Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, 2nd T20I - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

That's it from the second game. Afghanistan have been wonderful. They are back to winning ways. The WC is not too far away and every win will boost their confidence. Zimbabwe will look to fight back though as they wouldn't want to draw blank at home. We will be back with more cricketing action. Bye bye for now.

Rashid Khan | Player of the match - (Gives his PoTM cheque to Abdullah Ahmadzai). We got someone who is very good with pace, so I think we just need to give him a bit more time and he's going to have a bright future for Afghanistan. So happy for him and this is a kind of a positive motivation for him to help him and to grow more and more and give him the positive energy. That's something we always work on, like, you know, to welcome the youngster as good as possible, to give him the comfort zone and that he can just deliver his skills and talent. And so far he is enjoying it, he's loving it and looking forward to getting more of his great talent that you guys are going to see on the field and he's a great talent for Afghanistan. I think at that time I felt like, you know, if I go on to bowl a couple of overs, it's going to be very important for the team (on coming back to bowl). And if I get a couple of wickets, it's going to be something which we can restrict them under 130. And that was the kind of mindset if they scored anything 140, 140 plus. On this wicket, it's a little bit harder. The ball wasn't coming nicely onto the bat, but I think the plan worked and I came on, got a couple of wickets and brought the score down to 125. We will have tough times, but that's something which we can only take as positive and we learn from that. The big thing is the World Cup coming and how we're going to go as a team there. We had a great World Cup last year. We went to semi-final. But for us, the target is how we're going to manage ourselves and learn from our mistakes in the series we had before. Losses come, but as long as we learn from it and we improve. My finger is still bleeding a little bit, but it doesn't look good. Tomorrow I'm going to have an x-ray, so we'll see how it is.

Sikandar Raza - All I said was, gentlemen, we have defended this total and even lower than that against some of the better teams as well. So I'll not hold you accountable for the results, but I will hold you accountable for the effort , energy and attitude. And I thought the guys tried really well as well. Unfortunately, sometimes you defend these kinds of totals, but more often than not, it's very tough to defend. Especially at Harare Sports Club, because of the big ground and big pockets as well. So I cannot fault the boys for effort and energy and attitude. I thought they all were hungry. They were trying their hardest, but unfortunately it wasn't to be. One more game to go in the series. I think what we need to work on is not to be scared to throw the first punch. I think we reacted today. We weren't willing to make a mistake or try and take the first punch. I think the winner makes the most mistakes anyway and I think that we have to remind each other as well that do not second-guess yourself or question yourself. You have the ability. Just try to be positive and be a lot more precise. I don't need to motivate the boys, they are motivated anyway. We take every game very seriously when we put the jersey on. We put our heart on the sleeves for our country and we'll keep doing that.

16:35 Local Time, 14:35 GMT, 20:05 IST: Little wobble in the middle overs but Ibrahim Zadran made sure the visitors never had major hiccups. Azmatullah joined hands with Ibrahim Zadran and finished it with two overs to spare. Earlier, Zimbabwe left a lot of runs out there. They were bowled out for 125 and didn't use their full quota of overs. 126 was never going to threaten to the visitors much and it didn't. Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran got off to a flier. Then Gurbaz got out and they lost a couple more as well with the runs coming at a trickle. But the required rate was always under control. Azmat came in and played a few shots to put an end to the chase.