ODI World Cup digest: Mitchell Marsh goes large and New Zealand locked into semis

The Males’s 2023 ODI World Cup is constructing in direction of the ultimate on November 19 with the semi-finalists now locked in. 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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High Story: Marsh’s 177* powers Australia to seventh straight win

Australia 307 for two (Marsh 177*, Smith 63*, Warner 51) beat Bangladesh 306 for 8 (Hridoy 74, Shanto 45) by eight wickets

Australia’s aversion to chasing has disappeared forward of a semi-final with outdated foes South Africa after an announcement innings of 177 not out from Mitchell Marsh at No.3 helped his facet cruise to their second-successive file World Cup chase towards Bangladesh in Pune, working down 307 with eight wickets and 32 balls to spare.

Marsh made his highest ODI rating and his first century at first drop, thumping 177 off 132 balls with 17 fours and 9 sixes in brutal trend.

Australia had solely chased greater than 300 as soon as within the final 4 years, however the rejigged batting line-up lastly clicked with Steven Smith making an untroubled, unbeaten 63 at No.4 and sharing in a 175-run stand to information Australia to their seventh straight win of the match.

Match evaluation: Marsh owns the No. 3 spot with monstrous hitting

Australia head into the semi-finals excessive on confidence•Getty Photographs

Australia’s World Cup marketing campaign has resembled a balls-in-a-maze puzzle. From catches taking place within the first two matches, to Steven Smith having to regulate to a brand new position, to his vertigo, to Glenn Maxwell’s concussion on a golf course, Australia simply have not been in a position to get all of the balls within the innermost circle.

One concern should have been how Mitchell Marsh, an enormous a part of their plan to frontload their batting, did not fairly reply instantly to shifting all the way down to No. 3 halfway within the match. Towards Bangladesh, within the last league match of the match, Marsh ticked that field with an innings stuffed with energy and intent that should sound a warning bugle for his or her opponents within the coming week.

Match report: Stokes and Willey trend a final hurrah for England

England 337 for 9 (Stokes 84, Root 60, Bairstow 59, Rauf 3-64) beat Pakistan 244 (Salman 51, Willey 3-56) by 93 runs

Fifty six of Ben Stokes’ 84 runs got here in boundaries•ICC/Getty Photographs

England’s soon-to-be-deposed world champions bade farewell to the 2023 World Cup with a glimpse of their former domineering selves, as they marched to an emphatic 93-run win over Pakistan at Eden Gardens. The consequence signifies that Babar Azam’s males are formally out of semi-final rivalry.

David Willey marked the ultimate look of his worldwide profession with a sparky all-round show that included his one centesimal and last ODI wicket, and after Ben Stokes had underpinned an imposing complete of 337 for 9 along with his second forceful outing in fast succession, Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid turned the screw on a spin-friendly floor to snuff out any pretence of a contest with 4 wickets between them.

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Information headlines

Match preview

India vs Netherlands, Bengaluru (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEDT)

They have been often examined, however in any other case, India’s World Cup run has been nothing in need of magical. Now on the day of the auspicious Indian pageant of Diwali, they’ve an opportunity to present their followers one other dose of leisure, and regardless that we all know that something can occur in sport, a defeat for the hosts is extraordinarily unlikely.

That is as a result of India have been completely dominant throughout their 8-0 run at this World Cup. Coming into their last league sport, they face the least-fancied group of the match, Netherlands, even when they’ve carried out higher than anticipated. With a semi-final towards New Zealand on Wednesday their subsequent large sport, Sunday additionally gives India an opportunity to relaxation key personnel ought to there be a necessity for it.

Group information

India (possible) 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul, 6 Suryakumar Yadav, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Kuldeep Yadav / R Ashwin, 9 Jasprit Bumrah / Prasidh Krishna, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Mohammed Siraj

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