Afghanistan batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz on Friday revealed that he has been taking batting ideas from India’s batting talisman Virat Kohli and World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni on the best way to enhance his efficiency. In the not too long ago concluded three-match T20I collection towards Afghanistan, Gurbaz notched up 87 runs in 3 innings. In the final T20I, he smashed a half-century in 32 balls and stitched up a 93-run stand with Ibrahim Zadran giving his workforce an opportunity to combat again towards India.

Speaking to ANI, Gurbaz mentioned, “I always talked to Virat and MS Dhoni about how to improve my cricket. I have a lot of things in my mind and I have to work on it. I was talking to Virat (bhai) about my cricket journey and how should i grow, and reach the next level.”

The closing T20I noticed double Super Over drama as Afghanistan managed to tug a rabbit out of the hat and degree India’s mammoth complete of 212 and push the sport to tremendous over. It wanted not one however two Super Overs to lastly determine the winner of the match on Wednesday.

“It was a good learning for us. This kind of game can happen. We also enjoyed the game and learned a lot from it. Playing against players like Virat and Rohit Sharma gave us a lot of confidence and learning. I hope we get a lot of series against India in future,” Gurbaz mentioned.

“We put our all in the World Cup and it was a hard-fought competition. There are some places we need to improve. I hope next time we will not make these kind of mistakes,” the Afghanistan opener added.

The 22-year-old Afghanistan batter is presently representing Dubai Capitals within the second version of the International League T20 – ILT20, beginning on Friday.

Gurbaz expressed pleasure about taking part in within the ILT20 and mentioned, ” I am excited to play. Really excited about the competition, especially playing in good weather. “

During the time of the 2023 ODI World Cup in India, a video of Gurbaz went viral wherein he was seen discreetly distributing cash to the much less lucky on the streets of Ahmedabad throughout Diwali.

Talking concerning the video Gurbaz mentioned that he needs folks to unfold humanity and assist everybody in want.

“Everyone should help each other. I went outside for a walk at night and saw people sleeping on the road and I just felt so bad for them that I decided to help them with whatever I had. We need to help each other it does not matter where we are from. We need to respect humanity. India and Afghanistan people are like same and we support each other in every situation. I think we should support each other in this kind of situation too. I did not want to share this kind of thing on social media. Someone made this kind of video which is a good message for everyone that help each other,” he added.

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