Top 10 Cricket Matches Afghanistan Lost by a Margin of 1 or 2 Runs

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The Afghanistan cricket team is considered as an associate member of International Cricket Council (ICC) with ODI status. As per reports, the team was granted ICC membership for one day internationals in 2001. However, the Afghanistan Cricket Board is known as the governing body of cricket in Afghanistan. Cricket has been played in the country since the nineteenth century, but it managed to gather recognition at international level on October 15, 2001, at the Gymkhana Ground, Peshawar in Pakistan.

Over the years, with their incredible potential and performance, the team has successfully participated as well as achieved wide recognition. But, along with their success there have been several competitions where the team failed to achieve victory with a margin of very less runs.

Moreover, the team is placed at 9th position, as per T20 International (T20I) cricket rankings of January 2021. Furthermore, the team is said to hold the world record for the highest ever T20I score, with their score of 278/3 against Ireland at Dehradun on 23 February 2019. But the past records also consist of a few matches when the team lost to their competitors with a margin of 1 or 2 runs.

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Here’s a list of some of the matches when team Afghanistan was defeated with a margin of few runs:

Match 1: Afghanistan vs England- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 22 October 2022 (T20)
Match 2: Afghanistan vs Pakistan- Afghanistan lost by 2 Runs- Played on 7 September 2022 (T20)
Match 3: Afghanistan vs New Zealand- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 7 November 2021 (T20)
Match 4: Afghanistan vs Pakistan- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 29 October 2021 (T20)
Match 5: Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 20 September 2019 (T20)
Match 6: Afghanistan vs New Zealand- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 8 June 2019 (ODI)
Match 7: Afghanistan vs Australia- Afghanistan lost by 2 Runs- Played on 1 June 2019 (ODI)
Match 8: Afghanistan vs England- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 27 May 2019 (ODI)
Match 9: Afghanistan vs Pakistan- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 21 September 2018 (ODI)
Match 10: Afghanistan vs Bangladesh- Afghanistan lost by 1 Run- Played on 5 June 2018 (T20)

Overall, the Afghanistan Men’s Cricket team has been considered as a strong and dominant one. With their innumerable contributions, they managed to register excellent victories to their names. Despite such achievements, there have been numerous instances when the team failed to achieve the matches by a margin of 1 or 2 runs. Perhaps, there have been more such instances when they were defeated by their competitors. Even after putting in a lot of effort, the team was somehow defeated in some of these interesting and exciting competitions.