The Males’s 2023 ODI World Cup is now constructing in the direction of the ultimate on November 19. Every morning we’ll spherical up the newest motion and information from the occasion and produce you the insights from our reporters on the bottom.
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Prime Story: Fabulous Fakhar pulls off beautiful chase to maintain Pakistan alive
Pakistan 200 for 1 (Zaman 126*, Babar 66*, Southee 1-27) beat New Zealand 401 for six Ravindra 105, Williamson 95, Wasim 3-60) by 21 runs on DLS
Match evaluation: The candy sound of Fakhar’s sixes makes unreal actual
End up the clip first. Then shut your eyes and pay attention for the sound. It comes simply after Waqar Younis is finishing some level in regards to the batting being very, very exhausting within the second half and simply earlier than Shane Watson, not on air however within the commentary field, can not help however gasp “Woaaah!” And earlier than Ravi Shastri instructions the scene, like Tony Greig as soon as used to, voice rising with the arc of the shot: “Oh he is climbed into it, WHAT A SOUND!”
Hearken to that sound, a tock, unthreatening and benign as sounds go, like a desk tennis pong. Besides amplified. As candy and pure and clear now, by means of the TV, in your cellphone, laptop computer or no matter gadget, because it was heard that day at Eden Gardens stay.
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Match Report: Defending champions England knocked out as Australia march in the direction of semi-finals
Australia 286 (Labuschagne 71, Inexperienced 47, Woakes 4-54) beat England 253 (Stokes 64, Malan 50, Zampa 3-21) by 33 runs
It is over. And that is not merely the worst World Cup defence within the historical past of worldwide sport.
All the things that, for eight heady years, had been taken as a right about England’s white-ball batting has vanished with out hint, as if some Hollywood baddy had pinched a sports activities almanac(okay) from the long run and set the dials on the crew’s Delorean for the 2015 World Cup. We have re-entered an epoch of limitless, determined failure – the miracle of 2019 misplaced perpetually to some branch-line of the space-time continuum.
England’s sixth defeat – by 33 runs in Ahmedabad – in seven video games was in flip Australia’s fifth win in 5, with which they’ve marched away from a hard-chasing pack to tighten their grip on a semi-final berth. It was marginally much less supine than a few of England’s losses – thanks to a different spirited bowling show led by Adil Rashid and Chris Woakes, who additionally rallied gamely on the loss of life with the bat, and one other compelling however all-too-brief sighting of Ben Stokes in #HeroMode.
Match evaluation: Straighter, sooner, flatter, Zampa
He was so constant together with his inventory ball that any deviation from it appeared to convey a wicket. The ball that acquired Ben Stokes may need been his worst of the night time, sliding down the leg facet and swept tamely to brief tremendous leg; he tossed one up full to Moeen Ali, who slog-swept him out to deep midwicket.
He completed with extraordinary figures of three for 21, the most cost effective spell of his ODI profession by a distance. Australia’s resolution to select a solitary frontline spinner of their World Cup squad was a calculated gamble: with 19 wickets throughout seven matches, the selectors are quids in.
Information headlines
Match preview
India vs South Africa, Kolkata (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEDT)
Do you again your energy, or look to use your opponent’s weak point? Rohit Sharma and Temba Bavuma can have that query of their minds as India tackle South Africa in a top-of-the-table conflict at Eden Gardens on Sunday.
South Africa like to bat first. Their high order invariably units the platform for the center to go massive. Batting first on this World Cup, their totals have been 428, 311, 399, 382 and 357. On every event, they received by greater than 100 runs. Whereas chasing, although, they misplaced to Netherlands and narrowly escaped, with a one-wicket win, towards Pakistan.
For India, it is the alternative. They like having a goal in entrance of them in order that they will tempo their innings accordingly. Batting first, they will seem not sure about how exhausting to go. So whoever wins the toss on Sunday must make the difficult name.
Crew information
India (possible): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul (wk), 6 Suryakumar Yadav, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
South Africa (possible): 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Temba Bavuma (capt), 3 Rassie van der Dussen, 4 Aiden Markram, 5 David Miller, 6 Heinrich Klaasen, 7 Marco Jansen, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Keshav Maharaj, 10 Lungi Ngidi, 11 Tabraiz Shamsi/Gerald Coetzee
Situations: What do New Zealand and Pakistan have to do to qualify for the semi-finals?
England have been eradicated, South Africa have certified for the semi-finals, whereas the struggle for the final two semi-finals slots is essentially between Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Right here is how the {qualifications} situations search for these groups.
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