New Delhi. In this era of run-spewing cricket, you do not expect extra runs and extra balls from the bowlers. Such a mistake of yours can become the reason for the team's defeat and the latest example of this has been presented by Afghanistan's fast bowler Naveen Ul Haq. He forced the team to lose by bowling 13 balls in one over against Zimbabwe. Earlier, Naveen was bowling brilliantly but this over of his spoiled all the efforts.

Zimbabwe was in trouble at one time

Afghanistan, on a tour to Zimbabwe, started the 3 T20I match series against the host country in Harare on Wednesday. Batting first here, they scored 144 runs in 20 overs losing 6 wickets. Chasing the target, Zimbabwe's team was able to score 88 runs in the first 14 overs losing 2 wickets and needed 57 runs in the last 6 overs. From here, the match looked to be in Afghanistan's control.

Zimbabwe came back in the match due to mistakes of Naveen Ul Haq

But Naveen Ul Haq, who came to bowl the 15th over of the innings, made such a number of mistakes that he turned the game from slipping out of Zimbabwe's hands. Before this over, Naveen had bowled 2 overs and conceded only 4 runs, which included a maiden and a wicket. But here he strayed so far from the line that he crossed all limits.

6 wides and 1 no-ball bowled in one over

He gave away a total of 19 runs in this over by bowling 6 wides and a no ball. Captain Sikandar Raza was batting in front of him, who had just come to bat. Naveen bowled a no ball on the third ball of the over, on which Sikandar hit a four. Now to avoid the blow of free hit, Naveen bowled 4 wide balls one after the other.

Finished the over after throwing 13 balls

He bowled a total of 8 times to bowl the first two legal balls. Eventually, Sikandar hit a four on the free hit as well. And between the no ball and the free hit, he conceded 2 runs. However, after hitting a four on the free hit, Sikandar Raza (9) was out on the next ball due to a brilliant catch by Gurbaz standing at extra covers. After this, Naveen bowled 4 times including a wide to bowl the last 3 balls and thus conceded 19 runs in this over. He bowled a total of 13 times to complete the over.

Afghanistan lost the winning game

Now Zimbabwe needed only 38 runs in the last 5 overs. After this Naveen bowled the 19th over of the innings, where he took 1 more wicket for 10 runs. This was his third wicket in this match and he gave 33 runs in his quota of 4 overs. The host team needed 11 runs to win in the last 6 balls and Azmatullah Umarzai could not save it. Zimbabwe registered a thrilling win on the last ball of the match and took a 1-0 lead.