2023 ODI World Cup digest – Fakhar fury retains Pakistan alive Australia knock out England

The Males’s 2023 ODI World Cup is now constructing in direction of the ultimate on November 19. Every morning we’ll spherical up the newest motion and information from the occasion and convey you the insights from our reporters on the bottom.

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Prime Story: Fabulous Fakhar pulls off gorgeous 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

Towards all odds, Pakistan by some means stay alive on this World Cup. In a sport the place they turned in one in all their most extraordinary bowling shows in World Cup historical past, a century from Rachin Ravindra and 95 from the returning Kane Williamson noticed New Zealand amass 401 – their highest World Cup whole – to go away Pakistan on the ropes. However an astonishing counterattack from Fakhar Zaman noticed him smash an unbeaten 126 in 81 balls to maintain Pakistan up with the DLS asking fee with the specter of rain looming for a lot of the second innings. And when the rain did arrive, Pakistan have been comfortably forward of the speed they wanted to be, pulling off a win that ranges them on factors with New Zealand and places a semi-final berth inside reasonable grasp.

Match evaluation: The candy sound of Fakhar’s sixes makes unreal actual

Fakhar Zaman tonned up within the twentieth over•ICC/Getty Pictures

End up the clip first. Then shut your eyes and hear for the sound. It comes simply after Waqar Younis is finishing some level concerning the batting being very, very arduous 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!”

Take heed 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, via the TV, in your cellphone, laptop computer or no matter gadget, because it was heard that day at Eden Gardens dwell.

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Match Report: Defending champions England knocked out as Australia march in 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 with no consideration 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 longer term and set the dials on the staff’s Delorean for the 2015 World Cup. We have re-entered an epoch of limitless, determined failure – the miracle of 2019 misplaced eternally 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 dying with the bat, and one other compelling however all-too-brief sighting of Ben Stokes in #HeroMode.

Match evaluation: Straighter, sooner, flatter, Zampa

It was Jos Buttler who lastly tried to hit him off his size, skipping down and trying to launch him over long-off, as if attempting to rekindle the spirit of that heady evening in Dubai. As a substitute, it was Adam Zampa who got here out on prime, roaring as loud as he may in celebration as Cameron Inexperienced took a easy catch.

He was so constant along with his inventory ball that any deviation from it appeared to deliver a wicket. The ball that received Ben Stokes might need been his worst of the evening, sliding down the leg aspect and swept tamely to quick high quality 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 choice 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.

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Match preview

India vs South Africa, Kolkata (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEDT)

Do you again your power, or look to use your opponent’s weak spot? Rohit Sharma and Temba Bavuma may 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 prime 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 gained 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 other. They like having a goal in entrance of them in order that they’ll tempo their innings accordingly. Batting first, they’ll seem uncertain about how arduous to go. So whoever wins the toss on Sunday should make the difficult name.

Staff 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

Eventualities: What do New Zealand and Pakistan must do to qualify for the semi-finals?

Daryl Mitchell, Kane Williamson, and Tim Southee discuss to an official on the second rain break•ICC/Getty Pictures

England have been eradicated, South Africa have certified for the semi-finals, whereas the battle for the final two semi-finals slots is basically between Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Right here is how the {qualifications} situations search for these groups.