Farooqi was also selected as the Player of the Match for his performance. After his bowling in the match, Farooqi also came into the limelight because of his interview. Actually, when he was giving a post match interview, then rashid khan They were harassing him from behind and then he shouted at them during the interview rashid khan I told him to 'shut up'.

For a moment, Ian Bishop thought that maybe Farooqui had told him to shut up, so he asked Farooqui to confirm and then Farooqui told that he rashid khan He asked the boy to keep quiet because he was trying to make him laugh. The video of this funny incident is going viral on social media, which you can see below.

Talking about this match, after being invited to bat first, Papua New Guinea was all out for 95 runs in 19.5 overs. Kiplin Doriga scored the highest 27 runs, 8 players of the team could not reach the double digit figure. 4 players of the team returned to the pavilion after being run out. For Afghanistan, Fazalhaq Farooqui took 3 wickets, Naveen Ul Haq took 2 wickets and Noor Ahmed took 1 wicket. After this, Afghanistan had a bad start while chasing the target and both the openers were out on a total score of 22 runs. After this, Gulbadin Naib held one end and scored runs rapidly. Gulbadin scored an unbeaten 49 runs in 36 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes, due to which Afghanistan won by losing only 3 wickets in 15.1 overs.