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The 29-year-old bowler made a big record in his name. He became the fastest bowler to complete 50 wickets in this format in terms of innings for England. He achieved this feat in just 30 innings while the great bowler James Anderson had achieved this feat in 31 innings.
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England’s fast bowler Jofra Archer achieved a big feat in the ongoing Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan on Wednesday. He became the fastest bowler to complete 50 wickets in ODIs for his team. He left James Anderson behind in this matter.
Ibrahim Zadran created a sensation
The eighth match of the Champions Trophy is being played between the teams of Group B in Lahore. In this match, Afghanistan scored 325 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 50 overs due to Ibrahim Zadran’s stormy innings of 177 runs. During this, Jofra Archer took the maximum three wickets for England while Liam Livingstone got two wickets. At the same time, Jamie Overton and Adil Rashid got one wicket each.
Archer surpassed Anderson
and with this the 29-year-old bowler made a big record in his name. He became the fastest bowler to complete 50 wickets in this format in terms of innings for England. He did this feat in just 30 innings while the great bowler James Anderson did this feat in 31 innings. Archer made Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal and Rahmat Shah his victims in this match.
Zadran joins the list of legends.
Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran rocked the match. He broke the old records of Champions Trophy by batting brilliantly. Zadran scored 177 runs in 146 balls with the help of 12 fours and six sixes. This is the highest individual score of any player in Champions Trophy history. He surpassed England’s Ben Duckett who had scored 165 runs against Australia on the same ground in the previous match.
Ibrahim Zadran has left behind Kapil Dev
with this innings. Zadran has become the youngest batsman to score more than 150 runs in an ICC ODI tournament. Zadran achieved this feat at the age of 23 years 76 days, while Kapil scored more than 150 runs against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup at the age of 24 years 163 days.