Unfortunately, Afghanistan didn't took the wickets of key players Rassie van der Dussen but Rashid Khan took 2/37 and Mohammad Nabi 2/35 a brilliant fight from the Afghanistan spinners against South Africa. South Africa winning it by 5 wickets because of brilliant innings of Rassie van der Dussen 74 unbeaten. Afghanistan is now officially out of wold cup, they win 4 matches out of 9 matches in this world cup. Afghanistan beaten first time 3 world champions Pakistan, Srilanka and England.
Today's match was irrelevant for all practical purposes. Afghanistan should be happy with the fact that they qualified for the 2025 Champions Trophy. When the tournament started, I didn't had much hope for Afghanistan, as their recent form was very poor. Even during the Asia Cup, they failed to qualify for the Super-4 stage. But they surprised everyone in this tournament. After the initial setback against Bangladesh, they managed to defeat three very strong teams (Sri Lanka, England and Pakistan). There are a lot of positives for Afghanistan to take away from this tournament.
There is no doubt this was one of the best end for the Afghanistan, or we can call this is start of the new era for them in white-ball format they have done impressive performance specially with the help of the host India which was giving them some special treatment throughout event but their defeat in first game against Bangladesh was really setback for them otherwise things can go much better for them.
Their wins against teams like England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is historic and ending above against teams like Sri Lanka and England is also giving all how they are dedicated to this game in near future as well they need to change their on field behavior as team and also works on batting can bring improvement which could be helpful for them to stay at the better spot.