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Afghanistan seal 4-0 series win behind Rahmat Shah's unbeaten 143
Afghanistan and Ireland played the last match of a five-game cricket series.
Afghanistan had already won the series by winning three games, with one game rained out.
Ireland batted first and scored 298 runs, thanks mostly to Curtis Campher's 96 runs.
Afghanistan then needed 299 runs to win.
Their first two batters were out very quickly, leaving the team in trouble at just 22 runs.
Then captain Rahmat Shah and Sediqullah Atal batted together and added 201 runs, a record partnership for Afghanistan.
Atal scored 98 runs, just two short of a century.
Rahmat Shah stayed in and scored 143 runs, his best one-day score ever, and Afghanistan won with six wickets to spare.
The win gave Afghanistan a place in the 2027 Cricket World Cup.
Afghanistan beat Ireland by six wickets in the fifth ODI at Stormont, Belfast, winning the five-match series 4-0 after the opener was washed out.
Captain Rahmat Shah smashed an unbeaten 143 — his highest ODI score and seventh ODI hundred — in a successful chase of 299.
Shah and Sediqullah Atal (98) rescued Afghanistan from 22/2 after Liam McCarthy dismissed both openers, sharing a record 201-run third-wicket stand, Afghanistan's highest in ODIs.
Ireland posted 298/7, with Curtis Campher top-scoring with 96 off 84 balls, as Afghanistan completed their highest successful ODI run chase.
The victory secured Afghanistan's place in the 2027 Cricket World Cup and knocked the West Indies out of automatic qualification.
- Who
- Afghanistan captain Rahmat Shah (unbeaten 143) and Sediqullah Atal (98) led the chase, while Ireland's Curtis Campher (96) top-scored for the hosts.
- What
- Afghanistan chased down Ireland's 299-run target to win the fifth ODI by six wickets, completing a 4-0 series victory and their highest successful ODI run chase.
- Where
- Stormont, Belfast, Ireland.
- When
- Saturday, August 15 — though a second report dates it August 16; the articles do not state the year.
- Why
- Afghanistan needed to win the series to qualify for the 2027 Cricket World Cup, a result that also eliminated the West Indies from automatic qualification.
Key facts
- Match result
- Afghanistan won by six wickets, sealing victory in the 49th over
- Series result
- Afghanistan 4-0 over Ireland (five-match series; opener washed out)
- Afghanistan chase
- 299 runs — their highest successful ODI run chase
- Ireland total
- 298/7, led by Curtis Campher's 96 off 84 balls
- Top performer
- Rahmat Shah 143 not out — his highest ODI score and seventh ODI century
- Record partnership
- 201 runs for the third wicket (Shah and Atal), surpassing the 184 stand with Hashmatullah Shahidi in Abu Dhabi in 2021
- Venue
- Stormont, Belfast, Ireland
- World Cup impact
- Afghanistan qualified for the 2027 Cricket World Cup; West Indies must go through the World Cup Qualifiers in Africa
Sources
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