Cricket World Cup, ENG vs AFG Highlights: Historic win for Afghanistan

ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, England vs Afghanistan Highlights: Three Afghan spinners- Rashid Khan, Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman and Mohammad Nabi shared eight wickets between them as they beat England by 69 runs

5:13 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE | Economical overs from England

 

English bowlers have done well in the last two overs and they have gone for only six runs and built pressure on Afghan batters. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 233/6 after 44 overs

 

5:03 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE | Ikram Ali Khil playing well

 

Ikram Ali Khil, after getting a four with a backfoot punch, tried thrice to get a single to third-man and thrice he failed, eventually getting one to short fine leg. But Khil has been good in this match as he bats on 42 off 49 balls. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 227/6 after 42 overs

 

4:55 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE | 40 overs done

 

So the first 40 overs have been done and dusted and Afghanistan still have four wickets in hand and Rashid Khan at the crease to try and take advantage of the death overs. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 216/6 after 40 overs

 

4:49 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE-Deadly bouncers from Wood

Wood bouncer has hit Khil on his shoulders and he asks for Physio to come on the ground. 

 

Another short ball and another single 

 

Afghanistan Score- 207/6 after 39 overs

 

4:45 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE- 200 up for Afghanistan

 

200 for Afghanistan in 37.4 overs, 160 minutes as Rashid hits Livinstoine for a four. But this has been a great spell from Livingstone who finishes with figures of 10 overs 1/33. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 204/6 after 38 overs

 

4:43 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE- Wood bouncer gets Nabi, Rashid in mood

 

Wicket!! Mark Wood has bounced Mohammad Nabi out here. It was a great bouncer and Nabi was left with no option but to play at it as a result the edge flew to the point where Root made no mistakes at all. 

 

Rashid comes and hits two fours to light up the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi which reverberates with the sounds of Rashid Rashid…

Afghanistan Score- 198/6 after 37 overs

4:39 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE-Missed stumping

Jos Buttler missed a stumping chance here. He was not able to gather the ball well and Livingstone remains without a wicket here. Ikram Ali Khil survives. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 190/5 after 36 overs

 

4:23 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE- Beautiful delivery from Root gets Shahidi

 

A beautiful ball from Root pitches on off stump and then turns just a little to beat Shahidi’s bat and that would be the fifth wicket down for the Afghanistan side. They are now struggling. 

 

Hashmat Shahidi scored 14 runs in 36 balls and spent 26 minutes in the middle. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 178/5 after 33 overs

 

4:16 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE- England three overs ahead of time

 

The part-time bowlers have done their trick as England are now three overs ahead of time with nearly one and a half hours remaining for them to bowl their remaining 18 overs. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 174/4 after 32 overs

 

4:08 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -England operating with part-timers

 

England are operating with part-time spinners Joe Root and Liam Livingstone as they have reduced the pressure on themselves and are looking to get some quick overs out and avoid the penalty for being behind the allotted time in terms of over rate. 

 

Six!! Short from Root and pulled over deep mid-wicket by Shahidi for a huge six

 

Afghanistan Score- 166/4 after 29 overs

 

4:00 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -Omarzai departs

 

Afghanistan have brought up their 150 in 25.2 overs and 116 minutes 

 

Omarzai’s attacking innings comes to an end as he tries to go down the ground against Livingstone but gets caught at long-off by Chris Woakes

 

Azmat Omrazai scored 19 runs in 24 balls as he batted for 25 minutes

 

Afghanistan Score- 152/4 after 26 overs

 

3:55 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -Omarzai attacks

 

Fuller length and Omarzai goes down the ground to get a si first ball against Waokes who has come into the attack. 

 

A little bit short to compromise on the full ball and Omarzai cut him for a four past point 

 

Woakes ends the over with a great ball

 

Afghanistan Score- 149/3 after 25 overs

 

3:53 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -Afghan scoring rate goes down

 

Since the fall of Gurbaz’s wicket, the Afghan scoring rate has gone down drastically. After being 114/0 in 16.1 overs, they are now 139/4 after 24 overs. That is only 25 runs in 8 overs. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 139/3 after 24 overs

 

3:43 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -Gurbaz run out

 

Liam Livingstone is bowling a leg break to right-hander Rahmat Shaha and an off break to Left-hander Hahsmatullah Shahidi. He is not ambidextrous, but this is one hell of a skill to possess. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 129/3 after 22 overs

 

3:35 PM

Cricket World Cup 2023 | England vs Afghanistan LIVE SCORE -Gurbaz run out

 

Rahmat is out for 3 runs 8 balls and 10 minutes

 

The new batter is Afghan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi 

 

This is pure Harakiri from Afghanistan and Rahmanullah Gurbaz. The call from the captain was obviously a bad one and it is Gurbaz who should not have said no. 

 

He is out for 80 runs, off 57 balls after spending 92 minutes on the ground and hitting 8 fours and four sixes. 

 

Afghanistan Score- 123/3 after 19 overs