ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[romero121]

The Afghanistan team had accumulated enough runs till the power play. If Afghanistan could collect runs in this way then surely a big score would have been gifted to the England team. But with the destruction of 4 wickets, the Afghanistan team faced a lot of pressure. Especially Adil Rashid of England team bowled 7 overs and destroyed 2 wickets with only 29 runs.  In this way, if the Afghanistan team continues to lose wickets, it will not be possible to collect more runs. Because many of the England team are strong here, the chances of the England team winning today are very high.

Afghanistan played their best from the start today and I think the team managed to put up a good score. As Afghanistan were all out for 284 it was not a low run but a huge score. All in all, Afghanistan batsmen today put in a good batting performance to score so many runs against England. Although we know England to be a strong team, but looking at the lineup of Afghanistan bowlers in today's match, England seems to be under a lot of pressure. England couldn't bat very well from the beginning, but they had to bat under a lot of pressure due to the fall of wickets. With England's batsmen currently depressing, it looks like it will be very difficult for the team to win. Harry Brook is keeping the England team alive at the moment, having lost 6 wickets and scored 138 runs in 27.1 overs. If Harry Brook is out then the England team will definitely lose today, moreover the England team is under a lot of pressure due to the fall of wickets at the moment. England's chances of winning today seem very slim, and their poor batting performance has disappointed the visitors a lot.

I am actually shocked to see the performance from England. Afghanistan did well to get 284. But I still would have said that their target was never going to be enough for them to win against England. But looking at the score right now, I am not so sure about that. Right now, the score is 160/6. Almost 33 overs have been played.
England needs more than seven runs per over to win. And now they have only four wickets in hand. It was actually seven down for England but they just used a review.

Well, as I was writing this, they lost another wicket anyway. So it is seven down for them. Right now, the score is 160/7 after exactly 33 overs.

England have lost 9 wickets and scored 199 runs so far and they still need 86 runs in 11 overs which they will not be able to do. Today's winner Afghanistan is sure that there is no way for England to win this match. England would lose all wickets before completing the full fifty overs. And with Afghanistan they will lose the match by a huge margin of runs. Afghanistan is batting  as well as bowling brilliantly. However, England is far ahead of Afghanistan in the points table, yet it is unimaginable that England is losing so badly. After today's match, Afghanistan will reach a good position in the points table

Big day for Afghanistan as they've won the match against England by 69 runs. One of the unexpected result of the World Cup have taken place today. Batting from Gurbaz is really impressive and missed his century for an unwanted run out. Ikram Alikhil contributed good when the team kept losing wickets. 284 runs is really good and an unlucky day for England as it is second loss in the World Cup. Pacers and spin bowling had contributed equally. At the tail end Rashid Khan took the Wickets for a faster win. Other than Harry Brook no solid score came from England players being the reason for the loss.

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[Mahdirakib]

Welp! There goes my awesome winning streak. The current World Cup champions are going to lose against Afghanistan which just goes to show the state of the England ODI team at present.
They are badly missing Stokes. Favorites to win the cup seem to be NZ, SA and India based on recent performances.

Agree with you, although England was in the favorite team list to qualify for the semifinals easily. But now it looks like it is going to be difficult for them. India, NZ and SA are definitely favourite for the semifinals journey now. I didn't expect that England will lose today's match. A great performance from the Afghanistan team. The presence of Stokes wouldn't make much difference in today's match. The spinners have done well for both teams.

[TakeItEasy]

England have lost 9 wickets and scored 199 runs so far and they still need 86 runs in 11 overs which they will not be able to do. Today's winner Afghanistan is sure that there is no way for England to win this match. England would lose all wickets before completing the full fifty overs. And with Afghanistan they will lose the match by a huge margin of runs. Afghanistan is batting  as well as bowling brilliantly. However, England is far ahead of Afghanistan in the points table, yet it is unimaginable that England is losing so badly. After today's match, Afghanistan will reach a good position in the points table

This is the big upset match of 2023 in which England is beaten by Afghanistan. England all out on 215 runs as they failed to reach the given target of 285. Except for Harry Brook, no one played a good innings as he made 66 runs in 61 balls with 7 fours and a six. Except for this player, no one hits a six in the team England.

Whether Afghanistan played good cricket today, Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 80 runs in 57 balls consisting of 8 fours and 4 blistering sixes. Also, Ikram Alikhil played some good shots for the side of Afghanistan with 2 sixes and 3 fours.

However, that was an upsetting game because, from the England team, we didn't expect that, even though they had a strong batting lineup and a strong bowling lineup. But sometimes it happens even with the best teams in the World.

[MusaPk]

This is the big upset match of 2023 in which England is beaten by Afghanistan. England all out on 215 runs as they failed to reach the given target of 285. Except for Harry Brook, no one played a good innings as he made 66 runs in 61 balls with 7 fours and a six. Except for this player, no one hits a six in the team England.

Whether Afghanistan played good cricket today, Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 80 runs in 57 balls consisting of 8 fours and 4 blistering sixes. Also, Ikram Alikhil played some good shots for the side of Afghanistan with 2 sixes and 3 fours.

However, that was an upsetting game because, from the England team, we didn't expect that, even though they had a strong batting lineup and a strong bowling lineup. But sometimes it happens even with the best teams in the World.

I don't think its an upset as Afghanistan is as good as any test playing team in this tournament. England took the right decision of bowling first but its the Afghan batting that surprised English bowlers by giving a target of 285 runs today. England batting failed miserably today, they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. England now have lost 2 of there matches in this WC and they don't have options to lose any of there remaining game. 

[BitcoinsGreat]

Welp! There goes my awesome winning streak. The current World Cup champions are going to lose against Afghanistan which just goes to show the state of the England ODI team at present.

They are badly missing Stokes. Favorites to win the cup seem to be NZ, SA and India based on recent performances.

The team of Afghanistan played very well and they deserved to win this match and they won. Mujeeb Ur Rahman is the player of the match, his batting is not good but he do awesome bowling, he played wonderfully in today’s match. Not only does Mujeeb Ur Rahman play well other players are equally played like Mujeeb Ur Rahman. They also took too many wickets. Rashid Khan also took 3 wickets and also he gave just 37 scores and Mujeeb Ur Rahman gave 51 scores so I think that Rashid Khan should be the player of the match but Mujeeb Ur Rahman also did average batting so that’s why he had the player of the match. This is a happy moment for Afghanistan because they can come back for the World Cup. They won their first match of this World Cup.

[3kpk3]

I don't think its an upset as Afghanistan is as good as any test playing team in this tournament. England took the right decision of bowling first but its the Afghan batting that surprised English bowlers by giving a target of 285 runs today. England batting failed miserably today, they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. England now have lost 2 of there matches in this WC and they don't have options to lose any of there remaining game.  

Not an upset? Afg good as any test playing team? Seriously? They are only good in the T-20 format and perform pretty badly in other formats which is why you are wrong and this is definitely a huge upset.

What helped Afghanistan the most here is the spin friendly pitch and great batting performances by the top, middle and lower order.

[TakeItEasy]

You cannot drop the whole shit on the bowlers it is impossible for them to prevent them from bating or taking wickets as they also go under pressure, the three wickets they take are their big achievement. The whole thing did are the middle order They were out on just 2 or 4 runs. In the beginning, the match went smoothly but after 140 runs they all dropped very easily just Rizwan and Baber gave the runs. It was very disappointing for the Pakistan Crickets fans we watched just for the aggressive battle but they won the match very easily you can't neglect the performance of the Indian team they are the strongest and have the ability to defeat every team in this World Cup and seem like they will win this world cup just like the Asia cup.

As bowlers are also part of the team, they should also make better for the Team but the Pakistani bowlers didn't play well. And I had already told that both batsmen and bowlers made mistakes. Firstly, the batsmen didn't play well at their spots, and then the bowlers didn't provide their best. This was the bad area of their play.

Recently they played brilliant cricket at Asia Cup and now they are not playing according to the plays they have to need. Looking at their top-order batsmen, their main pacers in bowling, all failed to provide a step ahead. I hope they should make themselves better in the upcoming matches if they want to make themselves up the points table.

[Crypto Library]

Big day for Afghanistan as they've won the match against England by 69 runs. One of the unexpected result of the World Cup have taken place today. Batting from Gurbaz is really impressive and missed his century for an unwanted run out. Ikram Alikhil contributed good when the team kept losing wickets. 284 runs is really good and an unlucky day for England as it is second loss in the World Cup. Pacers and spin bowling had contributed equally. At the tail end Rashid Khan took the Wickets for a faster win. Other than Harry Brook no solid score came from England players being the reason for the loss.

I think most gamblers today lose their bets. Such a good performance from Afghanistan, again against a strong team like England, I think it was unexpected by most people. I think England's loss to Afghanistan could set England back a lot in this World Cup. As Afghanistan have been one of the weakest teams in this World Cup, and lossing with them, England's lack of points in the points table will certainly be noticeable.
However, England's next matches are going to be against stronger team, so I think England lost a big advantage in this match. However today I will praise Afghanistan's batting performance more than their bowling performance. Because in this year's World Cup, it is seen that the run score is high in most of the teams. However, I would like to congratulate the Afghanistan team for their upcoming matches.

[JunkieMiner]

Tomorrow will be a match between Australia and Sri Lanka. Australia's batting is good enough to chase down good targets but don't know what they did in the previous match against India. Also, the Sri Lanka Cricket Team has a better batsman like Kusal Mendis who hits the most sixes and he is hitting after every 6 balls as an individual. We can see them at tomorrow's match at Ekana Sports City, Lucknow which is located in India. You can also watch live matches on different channels.

[kro55]

Big day for Afghanistan as they've won the match against England by 69 runs. One of the unexpected result of the World Cup have taken place today. Batting from Gurbaz is really impressive and missed his century for an unwanted run out. Ikram Alikhil contributed good when the team kept losing wickets. 284 runs is really good and an unlucky day for England as it is second loss in the World Cup. Pacers and spin bowling had contributed equally. At the tail end Rashid Khan took the Wickets for a faster win. Other than Harry Brook no solid score came from England players being the reason for the loss.

I think most gamblers today lose their bets. Such a good performance from Afghanistan, again against a strong team like England, I think it was unexpected by most people. I think England's loss to Afghanistan could set England back a lot in this World Cup. As Afghanistan have been one of the weakest teams in this World Cup, and lossing with them, England's lack of points in the points table will certainly be noticeable.
However, England's next matches are going to be against stronger team, so I think England lost a big advantage in this match. However today I will praise Afghanistan's batting performance more than their bowling performance. Because in this year's World Cup, it is seen that the run score is high in most of the teams. However, I would like to congratulate the Afghanistan team for their upcoming matches.

No one expected Afghanistan to win today's match. Lots of gamblers lost bets today. This was a completely unexpected result. We did not perform well in the first two matches against Afghanistan. Even against Bangladesh, the team is playing very badly. On the other hand, after the defeat in the first match, England dominated and won the second match. No one would have guessed that they would play so badly in today's match. Also Afghanistan was not a strong team.

Both batsmen and bowlers of Afghanistan have done very well. A target of 284 runs can be said to be a big enough target on this pitch. The pitch was spin bowling friendly. Afghanistan's bowlers bowled controlled from the beginning of the innings. So they got a pretty easy win.

[Minor Miner]

Tomorrow will be a match between Australia and Sri Lanka. Australia's batting is good enough to chase down good targets but don't know what they did in the previous match against India. Also, the Sri Lanka Cricket Team has a better batsman like Kusal Mendis who hits the most sixes and he is hitting after every 6 balls as an individual. We can see them at tomorrow's match at Ekana Sports City, Lucknow which is located in India. You can also watch live matches on different channels.

Both Australia and Sri Lanka lost their first two matches. And Australia is currently the last team in the points table. So the next match is very important for them. Australia will definitely try their best to qualify for the semi-finals.

The main reason for Australia's defeat in the first two matches was their batting weakness. Batsmen are not in good rhythm. So Australia lost badly in both matches. Sri Lanka's bowlers are quite good but their performances are erratic. South Africa scored the highest run in World Cup history against Sri Lanka. And so Australia has a good chance to win this match. I believe Australia will win only if the batsmen perform well.

[GbitG]

Agree with you, although England was in the favorite team list to qualify for the semifinals easily. But now it looks like it is going to be difficult for them. India, NZ and SA are definitely favourite for the semifinals journey now. I didn't expect that England will lose today's match. A great performance from the Afghanistan team. The presence of Stokes wouldn't make much difference in today's match. The spinners have done well for both teams.

Yeah, definitely if stokes were included in their squad then may be result will be difficult because he is calm minded and never take pressure during difficult situation and can Handel situation, anyway Afghanistan makes a history by defeating first ever win against England in ODI world cup, I can't believe that they can brutally defeat such a strong side like England which was predicted by dozen of journalists as a strong contender of semifinals. All credit of this victory goes to spin trio of Afghanistan who took important wickets at right time and defend a decent target and also credit goes to gurbaz for spectacular inning

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Welp! There goes my awesome winning streak. The current World Cup champions are going to lose against Afghanistan which just goes to show the state of the England ODI team at present.

They are badly missing Stokes. Favorites to win the cup seem to be NZ, SA and India based on recent performances.

England does have a good team and the same members won them their first world cup, never saw this coming in this match, England loosing like this against Afghanistan but Afghanistan bowled really well and then recovered really well when the wickets started to tumble after their century opening partnership and if not for their tail end batsman there is no way they were reaching 250 let alone the score they posted.

With this kind of bowling performance from Afghanistan, highly doubt Ben Stokes would have made any difference.

[Popkon6]

Big day for Afghanistan as they've won the match against England by 69 runs. One of the unexpected result of the World Cup have taken place today. Batting from Gurbaz is really impressive and missed his century for an unwanted run out. Ikram Alikhil contributed good when the team kept losing wickets. 284 runs is really good and an unlucky day for England as it is second loss in the World Cup. Pacers and spin bowling had contributed equally. At the tail end Rashid Khan took the Wickets for a faster win. Other than Harry Brook no solid score came from England players being the reason for the loss.

I think most gamblers today lose their bets. Such a good performance from Afghanistan, again against a strong team like England, I think it was unexpected by most people. I think England's loss to Afghanistan could set England back a lot in this World Cup. As Afghanistan have been one of the weakest teams in this World Cup, and lossing with them, England's lack of points in the points table will certainly be noticeable.
However, England's next matches are going to be against stronger team, so I think England lost a big advantage in this match. However today I will praise Afghanistan's batting performance more than their bowling performance. Because in this year's World Cup, it is seen that the run score is high in most of the teams. However, I would like to congratulate the Afghanistan team for their upcoming matches.

I never imagined that the batsmen of the England team would drop so much. Because England is currently a very strong team which lost by a huge margin to Afghanistan team. Everyone in the Afghanistan team has collected some runs, but the batting of the England team has not been able to score any runs. In this match, the Afghanistan team could not be under much pressure in terms of bowling due to which the players of the Afghanistan team collected a lot. Especially the start of wicket fall from the beginning of the game which forced the England team to lose.

[Westinhome]

I am actually shocked to see the performance from England. Afghanistan did well to get 284. But I still would have said that their target was never going to be enough for them to win against England. But looking at the score right now, I am not so sure about that. Right now, the score is 160/6. Almost 33 overs have been played.
England needs more than seven runs per over to win. And now they have only four wickets in hand. It was actually seven down for England but they just used a review.

Well, as I was writing this, they lost another wicket anyway. So it is seven down for them. Right now, the score is 160/7 after exactly 33 overs.

Actually many shocked with the today game result,but the fact is the bowling of the Afghanistan was good enough.They had won the title winner of 2019.So this will made the England to move bottom of the table like Australia.If this was continues the Australia and England will not qualify for the semi final.England was the father of cricket game.If the Australia and England doesn’t qualify for the semi final,this will be huge insult to this team.So this two team need to improve their game in the upcoming games.The Afghanistan had really proved today,they are also had the good cricket game today.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Agree with you, although England was in the favorite team list to qualify for the semifinals easily. But now it looks like it is going to be difficult for them. India, NZ and SA are definitely favourite for the semifinals journey now. I didn't expect that England will lose today's match. A great performance from the Afghanistan team. The presence of Stokes wouldn't make much difference in today's match. The spinners have done well for both teams.

Yeah, definitely if stokes were included in their squad then may be result will be difficult because he is calm minded and never take pressure during difficult situation and can Handel situation, anyway Afghanistan makes a history by defeating first ever win against England in ODI world cup, I can't believe that they can brutally defeat such a strong side like England which was predicted by dozen of journalists as a strong contender of semifinals. All credit of this victory goes to spin trio of Afghanistan who took important wickets at right time and defend a decent target and also credit goes to gurbaz for spectacular inning

I really missed Stokes and Moeen Ali in today's match. If these two players were present in this match, the result of the match might have  been different. Stokes is an excellent batsman. And I have seen many times that Stokes  is capable of batting responsibly under pressure. And he is also capable of batting at a smart strike rate. On the other hand since today's pitch was spin-friendly, I don't know why Moeen Ali was not kept in the squad. Moeen Ali is used to playing on Indian pitches. He performs regularly in IPL. So it was necessary to keep Moeen Ali in the squad on such a pitch. Hopefully we will  see Stokes and Moeen  Ali in the squad in the next match.
England's next match is against South Africa. South Africa is a very tough opponent. South African batsmen are in very good form. So it will be very difficult for England to win this match.

[ThemePen]

Actually many shocked with the today game result,but the fact is the bowling of the Afghanistan was good enough.They had won the title winner of 2019.So this will made the England to move bottom of the table like Australia.If this was continues the Australia and England will not qualify for the semi final.England was the father of cricket game.If the Australia and England doesn’t qualify for the semi final,this will be huge insult to this team.So this two team need to improve their game in the upcoming games.The Afghanistan had really proved today,they are also had the good cricket game today.

I was thinking that Afghanistan will go above 300 runs and this will be a good target for England and little bit difficult to chase but Afghanistan made 284 runs. But they made this target difficult too. By their excellent bowling.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan bowled really well and got 3 3 wickets and Mujeeb Ur Rahman also the player of the match. He made 28 runs in batting too. Congratulations to Afghanistan.

[Sithara007]

I was thinking that Afghanistan will go above 300 runs and this will be a good target for England and little bit difficult to chase but Afghanistan made 284 runs. But they made this target difficult too. By their excellent bowling.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan bowled really well and got 3 3 wickets and Mujeeb Ur Rahman also the player of the match. He made 28 runs in batting too. Congratulations to Afghanistan.

At one point, it looked as if Afghanistan may make 300. But they lost some quick wickets and then ended up with a total of 284. All credit goes to Rahmanullah Gurbaz BTW. Without him, Afghanistan would have never made such a competitive total. He started by attacking Chris Woakes and Sam Curran. Both these bowlers ended up with economy rates of more than 10 runs per over. He deserved a century, but got run out as a result of a mistake from the Afghan captain, Hashmatullah Shahidi. Then it was the turn of Ikram Alikhil to get Afghanistan to a decent total.

[Fuso.hp]

I was thinking that Afghanistan will go above 300 runs and this will be a good target for England and little bit difficult to chase but Afghanistan made 284 runs. But they made this target difficult too. By their excellent bowling.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan bowled really well and got 3 3 wickets and Mujeeb Ur Rahman also the player of the match. He made 28 runs in batting too. Congratulations to Afghanistan.

At one point, it looked as if Afghanistan may make 300. But they lost some quick wickets and then ended up with a total of 284. All credit goes to Rahmanullah Gurbaz BTW. Without him, Afghanistan would have never made such a competitive total. He started by attacking Chris Woakes and Sam Curran. Both these bowlers ended up with economy rates of more than 10 runs per over. He deserved a century, but got run out as a result of a mistake from the Afghan captain, Hashmatullah Shahidi. Then it was the turn of Ikram Alikhil to get Afghanistan to a decent total.

The way Rahmanullah Gurbaz was connecting the ball with the bat would surely have got him a century in this match but unfortunately he was run out. Afghanistan might not have lost a wicket till 120 runs but then Afghanistan lost three crucial wickets in the gap of 5 to 6 runs where Afghanistan fell far behind. If the second wicket had fallen by a margin of 50 runs or 70 runs after the first wicket, Afghanistan's first innings total would have crossed 300 plus. 

Yesterday, Afghanistan proved that no team is a favorite on this stage of the World Cup, those who do well on the field will win the match.  We were already in favor of England and we were sure that England would beat Afghanistan by a big margin but something contrary to our expectations happened in the last match. I think maximum people like me lost money yesterday betting on England.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

I was thinking that Afghanistan will go above 300 runs and this will be a good target for England and little bit difficult to chase but Afghanistan made 284 runs. But they made this target difficult too. By their excellent bowling.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan bowled really well and got 3 3 wickets and Mujeeb Ur Rahman also the player of the match. He made 28 runs in batting too. Congratulations to Afghanistan.

The start of Afghanistan was very good. It seemed that Afghanistan can give a big target of 300 runs to England in this match. But at the crucial time of the match, Afghanistan's wickets fell quickly, so Afghanistan could not reach the target given to us. Afghanistan did well in the last few overs which allowed them to set England a target of 285 runs. I always predicted England to win this match but unfortunately they lost this match unimaginably to Afghanistan. The ground in this match was a fully spin assisted pitch due to which Afghanistan's spinner bowlers were able to pick up quick wickets. In this match I prepared bet slip for betting but not approved. My luck was very good due to which I saved my fund in this match. But most of the people lost their bets on this match.