Mohammed Shami replaced the injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the Indian team for the game against Afghanistan. A more fitter Shami who had left Biryani to achieve the maximum level of fitness looked impressive right from the first bowl he bowled. He soon pick the wicket of Hazratullah Zazai to give a hope to India who were defending a low total of 225 runs.
Indian bowling line up led by Jasprit Bumrah did reasonably well to restrict the Afghanistani batsman but the resistance from Mohammad Nabi kept the Afghan team in the game. They needed 16 runs off the last over and Mohammed Shami bowled the last over for India.
What happened in the last over
49.1 over- Shami bowled a full toss and Nabi didn’t do any mistake to dispatch it for four and beat the long on fielder.
49.2 over- Nabi guided it to deep mid-wicket but denies a single to wicket-keeper batsman Ikram Ali Khil
49.3 over- Shami balls a full delivery on which Nabi tried to hit it over long-on, only ending up getting caught by Hardik Pandya.
49.4 over- Shami hits the timber and takes the wicket of Aftab Alam
49.5 over- A yorker from Shami which hits the timber again and he seals the hattrick with the wicket of Mujeeb Zadran. India won the game by 11 runs to take two points from the game.
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With this hattrick, Shami became the second Indian to achieve the milestone in world cup.
Hat tricks in World Cups
Chetan Sharma v NZ 1987
Saqlain Mushtaq v Zim 1999
C Vaas v Ban 2003
Brett Lee v Ken 2003
L Malinga v SA 2007
K Roach v Net 2011
L Malinga v Ken 2011
S Finn v Aus 2015
JP Duminy v SL 2015
SHAMI v Afg 2019
