Due to the century partnership of young batsman Glenn Phillips and captain Tom Latham and the excellent performance of the bowlers, New Zealand defeated Afghanistan by 149 runs on Wednesday and won the ICC ODI. world cup 2023 Recorded his fourth consecutive victory. New Zealand, despite going through some difficult moments in front of Afghanistan’s spinners, made a challenging score of 288 runs for six wickets. Afghanistan, which caused the first upset of the tournament by defeating defending champions England on Sunday, was bowled out for 139 runs in 34.4 overs in response.
Phillips played an inning of 71 runs
Phillips scored 71 runs in 80 balls with the help of four fours and as many sixes. Latham scored 68 runs on 74 balls which included three fours and two sixes. Both of them made a partnership of 144 runs for the fifth wicket due to which New Zealand was successful in adding 103 runs in the last 10 overs. Before these two, Will Young (54 runs on 64 balls, four fours, three sixes) also played a half-century.
Afghanistan’s third defeat
afghanistan At no time did the team show the kind of enthusiasm and passion that it had shown against England. Its fielding was poor while its bowlers gave New Zealand a chance to make a comeback. The batsmen also showed haste while the bowling and fielding of the Kiwi team was excellent. For New Zealand, Mitchell Santner (3 for 39 runs) and Lockie Ferguson (3 for 19 runs) were the most successful bowlers while Trent Boult (2 for 18 runs) supported them well. Afghanistan lost its last four wickets in eight balls and five runs. With this win, New Zealand has reached the top of the table with eight points from four matches.
Afghanistan scored only 28 runs in the first 10 overs.
Afghanistan scored only 28 runs in the first 10 overs and meanwhile, both the openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz (11) and Ibrahim Zadran (14) lost the wickets within three balls. Matt Henry’s ball took the edge of Gurbaz’s bat and entered the wickets while Ibrahim gave an easy catch at cover on Boult’s ball. Santner took an incredible one-handed catch of captain Hasmatullah Shahidi (08 off 29 balls) at square leg on Ferguson’s ball, taking Afghanistan’s score to 43 runs for three wickets. Rahmat Shah (36 off 62 balls) and Azmat Omarzai (27 off 32 balls) then exercised caution and made a partnership of 54 runs off 70 balls for the fourth wicket. In such a situation, Latham handed the ball to Bolt and he did not disappoint the captain by getting Omarzai caught behind the wicket.
Afghanistan’s fielding was not good
Spinner Rachin Ravindra dashed Afghanistan’s hopes by catching Rahmat Shah on his own ball and Santner bowled the experienced Mohammad Nabi (07). After this, it did not take long for Afghanistan’s innings to end. Earlier, Afghanistan’s fielding was not good and they dropped at least five catches. From his side, Azmat Umarzai and Naveen Ul Haq took two wickets each. The start was not favorable for New Zealand. First he lost the toss and then in the seventh over he lost the wicket of in-form opener Devon Conway (20). Mujeeb ur Rahman’s appeal was rejected by the umpire, but after DRS, Conway had to find his way to the pavilion.
Rachin Ravindra played an inning of 32 runs
Young and Rachin Ravindra (32 off 41 balls) took advantage of Afghanistan’s poor fielding and scored runs easily and added 79 runs for the second wicket. In this way, for the fourth consecutive match, New Zealand made at least a half-century partnership for the second wicket. Both these batsmen were given life at the beginning of their innings. New Zealand’s batsmen put pressure on experienced spinner Mohammad Nabi. Young hit two of his three sixes on this bowler while Ravidra also sent his ball once for six runs. Young scored his second consecutive half-century by hitting a four on Rashid Khan.
At one time New Zealand suffered three setbacks within 8 balls.
After this, New Zealand lost three wickets in eight balls. Umarzai sent both the frozen batsmen to the pavilion in the 21st over of the innings. He first scattered Ravindra’s wickets and then got Young caught by the wicketkeeper. Rashid showed the way to the comeback to the new batsman Daryl Mitchell (01) in the next over. Due to this the score increased from 109 runs for one wicket to 110 runs for four wickets. Phillips and Latham did not let any wicket fall for about 25 overs but the pressure on them was clearly visible. This was the reason why 29 runs were scored from 21st to 30th over and 47 runs were scored from 31st to 40th over. Meanwhile, only four fours and one six were hit. Phillips completed his half-century off 69 balls and then hit two consecutive sixes on fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqui. Latham also hit two consecutive sixes and then a four on Umarzai after completing his half-century in 67 balls. Naveen dismissed both of them within three balls. After this Mark Chapman scored unbeaten 25 runs in 12 balls. He hit two fours and a six in one over of Umarzai.