Afghanistan go winless after a 28 run defeat to West Indies despite good fight.

Afghanistan and west indies faced off each other in a dead rubber at leeds. Both teams wanted to finish the world cup with a win. West indies won the toss and opted to bat on a flat wicket. The west indies goes strong after they lost out of form gayle early. After that lewis and hope added 88 for the second wicket. Lewis falls for rashid khan on 58. After that  shimron hetmyer showed some bangs and tongs with bat to lift west indies to 174 before hetmyer was dismissed by dawlat. After hope was out on 77 nicholas pooran and jason holder lifted the west indian innings to 311 for the loss of six wickets in fifty overs. For Afghanistan dawlat zadran picked up the couple of wickets.
Chasing a stiff 312 runs for victory Afghanistan lost skipper naib for just five runs of the bowling of roach. After that ikram khalil and rahmat shah batted superbly and added 133 runs for the second wicket. At one stage it looked Afghanistan will chase this down and will register their first win but after they lost ikram khalil on 86 of the bowling if gayle the team lost momentum. Despite asghar afghans quick fire 40 afghan team lost wickets on regular intervals to fell short of the run chase. Carlos brathwaite was the star of carribean bowling attack picking up four crucial scalps. Afghanistan did fighted strongly as usual they did against the likes of your Pakistan, imdia and sri lanka. In the end Afghanistan managed only 288 runs in their fifty overs falling short by 23 runs to hand west indies their second win of this event. For west indies carlos brathwaite was the star with bowling after a figures of 4-63 supported by roach who took three scalps for 37 runs. With that loss Afghanistan go home winless from nine matches of their campaign.

Match Summary
West Indies 311-6 overs 50
Hope 77
Pooran 58
Dawlat 2-73
Afghanistan 288 overs 50
Ikram khalil 86
Rahmat shah 62
Brathwaite 4-63
Roach 3-37
West indies won by 23 runs.