Afghanistan [286/2] cruise to a famous 8-wicket win over Pakistan [282/7] at ICC World Cup 2023

[castortroy]

Indeed , 280 on difficult wicket simply poor atrocious bowling..

Why you surprised. Have you not been watching pak attack for the last 2 months?

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

What a shameful performance by Pakistan bowlers..

 

[hassan918]

Tbh and tbf, 280 at break seemed like a winning total

It should be but our fielding, bowling and captaincy were not up to the mark.

 

[castortroy]

Pakistan assembled arguably the worst every bowling attack for a world cup

 

[JaDed]

Didn’t go for the glory shot dayum

 

[shortbread]

Hasan Ali has done well this WC, easily the best figures.

 

[7sins]

Bring in Rauf to face the humiliation

 

[gani999]

Someone was saying 200 is enough on this ground

And they were saying there is no way Afghanistan is going to chase 283, and that Afghan batting after Gurbaz was rubbish...

 

[pillionrider]

Afg seem to have gotten some high quality mental conditioning. Never seen their batsmen look so composed against Pak bowling. They've run Pak so close many times, but collapsed mentally. These guys look like another team - the batsmen.

 

[Devadwal]

Yes indeed bro!!!

Afghanistan can thank me as i was doing reverse jinxing for them from start of the Afghanistan innings.

 

[Kroll]

What a shameful performance by Pakistan bowlers..

Doesn't help with 90s style batting approach, should be aiming for 350 scores not 280!

 

[sweep_shot]

4 runs are needed from 2 overs.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Cake boys wah g wag.

Need a sharp knife for these cakes

 

[NeVerMind]

Did we improve our run-rate? Anyone?

 

[Asif321]

Thank you babar .

 

[JaDed]

This is like Virat Kohli, Kl Rahul level chase.

Surprisingly mature chase .. I thought they will slog soon

 

[jusarrived]

Afg has not looked like a minnow, bowling, batting or fielding today. Great win

 

[KingKhanWC]

Poetic if they finish this against Afridi.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Great maturity by Afghans. There was no real minnow tendency during this chase.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Man what a cool batting performance by Afghans..total control. In a cruise mode and not a single shot in panic

 

[jnaveen1980]

They are walking towards the win.

 

[ssuhaide]

Congratulations to Afghanistan. Worthy winners played without fear and it was an easy win. Finally gotten the monkey off their back. As for Pakistan nothing is going to change soon the status quo will cling on and better get ready to play the likes of Scotland, Nepal and Hong Kong.

 

[ArabKnight]

Remove Babar Azam from all forms of cricket.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Are yaar Finish it off

 

[Devadwal]

Please bro finish this game now. No more heart break

 

[vodafone_lover]

Yes...Yes...Yes

Mark a slap on that trundler rauf who is pointing to every batsman once got them out.

Raato ko neend nahi aayegi ghamandi ko, Aisa suluk Mila hai use is world cup mein, everyone now needs a psycatrist

Mazaa aa gaya bhai aaj, way more than my homeland victory!!

 

[oatmeal]

3 off 9

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Remove Babar Azam from all forms of cricket.

Overreaction. Remove as captain you mean

 

[ezhil]

One of the worst days if you are a pakistan cricket fan.....a kick in the gut

 

[emranabbas]

Remove Babar Azam from all forms of cricket.

Not just babar all his friends too plus inzi and rest of the selectors and the coaching staff

 

[gani999]

I'm backing Afghanistan to make the semis. Heck, even if the final is between Afghanistan and India, I'll support the Afghans.
This is terrific stuff. Don't ever dare call the Afghans minnows any more. They are a proper cricketing side.

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Scores are level..

 

[NeVerMind]

We will still manage to cut a cake tonight because we hit a six in the power play!

 

[Devadwal]

Are they idiots? Why going for Glory shot instead just taking single

 

[oatmeal]

Match tied now

 

[jnaveen1980]

Very thoroughly professional.

 

[7sins]

These bcs getting money to play like that ?

 

[sweep_shot]

Afghans are 2 runs away.

 

[dravidthewall]

Scores level

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Look at afghanistan bringing variety of spinners into this WC , Pakistan playing two right arm leg spinners and they had 4 years to build a team....Had 3-4 different selectors, chairman etc but couldnt do anything lol

 

[globetrotter]

Afghan fans will celebrate this as If they won WC

 

[jnaveen1980]

Are they idiots? Why going for Glory shot instead just taking single

Pakistan gave up last over itself

 

[sweep_shot]

Scores are level.

 

[ezhil]

Lol chennai was their indian fortress

 

[OldWarHorse]

Well Pakistan players have the next birthday to look forward to

 

[par]

Another one sided match in the end.

 

[Iamcoolwhiz]

282 for 2. That's demolition of the highest order

 

[7sins]

Babar come to after match media talk don't hide behind your coach

 

[Major]

The captainc leads from the front.

 

[JaDed]

win by a boundary wd to Afghans, Shahidi was surprisingly good!

 

[Devadwal]

Congratulations Afghanistan .

 

[jnaveen1980]

This is even more embarrassing as Afghans lost only 2 wickets. Congrats Afghans. Talk about boosting the NRR.

 

[Kaptan]

Yessss!!! Congratulations Afghanistan

 

[Rajdeep]

20 million people watching in hotstar...even more than IPL Finals.

A real El Classico

 

[dravidthewall]

Afghanistan won

 

[sweep_shot]

Afghans have done it.

Great win. Great game.

 

[oatmeal]

This was a mature chase from Afghanistan, to be honest I didnt think they had in them. I thought the only way of an upset was if they bowl Pakistan out cheaply or throttle them under pressure in a chase.

They didnt look like a minnow team today

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

Congratulations afghan brothers. Very well deserved victory

 

[KingKhanWC]

Congratulations to Afghanistan. One of the best performances of this world cup. Showed serious bottle to chase this at a canter. Sadly I dont they will make the semis tho.

Pakistan played like minnows, some serious soul searching is needed.

Its going to be very depressing playing the rest of the matches in India, knowing you are out.

 

[Devadwal]

What happened to spinning pitch?? Lol it was a flat wicket

 

[rhony]

This is even more embarrassing as Afghans lost only 2 wickets. Congrats Afghans. Talk about boosting the NRR.

NRR doesn't depend on wickets. It's runs and overs

 

[The_KING]

Congrats to Afghani fans.

 

[kingusama92]

Quality performance from Afghanistan. Well-deserved win without a doubt.

 

[globetrotter]

What aaa victory …. Congratulations Afghanistan

 

[Sunzi]

Best part of 300 runs and we couldn't take more than 2 wickets.

Embarrassing. We are done.

 

[7sins]

Bc team

 

[TheSultan]

Who was the minnow and who was the professional team - you’d never know

 

[MMHS]

Couldn’t get a single wicket from 2 down …. FGS, I have predicted many lows of PAK cricket, but never saw this coming - AFGs chasing 280+ at Chennai under light with 2 down!!!!

 

[topspin]

Time to make SSA the captain

Best player in the team. But he’s too emotional. Also he doesn’t need to play every meaningless bilateral game.

 

[Devadwal]

Really feeling very happy for Afghanistan brothers . For me it's like india win the match against Pakistan.

 

[Spitfire]

Proud Afghans have come of age today.

Very well deserved and a comprehensive thrashing of Pakistan.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Rahmat Shah scoring 77 off 84?

Threads and comments praising PAK phasht bowling should really be banned on PP.

That is the worst bowling performance I've seen in a long time .

Congrats Afghans

 

[Rajdeep]

I wont lie but this feels better than India beating Pakistan

 

[rhony]

Pak's wishes before the game were
Win toss and bat first
Score above 270
No wickets for Mujeeb and Rashid
Babar back into form

All the wishes were fulfilled but they still lost. Special performance from Afghans. Congrats!!

 

[topspin]

Afg seem to have gotten some high quality mental conditioning. Never seen their batsmen look so composed against Pak bowling. They've run Pak so close many times, but collapsed mentally. These guys look like another team - the batsmen.

Also much fitter than the Pakistan players.

 

[NeVerMind]

Babar should abdicate from Kuptaancy and give it to Chacha for the rest of the WC...let's have some fun and give Chacha a proper sending off in his twilight years

 

[jnaveen1980]

This looks somewhat one-sided given that Pakistan was not in this game at any stage.

Look at the win probability graph. From Half point it never became red. 80% of t he time it was Afghanistan.

 

[Kroll]

Best player in the team. But he’s too emotional. Also he doesn’t need to play every meaningless bilateral game.

Yeah mismanaged him instead of developing him properly.

 

[deltexas]

This was such a clinical performance by Afg.. total credit to them. At no stage did Pak look threatening and that was surprising.. And Afg chased like a very professional team..Pak now out of sf race unless something miraculous happens

 

[Rana]

Ab tasalli hai?