intercontinental Cup. Namibia's Ya France was again their pick of the batsman with a 91-ball 40. While he stayed at the wrinkle, his partners discarded wickets from the flip side. 

At the point when Dawalt Zadran caught him leg before wicket in the 34th more than, a triumph for Afghanistan was not exceptionally far away. After his rejection, Namibia got knocked down some pins out in the following two overs, giving Afghanistan critical 14 focuses. The match showcased the tremendous ability in the 17-year-old Zahir, who was playing just his second First-Class match for Afghanistan. He made his presentation in their past amusement against Papua New Guinea at Sharjah towards the end of 2015. It was without a doubt a children's story debut as he went ahead to pack seven scalps at a fabulous economy of 3.42. In spite of the fact that Afghanistan thumped out of the World T20 after the gathering stage, they were the main side to vanquish the possible champions West Indies. The Windies were relentless until that diversion and the way Afghanistan pulled of a nearby win towards the end won thousands hearts over the cricketing countries. They batted first and oversaw just 123 in 20 overs. The best was saved for the second innings when a joined exertion from their rocking the bowling alley division figured out how to stop any semblance of Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Carlos Brathwaite and Andre Russell from pursuing down that unimportant aggregate. Ireland and Netherlands who are on the top are yet to face Afghanistan in the Intercontinental Cup 2015-2016-17. All the three sides have been in a fantastic structure, it will enthusiasm to watch if the Irish and Dutch will keep on dominating or Asghar Stanikzai and Co open the Cup totally open and put themselves forward to challenge the trophy. 

Brief scores: 

Namibia 172 (Pikky Ya France 46, Nicholaas Scholtz 25; Mohammad Nabi 5 for 25, Zahir Khan 3 for 21) and 126 (Pikky Ya France 40; Gerhard Erasmus 35; Dawlat Zadran 3 for 7, Zahir Khan 5 for 31) lost to Afghanistan 334 (Mohammad Shezad 139, Afsar Zazai 49; Zhivago Groenewald 3 for 84, Gerrie Snyman 4 for 78) by an innings and 36 runs.