2023 ODI World Cup digest: Australia into high 4; England and South Africa should rebound from shocks

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 most recent motion and information from the occasion and produce you the insights from our reporters on the bottom.

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High Story: Warner, Marsh a whole lot arrange very important win over Pakistan

Australia 367 for 9 (Warner 163, Marsh 121, Afridi 5-51, Rauf 3-83) beat Pakistan 305 (Imam 70, Shafique 64, Zampa 4-53) by 62 runs

Australia could have drawn stage with Pakistan at the moment, however actually, they had been one step forward all night. A sport that briefly threatened to interrupt right into a thriller finally had Australia clinching a routine win, the havoc unleashed by centuries from David Warner and Mitchell Marsh an excessive amount of for Pakistan to beat in the long run. Pakistan fought again to comprise – to the extent that phrase can be utilized for a staff that posts 367 – Pat Cummins’ facet, and gave the chase an excellent go.However regardless of a 134-run opening stand between Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique, Australia started to chip away with common wickets, with Adam Zampa taking 4 for the second consecutive sport. Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Rizwan regarded to take the sport deep, however finally Pakistan would lose six wickets for 36 runs as Australia received by 62.

Match evaluation: Warner nonetheless the GOAT-to possibility for Australia at World Cups

David Warner leaps after his fourth successive ODI ton in opposition to Pakistan•Getty Pictures

Final 12 months, Virat Kohli hit a six off Haris Rauf that everybody raves about on a regular basis. On Friday afternoon on the Chinnaswamy Stadium, David Warner hit Rauf for a six that was simply as astonishing. Take away the context of Kohli’s six, and possibly, simply possibly…

However why evaluate in any respect?

This is how the Warner six unfolded – and that phrase is chosen with some deliberation, as a result of the shot was a miracle of folding and unfolding. Rauf, angling the ball in from around the wicket, went full and on the stumps at 146.1kph. It was the type of ball that is troublesome to get beneath and hit within the air in any course. Warner did not simply hit it within the air, however made it clang into the roof of the stand at backward sq. leg.

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Match previews

Netherlands vs Sri Lanka, Lucknow (10.30am IST; 5.00am GMT; 4.00pm AEST)

Can Netherlands take one other well-known scalp?•ICC/Getty Pictures

When these two sides met just a little over three months in the past, the image couldn’t have been extra dissimilar. Sri Lanka had simply racked up a clear sweep of the World Cup Qualifier and dispatched the Dutch twice over the course of the event. Whereas the primary was an edgy affair, the second – a last, although with nothing actually using on it – was as one-sided as most Sri Lanka-Netherlands video games have tended to be.

In all, these sides have squared off 5 instances in ODIs with Sri Lanka successful all these encounters, together with one the place the Lankans racked up the then-highest ever ODI complete of 443. However regardless of this lopsided historical past, it is the Dutch that come into this sport with all of the momentum.

Staff information

Netherlands (possible) 1 Vikramjit Singh, 2 Max O’Dowd, 3 Colin Ackermann, 4 Bas de Leede, 5 Teja Nidamanuru, 6 Scott Edwards (capt & wk), 7 Sybrand Engelbrecht, 8 Roelof van der Merwe, 9 Logan van Beek, 10 Aryan Dutt, 11 Paul van Meekeren

Sri Lanka (possible) 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Kusal Perera/Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kusal Mendis (capt & wk), 4 Sadeera Samarawickrama, 5 Charith Asalanka, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva, 7 Dunith Wellalage, 8 Chamika Karunaratne, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Lahiru Kumara, 11 Dilshan Madushanka

England vs South Africa, Mumbai (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEST)

Will or not it’s England, the reigning world champions throughout 50- and 20-overs, whose quest for a 3rd world title in 4 years is at risk of dissolving in a bisque of self-doubt? As a substitute of cementing a legacy to rival the good Australian staff of the flip of the millennium, their humiliating losses to New Zealand and Afghanistan are threatening to forged England’s narrative again into their World Cup darkish ages of the Nineties and 2000s, to make that 2015-19 resurgence appear extra like a mirage than a miracle.

Or will or not it’s South Africa… the calmest, most serene drive within the competitors for 2 heady performances, as a staff seemingly with out baggage cruised previous Australia and Sri Lanka with scarcely a backwards look, to offer the impression that this… lastly… may very well be their 12 months. After which, out of a transparent Himalayan sky, got here that defeat in Dharamsala, and all bets had been off

Staff information

England 1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Dawid Malan, 3 Joe Root, 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Jos Buttler (capt/wk), 6 Harry Brook, 7 Chris Woakes/Gus Atkinson, 8 David Willey, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Mark Wooden, 11 Reece Topley

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

Function: South Africa unites for double World Cup conflict with England

There are Tremendous Saturdays after which there are Tremendous Saffadays and this is without doubt one of the latter.

South Africa and England (therefore Saffa: the informal expression for somebody from South Africa – which can be the place a number of English skilled sportspeople come from) have solely performed one another in worldwide cricket and rugby as soon as earlier than on the identical day and that was 25 years in the past. In 1998, South Africa and England had been tussling on day three of the Manchester Take a look at, which was finally drawn, and the Springboks beat England 18-0 in Cape City. This time, they’re each on impartial floor taking part in at World Cups, an unprecedented event, which implies there’s not less than 10 hours of leisure and rivalry assured.