AFG vs CAN

This brings our live coverage to a close. We hope you were thoroughly entertained by this fixture. We have one more league stage game to go with Australia due to take on Oman at Pallekele tomorrow at 7 PM local time. For now, this is Datrim Ray signing off on behalf of the entire Sportskeeda team. Cheers!

10:29 PM local time (10:29 PM IST): Afghanistan have won by 82 runs

Ibrahim Zadran - 95 (56) | Mohammed Nabi - 4/7
Yash Thaker, 30 (24) | Jaskaran Singh Buttar - 3/52

Afghanistan crushes Canada by 82 runs! They end their T20 World Cup campaign with a win in their final league game. Canada walk away winless for now but will aim to bounce back once they get an opportunity again for the 2028 T20 World Cup. Samra and Bajwa gave Canada an ideal start. But the moment the spinners were introduced, Canada found themselves all at sea. Nabi returned mind-boggling figures of 4-7 to decimate Canada's middle order. Other spinners, including Mujeeb and Nabi, kept the pressure and continued to chip away with wickets at regular intervals. Yash led the fight back with a steady 30, but the Afghani spinners were able to overcome him. Earlier in the piece, it was Ibrahim Zadran who set the stage alight with his sensational 95. His knock made the real difference and paved the way for a huge win for Afghanistan tonight. 

19.6 Ziaur Rahman Sharifi to Jaskaran Singh Buttar, RAPPED ON THE PAD AND GONE! All over for Canada! Ziaur fires a searing yorker on middle. That ball tails back in and strikes Buttar on his back leg. Replay confirms that the ball would have marginally drifted down leg. Canada do not lose a wicket but end up conceding a hughe 82-run defeat to Afghanistan!

19.3 Ziaur Rahman Sharifi to Ansh Patel, slower ball on the pads. Tucked away to short midwicket for a single. Direct hit would have been gone!

18.5 Abdullah Ahmadzai to Jaskaran Singh Buttar, SIX! Some late flourish for Jaskaran! Low full toss angling into the pads. Jasakaran opens up his stance and launches it over deep midwicket for a maximum. 

18.3 Abdullah Ahmadzai to Jaskaran Singh Buttar, OHH DEAR! What has happened there? The ball has flown all the way away to the boundary but Afghanistan decide to review. That was a yorker length ball which Buttar tried to dispatch. But he does not get any bat on it and the ball goes on to clip the back side of his front pad. Ball tracking shows that the ball pitched outside leg. It's going to be 4 leg byes for Canada!