The West Indies punished Afghanistan in a record-breaking power play at the ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup that included a 36-run over.
The co-hosts racked up 92 runs inside six overs, the most runs in a power play in the tournament’s history.
The fourth over was the most expensive of all with Azmatullah Omarzai conceding 36 runs in eight balls.
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The over began with batter Nicholas Pooran swinging wildly a six before Amatullah was pinged for a front-foot no-ball which was pulled for four.
Omarzai’s day went from bad to worse when an attempted bouncer went over the head of Pooran and the wicketkeeper.
His fourth ball of the over couldn’t have been better, bowling a yorker that castled Pooran – albeit on a free hit.
What followed was more carnage. The fifth ball clipped Pooran’s legs and ran away to fine leg for four runs.
Pooran swung wildly at the next ball, which went out to the vacant deep backward point before trickling away to the boundary.
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The over ended with back-to-back sixes. Omarzai cleared his front leg and launched the second-to-last ball to deep midwicket before sending the final ball back over the bowler’s head to long off.
“Magnificent over from the West Indies, magnificent from Pooran,” said Ian Bishop on commentary.
“Who bowls the next one, Rashid?”
Indeed, it was Rashid who took the reins after the brutal over. He fared only slightly better, conceding 45 runs from his four overs.
“They would not have wanted this, Afghanistan,” said Ricky Ponting.
“Rashid Khan bowling inside the power play. Something he’s not done a lot of right through his career.
“It’s only ever like a chaos moment in a game where he’ll go to himself to get that breakthrough.”
That took the score to 1-73 after four overs, which blew out to 5-218 at the end of 20 overs – the highest score for the West Indies at a T20 World Cup.
Pooran fell two runs short of a century. In the final over, he was run out on 98 (53) with three balls remaining.