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ICC World Cup 2023: Glenn Maxwell's incredible 201*(128) leads Australia (293/7) to a fantastic 3-wicket win against Afghanistan (291/5)

This is best opportunity go get it boys .afghans will give 200 percent now
 
sweep_shot said:
They have 4 spinners today. They dropped a pacer for Noor.

Nabi, Noor, Mujeeb, and Rashid.
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Oh my Goodness

Afghanistan have a very good score on the board. It’s really the best they could have hoped for against this Australian attack
 
ex-q-zit said:
I feel AFG is short by atleast 40 runs. It all depends on the spinners now though Wankhede doesn't offer much for them.
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Biggest weakness for Austliran top order is off spinners. Struggled against Glen phillips. Coincidentally Afghans by default open with off spinner.
 
Playing 4 spinner at wankhede is very risky Australia don't play spin good but on this type if pitch you won't get any help
 
7sins said:
Playing 4 spinner at wankhede is very risky Australia don't play spin good but on this type if pitch you won't get any help
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Actually Aghan spinners are unique. They are just not spinners. They also swing the ball. Both Mujeeb and Nabhi actually also swings and spins.
 
Afghanistan have got the score they need to defend this. If Hashmatullah is correct, we will see some spin in the 2nd innings.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Actually Aghan spinners are unique. They are just not spinners. They also swing the ball. Both Mujeeb and Nabhi actually also swings and spins.
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Their skill level is quite above than many spinners going around the world right now in LOs Cricket.
 
7sins said:
Playing 4 spinner at wankhede is very risky Australia don't play spin good but on this type if pitch you won't get any help
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Afg strength is their spin attack. Their pacers are average at best. They are backing their strength.
 
If AFG had to drop a pacer, they should have dropped Naveen for Noor. Not Fazal. Ideally they should have played both Naveen and Fazal.
 
Afg are no longer minnows. No minnow plays like this and challenges top teams and even win it. They are a mid tier team in LOI cricket. They are far ahead of teams like Bangladesh, WI and even Srilanka.
 
That was a pretty slow wicket to bat on.

If Afghanistan wins, Ibrahim has played an ATG innings
 
Pakistan need Australia to chase this.

SA will have no chance batting second you'd imagine.
 
Afghan boys are playing with passion so pitch is out of equation. Their spinners will do the job for them.
 
Major said:
and we had pakistani posters hating afg saying that australia cant lose to sides like Afghanistan.

Hoping for a Afg win tonight. Inshallah
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Most of them weren't analyst tbf.

Ik Australian team the most out of anyone. 2023 aus team is the 2nd weakest wc aus team sent.

Whole team hinges on Warner, Head and maxwell lol
 
Champ_Pal said:
Afg are no longer minnows. No minnow plays like this and challenges top teams and even win it. They are a mid tier team in LOI cricket. They are far ahead of teams like Bangladesh, WI and even Srilanka.
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Too early to say lots of smaller teams had 1 odd good tournament
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Afghanistan batting is really matured. They make sure they don't implode in the middle overs after a couple of collapses.
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+1

This am very impressed about. I thought that was something they needed to improve on and have they indeed. Playing properly, no high risk unnecessary wild shots, timely big hits. Yes it’s bit slow, but they are getting the batting foundation stronger in ODI’s which am sure in future we’ll see them scoring more faster as they are lot more stable and matured with the bat than say last world cup.
 
3 step Mantra for AFG to win

Hold your catches
Get Warner out early
Make sure your Spin advantage is counted
 
Australia match to lose they have all the experience of ipl to chase this down head and Warner will go bang bang
 
Champ_Pal said:
Afg are no longer minnows. No minnow plays like this and challenges top teams and even win it. They are a mid tier team in LOI cricket. They are far ahead of teams like Bangladesh, WI and even Srilanka.
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Zim 1999, Kenya 2003, Bangladesh 07, Ireland 07 all false dawns
 
Major said:
and we had pakistani posters hating afg saying that australia cant lose to sides like Afghanistan.

Hoping for a Afg win tonight. Inshallah
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Pakistan's qualification also depends upon an Afghanistan slip up. Either against Australia or South Africa. Just saying.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Yea. But Naveen reverses i think. There is another seamer as well in the side. Omarzai.
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Doesn't matter. Fazal gets new ball swing and Aussies don't play left arm pace well except Travis Head who can destroy left arm pace.

AFG need early wickets. And Fazal was perfect for that.
 
Ertugrul_Bey said:
Afghan boys are playing with passion so pitch is out of equation. Their spinners will do the job for them.
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They have some unique skills that nobody has. That is how teams can elevate themselves from minnow status. Srilanka came up with guys like Muralitharan to do that. Afghanistan is following the same path. Bangladesh can take a leaf out of their book.
 
Aussies will not crumble in pressure of chase. They should get over the line comfortably Inshallah
 
Kianig89 said:
Zim 1999, Kenya 2003, Bangladesh 07, Ireland 07 all false dawns
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AFG almost defeated IND and PAK in 2019 WC. Pakistan scrapped through to a win due to Naseem Shah a couple of times. AFG is a better team than all the above mentioned teams. Until this WC they did all the hard work but didn't know how to win. Now they have started learning the art of winning and its evident by them defeating 3 former Wc champions in this WC so far. Who knows today they may take down a 4th one.
 
This is enough runs to make it hard and even win this game. It's not turning track, but thankfully its not like chasing 200 runs as well.
 
7sins said:
Too early to say lots of smaller teams had 1 odd good tournament
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Many minnows have one odd win in a big tournament. But Afg are winning consistently and they are challenging big teams like Australia too. This is no fluke or flash in the pan.
 
Rana said:
It’s not a 350 pitch. It has low bounce and the ball definitely grips in the surface.
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Also this is world cup. Not bilateral. So chasing may not be straight forward. Apart from Warner and head everyone else is a circumspect while batting. Maxie can go either way.
 
GLORY OF '92 said:
So you want Afghans In semis not us.
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They deserve it more tbf. Put patriotism aside and look logically.

1) afg team has belief and doesn't back down against any team whereas Pakistan go into a shell against big dawgs especially India, it doesn't matter if India Is superior or not, Pakistan doesn't even try at this point.

2) the whole team is selected on merit and everyone of them is playing for their country. In Pakistan that's clearly not the case with memes being made such as mawaz tu hai mera match winner or rizwan saying I love acting my injuries and I'm not happy with batting at no 5, and imam teaching brendom mccullum how to bat 😂😂. Besides fakhar, Shaheen, Chacha, saud, everyone else is too focused on themselves.

Abdullah is trying to cement himself as a full time future opener, Babar is cake cutting and tik tok starring, rizzu and imam are media hyping, hasan Ali doesn't even care, Usama mir looks like he doesn't even want to okay and has no confidence etc.

3) every game they've improved cause they've understood their weakness from each game and improved on them, case in point being forget about pitch, just play to your strengths and add noor Ahmed. The leadership is strong

In Pakistan the leadership is dead.


Pcb needs to look at afg cricket board and see how they formed a team despite being minnows
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Also this is world cup. Not bilateral. So chasing may not be straight forward. Apart from Warner and head everyone else is a circumspect while batting. Maxie can go either way.
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An early wicket and then Smith will build pressure through dots. Labushange as well

Afghanistan just need to build pressure with dots.
 
ex-q-zit said:
AFG almost defeated IND and PAK in 2019 WC. Pakistan scrapped through to a win due to Naseem Shah a couple of times. AFG is a better team than all the above mentioned teams. Until this WC they did all the hard work but didn't know how to win. Now they have started learning the art of winning and its evident by them defeating 3 former Wc champions in this WC so far. Who knows today they may take down a 4th one.
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Precisely. I think they had a realization that not all 11 can be Shahid Afridis. Once the top 4 organized and started taking responsibility, they look a different team. All they need is one good pacer that can swing the ball at pace and they can beat most teams
 
Rashid Khan is fully switched on. His intensity will lift the Afghans
 
kron said:
That loss to the dancing naagins really hurt them.
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If they face them in current form they will butcher them. They were a bit careless when they started the campaign. Whatever Trott said or did they became a changed unit.
 
Rana said:
Can Afghans better Pak’s nrr today?
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Actually nvm by my calculations the difference is 40 runs, so yes they can if they win by that margin but they'll come close to it regardless today
 
Rana said:
An early wicket and then Smith will build pressure through dots. Labushange as well

Afghanistan just need to build pressure with dots.
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Smith ain't playing today bro, labu is
 
I think, AFGs have put a very good score, but not a match winning one. May be they paced their innings too late - 5 down and under per score suggests Ibrahim didn’t pace up enough after getting his hundred. They could have finished like 312/9.

The difference with England game is that that day, they had an express start - before Poms could figure out what hit them, AFGs were 70-80 , then the tail finished strong - normally that scoring pattern suggests that wicket wasn’t that good for batting and the fielding side wasn’t organised. Here I think Aussies found the wicket to be excellent batting track & instead of being too aggressive for wickets, they settled for restricting AFG to a target.

Still, I believe the last two overs changed the context lot - Aussies would have settled for 275, but now they’ll chase 30 more. Couple of early wickets… you never know. Aussie batting is head heavy - two lefti openers do the heavy lifting - Mujib is probably the best bowler against lefti within PP.
 
Lance Morris
Jhye Richardson injury prone
Stekette?
Wow depth is poor. So pakistan had 50 players better than Aussie bench?
 
Espn Cricinfo win probability
Afghanistan - 57%
Australia --43%
Ye tho lolwa hogaya !!!
 
Rana said:
That’s where the game is. Labushange and the pressure he puts on his side
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Well they were forced to decide between Smith and labu and they took labu.

With Marsh, Head, and Warner, you can't have both Smith and labu play.

It's a forced choice sadly. Both are massive thorns in the side.

Labu is a lesser thorn for aus standards atm
 
MMHS said:
I think, AFGs have put a very good score, but not a match winning one. May be they paced their innings too late - 5 down and under per score suggests Ibrahim didn’t pace up enough after getting his hundred. They could have finished like 312/9.

The difference with England game is that that day, they had an express start - before Poms could figure out what hit them, AFGs were 70-80 , then the tail finished strong - normally that scoring pattern suggests that wicket wasn’t that good for batting and the fielding side wasn’t organised. Here I think Aussies found the wicket to be excellent batting track & instead of being too aggressive for wickets, they settled for restricting AFG to a target.

Still, I believe the last two overs changed the context lot - Aussies would have settled for 275, but now they’ll chase 30 more. Couple of early wickets… you never know. Aussie batting is head heavy - two lefti openers do the heavy lifting - Mujib is probably the best bowler against lefti within PP.
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Take head Warner and maybe Smith out. Game over.
 
Another statement by afghans and further proof that they can no longer be considered minnows
I still feel that they're 40-50 runs short, especially with maxwell back. They should be able to cause some trouble to Australia though, minimum 5 wickets I reckon.
 
batandballbattle said:
Another statement by afghans and further proof that they can no longer be considered minnows
I still feel that they're 40-50 runs short, especially with maxwell back. They should be able to cause some trouble to Australia though, minimum 5 wickets I reckon.
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Nobody has chased 290 plus ever on this ground.
 
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