2023 ODI World Cup digest: ODI World Cup digest: Dutch delight; Pakistan group hit by virus

The Males’s 2023 ODI World Cup is underway in India and runs from October 5 till 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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High Story: Edwards, van der Merwe assist Netherlands script well-known win in opposition to South Africa

Netherlands 245 for 8 (Edwards 78*, van der Merwe 29, Jansen 2-27) beat South Africa 207 (Miller 43, van Beek 3-60, van der Merwe 2-34, de Leede 2-36, van Meekeren 2-40) by 38 runs 43 overs a aspect

Scott Edwards‘ rousing unbeaten half-century gave his bowlers perception they usually shot for the celebs, demolishing South Africa’s storied batting line-up handy Netherlands a historic World Cup victory.

South Africa, having gained each their video games on the event previous to this by greater than 100 runs, after posting totals of 428 and 311, had insisted within the lead-up that that they had moved on from a group-stage defeat to Netherlands which ended their T20 World Cup marketing campaign final yr. Netherlands, in the meantime, had proven fleeting glances of what they is likely to be able to right here with heavy but spirited defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand. This match adopted the script, till Edwards and Roelof van der Merwe – who shone with bat and ball – ripped it as much as safe a 38-run win, Netherlands’ first in opposition to South Africa in ODIs.

Match evaluation: Edwards leads from entrance as Netherlands nail their massive second

It was Scott Edwards who took them to “believing” and facilitated “figuring out” from a hopeless place. South Africa gained the toss, opted to bowl first, and have been coasting to victory as early because the twenty first over when Netherlands’ captain arrived on the crease with the scoreboard studying 82 for five. He completed unbeaten on 78, lifting his costs to a rating of 245 for 8 with very important help from Roelof van der Merwe and Aryan Dutt. He then nailed each tactical name behind the stumps to cap off a exceptional evening in Dharamsala.

Edwards’ team-mates will let you know he leads from the entrance. “A type of guys you simply wish to comply with,” is how van Beek put it earlier this month. Possibly it shouldn’t be a shock somebody who flirted with {an electrical} apprenticeship is a useful conductor.

Should Watch: How do South Africa transfer on from this loss?

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The Pakistan cricket group has been struck by a viral infection of their World Cup camp in India, with a number of gamers affected by flu and excessive fever. Most are understood to be on the mend, however a number of didn’t attend Tuesday’s non-obligatory coaching session. Abdullah Shafique is at the moment in quarantine in his room with flu and fever, whereas Shaheen Shah Afridi, Saud Shakeel and Zaman Khan have additionally been affected.

Match preview

Afghanistan vs New Zealand, Chennai (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEST)

The 2019 World Cup champions have been taken down. Time for the runners-up subsequent?

Afghanistan gamers have again and again known as India their second dwelling. At varied factors, they’ve had their base arrange at Indian venues like Dehradun, Lucknow and Larger Noida, the place they performed their “dwelling video games”. IPL regulars Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi have at all times been a crowd favorite, whereas Naveen-ul-Haq retains the thrill going.

Which is why there was real pleasure among the many Delhi crowd when Afghanistan served defending champions England a 69-run thrashing on Sunday. It was solely Afghanistan’s second-ever win in an ODI World Cup recreation in 18 makes an attempt and their first since 2015.

Staff information

Afghanistan (possible): 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), 5 Azmatullah Omarzai, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Ikram Alikhil (wk), 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi

New Zealand (possible): 1 Devon Conway, 2 Will Younger, 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Tom Latham (capt, wk), 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Mark Chapman, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Mark Henry, 10 Lockie Ferguson, 11 Trent Boult

Evaluation: Rohit Sharma’s daring new batting template has modified his ODI recreation – and India’s

No one mourns the discount within the quantity of ODI cricket between the final World Cup and this one. You’ll be able to’t blame them. Nonetheless, it’s a disgrace that as a result of so little 50-over cricket is performed, and even much less by the most effective gamers, we’d generally fail to see transformative items of labor. Rohit Sharma‘s transformation since he grew to become the full-time India ODI captain would possibly simply be a kind of.

In a World Cup, although, everybody notices. After the duck within the first match in tough situations in opposition to Australia, Rohit has virtually ended two matches inside the primary powerplay. He scored 76 off 43 within the first ten overs in opposition to Afghanistan, and 45 off 30 in opposition to Pakistan. As with every thing he does, this was not random. Not a case of feeling good about it on the day and swinging for the hills.