World Cup 2019: 3 reasons why Afghanistan have failed to register a single win 

The World Cup 2019 is underway in England and Wales with the tournament heading to the business stages as teams gear up for the heated race to the knockout stages.

However, one team that has failed to register a single point despite putting up a solid brand of cricket is Afghanistan. Having failed to win a single game in this competition, they find themselves at the bottom of the table with just two more matches to go.

What is interesting here is that Afghanistan won against West Indies to win the World Cup qualifiers, and they defeated Pakistan in the warm-up game just before this tournament and will be facing off against these two teams in their final league stage games.

Yet, they have not been able to stitch together individual performances that has come back to hurt them all throughout. As Afghanistan look to sort out their issues, here are three reasons why Afghanistan do not have a single win from the competition thus far.

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#3 Lack of quality pace bowlers

Afghanistan's best pacer Hamid Hassan has been warming the benches for the past few matches

The pace attack of the Afghanistan team has not come anywhere close to the other teams. The major reason behind this has been that they have not been playing with more than two pacers in the main eleven, depending completely on the spinners.

In a tournament where the pacers have enjoyed top purchase from the surfaces, Afghanistan have constantly fielded 3 spinners and while their spinners have proved to be their biggest weapon in the past, the trio have not enjoyed great success from the World Cup.

Afghanistan have nothing to lose now, having been knocked out of the competition. Hence, one could probably hope that Afghanistan get their team combination right and play a bowling attack that suits the pitches.

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#2 Very mediocre fielding

The fielding has added runs to the opposition's total in almost every match

Inexperience is to be blamed here as well. The fiedling along the boundary lines has specifically been an area of concern for the Asian team. They have been bad at judging the trajectory of the ball and have ended up dropping quite a few catches in the outfield.

These lapses in the field have leaked runs and let down the bowlers. Fitness levels play a big part in the fielding and that has also been a let-down for Afghanistan. Some of the biggest names in the Afghanistan team have not been able to put up a decent show of fielding that has let down the team as a whole.

One more issue with the Afghanistan team is that age has caught up to them which has reflected on the field with big stars such as Asgar Afghan, Mohammad Nabi and Noor Ali Zadran a part of a number of fielding lapses.

#1 Inability to pace the innings

Afghanistan has been taking a one-way approach in every game in the tournament.

Afghanistan were seen to be lacking match experience as in most games, especially in the chases against India and Bangladesh, the batsmen took a considerable amount of time to settle that only saw the required run-rate steep up at a meteoric rate.

While the batsmen did go on to make solid starts that kept Afghanistan in the chase at the beginning, the fact that they played out too many dot balls came back to add more pressure on the middle order.

They have gone pretty slow right until the 35th over at times, with wickets in hand. With pressure playing a major factor, the batsmen have felt an evident panic creeping up to the batsmen and they have ended up throwing wickets in bunches. They will have to learn from their mistakes and come back stronger.