NZ vs AFG: Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi urges middle-order to take more responsibility

Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi is pleased with his team’s top-order performance in the ongoing World Cup, but he wants his middle-order batters to take more responsibility. Afghanistan has scored 156, 272, and 284 runs in this event, but the majority of the runs have come from the top order.

“We know that we are doing very good at the top order. So, we have to take the responsibility as a player, everyone in the middle order. We are doing the first phase very good. When your openers are doing well in the first 20 hours, then the middle-order collapses. This kind of play can’t win you games. We have to take responsibility as a player, everyone, especially in the middle order, we have to do well to win the games,” Shahidi said ahead of Afghanistan’s next match against New Zealand in Chennai on Wednesday (October 18).