Summary

  • New Zealand beat Afghanistan by seven wickets to make it three wins from three

  • NZ captain Kane Williamson top-scores with unbeaten 79 off 99 balls

  • Aftab takes all three wickets for Afghanistan, who have lost all three so far

  • Afghanistan bowled out in 41.1 overs - Hashmatullah makes 59 off 99 balls

  • NZ's Neesham takes best 2019 World Cup figures of 5-31; Ferguson 4-37

  • Day-night match at County Ground, Taunton

  • Follow in-play clips & TMS commentary (UK only)

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance and Callum Matthews

  1. 50 runs

    50 for Hashmatullah

    Shot! New Zealand bring the fielders in and Hashmatullah swats the ball through long on for four. Fifty, celebrated jubilantly in the stands, off 84 balls.

  2. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson checks on Rashid Khan after he was hit in the helmet in being bowledGetty Images

    Rashid was hurt by that bouncer which got him out but he was fine in the end.

  3. Afg 158-9

    Well run, a quick single to end the over and keep Hashmatullah on strike. He needs four for his 50.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    That's a shame. I thought he might sleep in it.

  5. Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I can report Hamid Hassan doesn't wear any war paint when he bats.

    Hamid HassanReuters

  6. Afg 157-9

    I've never been to Taunton but the arty shots the TV coverage are using are painting it in a very nice light. Looks lovely.

    Hashmatullah gets into the game, a real hoik at a fast ball which nearly ends up with him being caught but instead lands safe and spins away for four.

  7. Afg 153-9

    Hamid Hassan is the new batsman, he averages seven. And he gets four of those first ball up, just a defensive prod really and the pace of Lockie Ferguson sees him push it all the way to the fence!

    That brings up the 150. And he then mistimes a pull for a few more.

  8. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    It was only a matter of time. His luck has run out.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Aftab c Latham b Ferguson 14 (Afg 147-9)

    Booooooo.

    Aftab Alam was here for a good time, not a long time. He clubs another shot sky high, this time he doesn't get away with it though as wicketkeeper Tom Latham is able to run to his right and cling on to the ball.

  10. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    It was the same thing again. Clear the leg and just smash it anywhere.

    The crowd love it. I love it.

  11. Afg 147-8

    Aftab 14, Hashmatullah 41

    Me too. All a bit Devon Malcolm.

    Aftab now baseball swings a fast straight ball from Lockie Ferguson to the fence for another four. He then top edges another one for a one-bounce four!

    Smash it anywhere.

  12. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    I am very much enjoying Aftab Alam's approach to this game.

  13. Adam Williams
    BBC Sport at Taunton

    Earlier in this tournament, cricket journalist Jarrod Kimber who has been following Afghanistan's rise to Test status very closely in recent years, described them as "a team of number eights".

    Well, Jarrod might well be revising that down a couple of places after seeing some of the shot selection in recent overs.

    It's brave and gutsy, but sadly very naive at the same time. Again, they look like they'll fall well short of batting out their allotted 50 overs.

  14. Simon Mann
    TMS commentator

    That was a horrible shot. It was a flap more than anything.

    There will be quite a few shots played like that on village greens around the UK today.

  15. Afg 139-8

    Fine yorker from Trent Boult, fast and inswinging but Hashmatullah jabs down and digs it out. Aftab, by far the most entertaining man to watch so far, then tries to smash Boult into Yeovil but gets nowhere near it.

  16. Afg 137-8

    Trent Boult gets the ball back, he'll want some tail-end wickets to his name. He has a slip and fizzes a bouncer past Aftab.

    Hashmatullah could end up stranded short of his 50. He's on 40 at the moment.

  17. Simon Mann
    TMS commentator

    I think Lockie Ferguson has passed on a few thoughts after that stroke. It was agricultural to say the least.

  18. Afg 135-8

    Aftab Alam is the new batsman - and that's the shot of the day! Straight and fast ball, he just clears some room by stepping to leg and spanks a shot away for four.

    Fine shot!

    I'm not sure about the footwork and he may not be around for long, but that was ace.

  19. Simon Mann
    TMS commentator

    This has been efficient from New Zealand.

  20. Drinks break

    He ended up leaning into the ball which was in the high 80s of mph. Ouch.

    The players are taking drinks.