World Cup fever: NZ v Afghanistan has all the symptoms

Just how did we get here?

Two teams, who have never played each other outside of World Cups, and never in a T20 International before, are ready to match wits as if they have been at it for generations. There's little history to this rivalry, a great deal of cordial indifference and absolutely no bad blood, and yet here we are on pins and needles, getting the heebie-jeebies theorizing who will come out victorious. Remarkably, it could neither be New Zealand nor Afghanistan.

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