Here New Zealand was cruising comfortably at 109/1, and now they are at 113/4. Both the set batsmen are now back in pavilion (Will Young and Rachin Ravindra). And ironically it is the seamer Azmatullah Omarzai who did the maximum damage (at this point 1-0-1-2). Rashid Khan and Mujeeb Ur Rahman have also played their part well, by taking one wicket each.
On the kind of wicket played, 300 runs will certainly be a fighting game but since the opponent is Afghanistan, 289 runs is quite a challenging score for the Afghanistan batsmen. Afghanistan team has quality bowlers but lack of quality batsmen due to which they lost most of the matches due to failure of batsmen even though they bowled well. Afghanistan started well against England Afghanistan must start well in the second innings against New Zealand. If they can score 60 to 70 runs without a wicket in the first 10 overs of the power play, Afghanistan will be far ahead in terms of winning this match. Another weakness of Afghanistan if I mention is that if they have a wicket fall then they lose wickets regularly which is a big problem for them.