“We showed him to be incorrect.” – Rashid Khan emphasises Brian Lara’s precise forecast that Afghanistan would make it to the T20 World Cup semifinals.

Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan came forward to say that the team met Brian Lara at the welcoming party and decided to do it in his honour because he was the only one who believed in the team.

In the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024, Afghanistan made history by defeating Bangladesh in the Super Eight stage of the competition and advancing to the main event’s semifinals. destroying Australia, the great power, in the process.

The whole squad experienced intense emotions that evening. Afghanistan will play South Africa in the tournament’s semi-final. Prior to the event, numerous experts named the top four teams in the T20 World Cup, but only former West Indies batter Brian Lara included Afghanistan in his list of contenders.

Whereas Sunil Gavaskar selected India, England, Australia, and the West Indies as his four semi-finalists, Ambati Rayudu selected India, England, New Zealand, and South Africa. The only person to rank India, England, the West Indies, and Afghanistan in his top four was the renowned former cricket player Brian Lara.

It’s astounding. Brian Lara was the only one to predict that we would make it to the semifinals, and we did just that. At the post-match presentation ceremony, Rashid Khan remarked, “We won’t let you down. We met him at a welcome party.”

Being in the semi-finals is a dream come true for us: Rashid Khan

Afghanistan advanced to the World Cup semifinals by defeating Bangladesh by eight runs via the DLS method. Following the match, Rashid Khan expressed the team’s happiness and described it as a “dream come true.”

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“Being in the semifinals is a dream come true for us. When we defeated New Zealand to begin the competition, we gained confidence. Although we believed our score of 130–135 was acceptable, we were short by 15 runs. We anticipated a strong response from them, which we knew we could exploit. We only needed to be explicit in our plans and not take any more action. We talked about wanting to make people happy back home, and everyone did a fantastic job at it, Rashid Khan continued.