ODI World Cup 2023: Afghanistan vs England Match Preview, ODI World Cup 2023

13th ODI • Arun Jaitley Stadium • Delhi

Afghanistan

284/10 (49.5)

England

215/10 (40.3)

AFG won by 69 runs

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Table

Date & Time

15 Oct, 02:00 PM IST

Venue

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Match

13th ODI,

ICC ODI World Cup 2023

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Rod Tucker(Australia), Sharfuddoula(Bangladesh), Paul Reiffel(Australia, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe(New Zealand)

Toss

England elected to bowl

Pitch Report

PitchFast & Bounce

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingSlow Spin

1st Innings

247Avg Runs

8Avg Wkts

2nd Innings

209Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

ENG

1- 0

AFG

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

England

Afghanistan

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Joe Root

ENG . BAT

159 Runs

2 Matches

Dawid Malan

ENG . BAT

154 Runs

2 Matches

Jonny Bairstow

ENG . WK

85 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Reece Topley

ENG . BOWL

4 Wkts

1 Match

Chris Woakes

ENG . BOWL

2 Wkts

2 Matches

Sam Curran

ENG . ALL

2 Wkts

2 Matches

Player of the Match Mujeeb Ur Rahman

3/51

AFG

ENG

Info

Afghanistan

284/10 (49.5)

Batters

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

140.35

runout (J Buttler / (sub D Willey ))

Ibrahim Zadran

58.33

c J Root b A Rashid

Rahmat Shah

37.50

st J Buttler b A Rashid

Hashmatullah Shahidi

(C)

38.89

b J Root

Azmatullah Omarzai

79.17

c C Woakes b L Livingstone

Ikram Alikhil

87.88

c S Curran b R Topley

Mohammad Nabi

60.00

c J Root b M Wood

Rashid Khan

104.55

c J Root b A Rashid

Mujeeb Ur Rahman

175.00

c J Root b M Wood

Naveen ul Haq

83.33

runout (J Buttler)

Fazalhaq Farooqi

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 3, W: 11)

TOTAL

(49.5 Ov, RR: 5.7)

284/10

Bowlers

EXT

Chris Woakes

10.25

Reece Topley

8.5

5.89

11.50

4.20

5.56

3.30

4.75

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Ibrahim Zadran

c J Root b A Rashid

1-114

16.4

Rahmat Shah

st J Buttler b A Rashid

2-122

18.4

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

runout (J Buttler / (sub D Willey ))

3-122

18.5

Azmatullah Omarzai

c C Woakes b L Livingstone

4-152

25.6

Hashmatullah Shahidi

b J Root

5-174

32.1

Mohammad Nabi

c J Root b M Wood

6-190

36.1

Rashid Khan

c J Root b A Rashid

7-233

44.1

Ikram Alikhil

c S Curran b R Topley

8-277

47.6

Mujeeb Ur Rahman

c J Root b M Wood

9-277

48.1

Naveen ul Haq

runout (J Buttler)

10-284

49.5

England

215/10 (40.3)

Batters

Jonny Bairstow

50.00

lbw b F Farooqi

Dawid Malan

82.05

c I Zadran b M Nabi

Joe Root

64.71

b MU Rahman

Harry Brook

108.20

c I Alikhil b MU Rahman

Jos Buttler

(C)

50.00

b N Haq

Liam Livingstone

71.43

lbw b R Khan

Sam Curran

43.48

c R Shah b M Nabi

Chris Woakes

34.62

b MU Rahman

Adil Rashid

153.85

c M Nabi b R Khan

Mark Wood *

81.82

b R Khan

Reece Topley

214.29

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 1, W: 8)

TOTAL

(40.3 Ov, RR: 5.31)

215/10

Bowlers

EXT

5.10

7.14

7.33

2.67

9.3

3.89

Azmatullah Omarzai

6.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Jonny Bairstow

lbw b F Farooqi

1-3

1.1

Joe Root

b MU Rahman

2-33

6.5

Dawid Malan

c I Zadran b M Nabi

3-68

12.4

Jos Buttler

b N Haq

4-91

17.2

Liam Livingstone

lbw b R Khan

5-117

20.4

Sam Curran

c R Shah b M Nabi

6-138

27.1

Chris Woakes

b MU Rahman

7-160

32.6

Harry Brook

c I Alikhil b MU Rahman

8-169

34.2

Adil Rashid

c M Nabi b R Khan

9-198

38.4

Mark Wood

b R Khan

10-215

40.3

Match Info

Date & Time

15 Oct, 02:00 PM IST

Venue

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Match

13th ODI,

ICC ODI World Cup 2023

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Rod Tucker(Australia), Sharfuddoula(Bangladesh), Paul Reiffel(Australia, TV)

Referee

Jeff Crowe(New Zealand)

Toss

England elected to bowl

Player of the Match Mujeeb Ur Rahman

3/51

Commentary

The first upset of this World Cup. What a massive victory for Afghanistan as they literally blew away England on a surface that produced high scoring matches in both the previous matches. A historic day for Afghanistan cricket and this will surely be etched in the memory of every Afghan fans. That also brings us to the end of our coverage for this encounter. Join us tomorrow again for the clash between Sri Lanka and Australia. Both teams are searching for their first win. On that note, it's time for us to bid a goodbye. This is me (Arya Sekhar Chakraborty) signing off also on behalf of my fellow commentator and good mate Pradeep.

Hashmatullah Shahidi (Afghanistan captain): I am quite happy and all team is happy. This is our best win and the confidence will be their for the next games. The whole country will be proud. Lot of credit to the openers for getting us to the start. Again today we faltered in the middle overs. We started brilliantly and the credit for that goes to Gurbaz. Ikram was there with us for the last two years but didn't get enough opportunities. We appreciate his efforts. Again Mujeeb showed how well he batted. In Pakistan he has shown how good he can be and even today when our team needed some crucial runs, he delivered. Our batting line up should have more runs on the board and give something to the spinners. Everyone knows how good the spinners are. Yeah I think Fazal started very well and Mujeeb also bowled well for the first 10 overs. The wicket gave us momentum. When I was batting, I realised it wasn't easy to tackle the spinners. I told the boys that 280-290 could be enough as the pitch would assist the spinners. We had the belief in the team. This is not the first and only win we are looking for. This was our first win but surely not the last one.

Jos Buttler (England captain): Disappointing, having won the toss and electing to field and me missing the ball down the leg-side early on, tough loss to take and obviously couldn't set the tone but congratulations to Afghanistan on the win, they outplayed us today. I think, you always think about execution both with the bat and ball, not at the level we wanted to be, consistently enough, that's the areas we lost the game. You got to find ways and execute your skills. Really skillful attack, fantastic spinners and may be the dew didn't come in as expected and held on the surface with uneven bounce, they put us under lots of pressure and kept always stumps in play and we weren't quite good enough in the day. As a whole we were not at the level we like to be, in World Cups and against good opposition, guys putting under pressure and that's where we need to be. Everyone on the field and we will working on put that right.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: Thanks to the almighty. Very proud moment here in the World Cup and beating the defending champions, great acheievemnt for the whold nation and whole team, hard fought win. As a spinner it's hard to bowl in the powerplay, only two fielders outside, that's something I've been working on and I want to be consistent and powerplay you don't have much options, so I keep it stump to stumps and the same mentality while bowling in the nets too. We knew the dew would play the part, that's why I told the captain that I'll bowl in the powerplay and the wicket was good, little bit of hold for me and the mindset was there, didn't wanted to give much room and keep it wicket to wicket. It's all about the management, they give the confidence and I always prepare in the nets and that's the area I want to contribute as well, 20-25 runs lower down the order always makes the difference. This trophy is the people back home who were affected by the Earthquakes and it's dedicated to them.

Afghanistan won by 69 runs

Rahmanullah Gurbaz 80(57) | Rashid Khan 3/37(9.3)
Harry Brook 66(61) | Adil Rashid 3/42(10)

It turned out to be a historic day for Afghanistan as they steamrolled heavyweights England by 69 runs to win their first match of the World Cup 2023 campaign. This is also their 2nd ever win in a 50-over World Cup. England were pushed on the backfoot right from the outset with Fazalhaq Farooqi bowling brilliantly with the new ball. He trapped Jonny Bairstow in his very first over and that put the brakes on the English top order. Joe Root and Dawid Malan started building a partnership and that is when Mujeeb Ur Rahman broke through.

He rattled the stumps of Root with a delivery that kept a tad low. Malan looked unfazed and played some delightful shots until the introduction of Mohammad Nabi again turned the game in favor of Afghanistan. He deceived Malan with his guile as he chipped one straight to the cover fielder. It was Harry Brook who put some pressure back into the Afghan camp with some powerful strokes. Jos Buttler couldn't get going and was castled by a pearler from Naveen Ul Haq which tailed sharply and breached Buttler's defence to rattle the stumps.

The only bright spot for England was Harry Brook as wickets kept tumbling around him. Liam Livingstone played all over a Rashid Khan leg break and was adjudged LBW. Sam Curran tried to build a partnership and that is when Hashmatullah Shahidi brought back his match-up Mohammad Nabi against Curran. It paid rich dividends as Curran nicked a tossed-up delivery outside off straight to the slip fielder. Chris Woakes also got off to a decent start but kept searching for Mujeeb's wrong un which sneaked through Woakes' defence and clattered the stumps.

Harry Brook's wicket was the final nail in the coffin for England as Mujeeb bagged his 3rd. A good partnership was building between Mark Wood and Adil Rashid but it was again the quality of Rashid Khan which brought about the former's downfall. Reece Topley smeared around for a bit and smashed three consecutive boundaries before Rashid Khan castled Mark Wood with a wrong un to seal the deal for Afghanistan. This will definitely rank as one of the biggest World Cup upsets.

40.3 Rashid Khan to Mark Wood, OUT! ALL OVER! AFGHANISTAN TRUMP ENGLAND IN THE WORLD CUP! We have our first upset of this World Cup, what a moment to cherish for Afghan fans after suffering a few defeats to start off their campaign. Defending champions have plenty to ponder as their qualification is hanging by a thread now. Googly, stump to stump and Wood plays all over as he looks to sweep across the line and misses, through to make the mess of the stumps.

Mark Wood b Rashid Khan 18 (22b, 3x4, 0x6)

40.2 Rashid Khan to Reece Topley, short into the batter again, Topley went back and heaves it to wide long-on for another single.

40.1 Rashid Khan to Mark Wood, OH! Drops it short, googly turning into the batter on the stumps. Wood made room and cuts it to deep covers for one.

Three cracking shots from Reece Topley to end the over. An inside edge which ran away down the fine leg region before a flat batted slap and a beautiful unconventional cover drive. 72 more runs needed off 10 overs.

overs

213 /9 score

runs

Reece Topley *

14 (6)

Mark Wood

17 (20)

Fazalhaq Farooqi

1 /50

39.6 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Reece Topley, FOUR! Make that three in a row. Full and outside the off-stump, Topley makes room and laces it through extra-cover and that runs away too for another boundary.

A couple of boundaries for Reece Topley. A quality flat batted shot before playing a French cut which fetched him a boundary towards the fine leg region.

39.5 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Reece Topley, FOUR MORE! Once again backed away, was short and Topley smeared it down the ground, races away to find the ropes.

39.4 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Reece Topley, EDGED AND FOUR! Length delivery, Topley gets followed as he backed away to heave, takes the inside edge and beats the keeper as well, races to fine-leg ropes.

39.3 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Mark Wood, OH DEAR! Change of pace, back of a length into the batter. Wood looking to clip it into the on-side, but the inside edge off the pad lobs up in the air, falls safely on the on-side.

39.2 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Reece Topley, OH! Searing yorker, tailed in on the off-stump. Topley did well to jams his bat to it and squeezes it to deep covers for one.

39.1 Fazalhaq Farooqi to Reece Topley, OH! Length delivery in the channel, tailed back in. Topley puts his hands out and misses, wasn't too far away from the off-stump.

That was put down by Fazalhaq Farooqi at cover-point. Could have been the end of the match there. Another successful over from Rashid Khan as Afghanistan just one wicket away from a famous victory. This will be a win of epic proportions.

overs

199 /9 score

runs

Mark Wood *

16 (19)

Reece Topley

1 (1)

Rashid Khan

2 /35

38.6 Rashid Khan to Mark Wood, DROPPED! Would've been all over, Farooqi can't cling on at covers. Short outside the off-stump, Wood cuts it hard and went straight to Farooqi as it was dying into the fielder, Farooqi didn't judge that one and waited for it to come to him and it just falls short in fact.