On Thursday, January 22, West Indies pacer Shamar Springer scored an incredible hat-trick against Afghanistan in the third Twenty20 International, helping his team win by 15 runs and a consolation victory in the three-match series. Afghanistan appeared to be leading the 152-run chase with six wickets remaining and 25 runs needed off 12 balls, but Springer’s penultimate over changed the tide of the match.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz was dismissed by Springer at the start of the over when Matthew Forde caught him at deep square leg on the first delivery.
After dismissing Rashid Khan at backward point on the subsequent delivery, he completed his maiden T20I hat-trick with a precise yorker that sent Shahidullah back to the pavilion.
With this achievement, Springer became the third bowler from West India to achieve a T20I hat-trick, behind Jason Holder and Romario Shepherd. Surprisingly, this was also the second hat-trick of the series, after Mujeeb Ur Rahman’s in the second Twenty20 International. This was the first time two Full Member teams had scored successive hat-tricks in a men’s Twenty20 International series.
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Afghanistan had won the second Twenty20 International by 39 runs thanks to Mujeeb’s previous heroics. In the eighth over of the West Indies’ innings, he removed Evin Lewis and Johnson Charles on consecutive deliveries. On the first delivery of the sixteenth over, he removed Brandon King, ensuring Afghanistan won both the match and the series after winning the first Twenty20 International by 38 runs.
Brandon King led the West Indies in scoring in the third game with 47 off 35 balls, while the other top five batters received starts but were unable to convert them. In the end, the team scored 151/8 thanks to a respectable effort by Springer (16 off 9) and Matthew Forde (27 off 11).
Gurbaz (71) and Ibrahim Zadran (28) put up 72 runs for the first wicket in 10 overs, giving Afghanistan a great start to their chase. But the middle order fell apart, losing four wickets and scoring just 43 runs in the following seven overs. They were still in the hunt with 12 runs off the 18th over, but Springer’s hat-trick in the penultimate over gave the West Indies the victory.
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