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Mujeeb Ur Rahman first led the way with 4/43 to the bowl out Windies for 204 in 46.5 overs. Mohammad Shahzad, in his usual flamboyant style, then cracked a 93-ball 84 as Afghanistan reached 206/3 in just 40.4 overs, Mohammad Nabi finishing the job with three sixes in a row off Chris Gayle. That completes a comeback for a team which had started the competition with three successive losses before running up a sequence of five wins to take home the trophy. Afghanistan had a greater challenge of demonstrating its full potential and be luckier in the super-six stage to play in the final of the tournament. Since Afghanistan has not carried any points from first round to the second round, it looked unlikely for the Blue Tigers to become one of the finalists. Afghanistan not only had to win all its remaining matches but the result of some other encounters had to go in favour of Afghanistan too. The team did its part with defeating West Indies by 3 wickets, and UAE and Ireland by 5 wickets ...