The 13th match of the World Cup campaign will be played with defending champions England and Afghanistan. This match is to be played on Sunday, 15th October. Both the teams will play each other at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi at 2 pm Indian time. England will try to improve the ‘net run rate’ by registering a big win over Afghanistan in this match. England did not have a good start in the World Cup. The first match of the World Cup was played between England and New Zealand on 5 October at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. New Zealand had defeated England by nine wickets. The Jos Buttler-led team made a good comeback by defeating Bangladesh by 137 runs in Dharamshala on Tuesday. On Sunday, England would like to return to the points table by defeating Afghanistan. Talking about Afghanistan, after losing two consecutive matches, the morale of their players seems to be low. In the first match, Afghanistan had to face defeat by 6 wickets against Bangladesh and then in the second match against host India by 8 wickets. If we talk about the players of the Afghan team, there are many lethal bowlers in the team who can turn the match on their own. Let us know what the pitch report of Arun Jaitley Stadium says.
ENG vs AFG: Pitch Report
The pitch of Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi is slow. Due to which it is very difficult to score more runs here. If we talk about the ground here, its boundary line is small but despite this, the batsmen have been found struggling with the ball while batting on the pitch. Sipan bowlers can show their magic on this pitch. This pitch spin helps the bowlers a lot. On this pitch, the ball gets a little stuck due to which there is some difficulty while batting. But so far, completely opposite circumstances have been seen in both the matches played here in the World Cup 2023. Afghanistan has already played a match on this pitch with India on 11 October. It can be said that this pitch can help Afghanistan’s bowlers to a great extent.
Arun Jaitley Stadium pitch is proving to be heaven for batsmen
In this World Cup, Delhi’s pitch is proving to be heaven for the batsmen. The batsmen are scoring a lot of runs here on a flat pitch. So far, both the matches played in this World Cup in Delhi have been high scoring. In the first match, South Africa had scored a record 428 runs on the pitch of Arun Jaitley Stadium. In response, Sri Lanka also scored 326 runs. In the second match between India and Afghanistan, Team India had achieved the target of 273 runs in 15 overs. The average score of the first innings on this pitch is 238 runs. The England-Afghanistan match can also prove to be a high scoring match. Apart from this, till now 30 ODI matches have been played in Arun Jaitley Stadium, out of which 14 matches have been won by the team batting first and 15 matches have been won by the team batting second. There was no result of one match.