Recently, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 ended with the victory of the Indian team. India, England, Afghanistan and South Africa made it to the semi-finals. However, when the tournament started, no one thought that Afghanistan would make it to the last four.

Let us tell you that after the team’s amazing performance in the group stage, the Afghan team made it to the T20 World Cup semi-finals for the first time, and then showed amazing performance in the semi-finals and defeated a strong team like Australia by 21 runs, knocking them out of the tournament.

With this win, Afghanistan also avenged their crushing defeat against Australia in the World Cup 2023. Also, Australia had refused to play a bilateral series against Afghanistan in Afghanistan.

The biggest reason behind this was the Taliban’s ban on women’s participation in sports. Due to this, Cricket Australia refused to send the team to Afghanistan. On the other hand, now a big statement has come from former Australian captain Tim Paine on Australia’s defeat.

Tim Paine gave a big statement on Australia’s defeat in T20 World Cup

Let us tell you that recently former Australian wicketkeeper batsman Tim Paine, in an interview with Crictracker, said about Australia’s defeat to Afghanistan – I do not believe that we do not play bilateral matches with them.

I think Afghanistan played really well in the T20 World Cup in conditions that suited them and they are getting better and better. There is no doubt that they have a lot of depth in their team now.

Paine further said- They now have some players who can take the game away from you with the bat and obviously they always have Rashid Khan, who can easily win you the game. They can do better with the ball at any level and T20 cricket is one of their strong sides.