Afghanistan bowled out South Africa for 106 to seal their first ever ODI win in cricket.
Afghanistan's cricketers claimed their historic first ever victory in a one-day international (ODI) match over South Africa, recording a comfortable six-wicket win in the first of a three-match series on Wednesday in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
South Africa were bowled out for 106 in 33.3 overs, having fallen to 36-7 in the 10th over, leaving Afghanistan with a modest target which they easily achieved in 26 overs.
Gulbadin Naib (34) and Azmatullah Omarzai (25) were not left out in the end and took Afghanistan home with an unbeaten partnership of 47 runs.
Fazalhaq Farooqi took 4-35 for the winners as they defeated the top-ranked South Africans on a flat track in hot weather conditions.
Wiaan Mulder top-scored for the Proteas with 52 off 84 balls (it was the 26-year-old's highest ODI score and his first fifty for South Africa) before he was eventually bowled out by Fazalhaq.
His 39-run partnership with Bjorn Fortuin for South Africa's eighth wicket was the highlight of a dismal innings and the latter's 2-22 from his nine overs was again little more than a stalemate of the inevitable in Afghanistan's chase.
