ICC World Cup 2023: India (273/2) defeat Afghanistan (272/8) by 8 wickets

[Devadwal]

Four more .

 

[Visaal-E-Yaar]

Followed by 4.
This is like mortal kombat kind of "finish him" batting

 

[Ali Active]

vada pav power.

 

[Mas-LFC]

Rohit Sharma is such a gun batsman! Love watching him so effortlessly smokes it around the park

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Beautiful

 

[Mockingbird]

Ishan seems like a timid player as a opener. Is he better at middle order?
Does india see something in him?

He can be very explosive as well. But I agree, he is better off in the middle order as he is a good player of spin. LHB is a rarity in this Indian lineup.

 

[Devadwal]

IND 87/0 (9)
What a brilliant start by Rohit Sharma

 

[jnaveen1980]

87 runs 71 runs by ROhit lol Reminds me of Jayasuriya days with attapattu

 

[kron]

What brutal batting. Insane. At this rate they will finish this off in 35 overs itself.

 

[ex-q-zit]

He has issues vs bounce/pace from memory. Similar to iyer but not as bad of a weakness. Maybe he just needs to be more relaxed. He has the power game

No. He pulled 2 consecutive bouncers of Nortje to 6s last year. He is good against pace/bounce too.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

What brutal batting. Insane. At this rate they will finish this off in 35 overs itself.

30 overs

 

[Champ_Pal]

Afghans need to find some magic to make a match out of it.

 

[Devadwal]

Mujeeb back to the attack.

 

[Devadwal]

Poor from Nabi

 

[Mockingbird]

IND 87/0 (9)
What a brilliant start by Rohit Sharma

TBH, this pitch deserves this kind of treatment. Felt India really bowled well to restrict Afg to 272 today

 

[Mas-LFC]

Afghan bowling attack is toothless on any decent batting track. They have no pacers who can bowl 145kph above. Not that it would have mattered the way R Sharma blasting them around most bowling attack will flustered.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Ishan is doing the right thing. Rohit is taking all the risks. He just needs to give the strike to Rohit to do all the hard work.

 

[Devadwal]

IND 94/0 (10)
Rohit 76*(43)
Kishan 11(17)*

 

[Mas-LFC]

Poor from Nabi

M Nabi is a liability for Afghanistan he slowed the innings didn’t show any intent batted like a fish out of the pond

 

[Champ_Pal]

Afghan bowling attack is toothless on any decent batting track. They have no pacers who can bowl 145kph above. Not that it would have mattered the way R Sharma blasting them around most bowling attack will flustered.

This is not the pitch where their spin trio can weave the magic. Afghans will be dangerous on pitches like Chennai one.

 

[globetrotter]

Rohit Sharma unleashed..... India wants to achieve this target under 30 overs

 

[Raja Ishtiaq]

Atleast Marsh tried to make it look real last match by attempting the catch, Afghanistan aren't even doing that.

 

[Devadwal]

Atleast Marsh tried to make it look real last match by attempting the catch, Afghanistan aren't even doing that.

Directly say it becouse of IPL contract? Isn't it.

 

[gani999]

Would it be bigger than Kenya's upset back in 98? I understand that team was mediocre & will lose 9/10 matches against current team. But still at the end of the day, it was Kenya, an association team, the Afgans definitely have more hype than that Kenyan team.

The Afghans are way better than Kenya ever were. The only Kenyan player worth naming is Steve Tikolo. Kenya's cricket pretty much closed down when he retired.

 

[RamLakhan]

Directly say it becouse of IPL contract? Isn't it.

It is because of IPL that Afghans are even a bit competitive in International Cricket (that too against Pakistan, because Pakistanis don't have experience in IPL, so it matters! Afghans play IPL mode cricket against Pakistan to look more competitive!)

 

[Devadwal]

IND 100/0 (12)
Last 2 over Only 6 runs

 

[Mas-LFC]

This is not the pitch where their spin trio can weave the magic. Afghans will be dangerous on pitches like Chennai one.

They can’t hope for such pitches all the time can they? They need to produce better middle order batsmen, be able to score big scores and bowlers who can bowl 145kph, need few more pacers. Icc events wickets tend to be on the batting side so their spinners aint gonna get much help.

 

[ex-q-zit]

Atleast Marsh tried to make it look real last match by attempting the catch, Afghanistan aren't even doing that.

Then why were catches dropped in yesterday's match?

 

[jnaveen1980]

Afghan bowling attack is toothless on any decent batting track. They have no pacers who can bowl 145kph above. Not that it would have mattered the way R Sharma blasting them around most bowling attack will flustered.

If anything 145k bowlers will fall right in to t he hands of Rohit, Kohli, Rahul. Their only weakness is swing even if you bowl at 130 kph

 

[ex-q-zit]

@kron like I said wait until Nabi and co come for Ishan to unleash.

 

[Devadwal]

First six by Ishan finnally. He need to learn how to rotate the strike

 

[Babeikh]

Afghanistan getting pulverised

 

[jnaveen1980]

They can’t hope for such pitches all the time can they? They need to produce better middle order batsmen, be able to score big scores and bowlers who can bowl 145kph, need few more pacers. Icc events wickets tend to be on the batting side so their spinners aint gonna get much help.

Delhi avge score is 230. ICC has completely changed it for some reason. On this ground flat pitch is a bad idea.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Delhi avge score is 230. ICC has completely changed it for some reason. On this ground flat pitch is a bad idea.

Too small a ground. 500 is achievable on this type of pitch. Need to be some turn at least

 

[Devadwal]

Why Rashid khan is not bowling now?

 

[7sins]

Shahidi saving Rashid for paksitan match

 

[Devadwal]

IND 125/0 (14)
Rohit 88(52)*
Kishan 30(32)*

 

[jnaveen1980]

Even in IPL average

Too small a ground. 500 is achievable on this type of pitch. Need to be some turn at least

Even IPL average first innings score here is 164. In 2023 it was 167. So something changed suddenly. Usually it is very hard to time your strokes here

 

[Farah Sohail]

I feel Pak bowlers mighy already be shivering, looking at Rohit’s form today but i hope Rohit gets his absolute best game today out of the way ..

 

[sam_ahm]

Totally dead tracks for this World Cup are making it really boring.

Now don't pounce on me for saying this in India game... Honestly I didn't even like the South Africa - Sri Lanka game, and although the Pak- SL game was good, it want a 'thriller' by any means. It was a world record run chase but didn't look some thing very special where you can say worthy of a world record... We've seen better run chases with lesser targets in WC many times before.

BCCI and ICC could have done better than this.

 

[Devadwal]

Rohit is a such a effortless hitter .

 

[JattMaula]

Even in IPL average


Even IPL average first innings score here is 164. In 2023 it was 167. So something changed suddenly. Usually it is very hard to time your strokes here

They must have relaid the surface. This is not a Kotla "10 inch bounce" wicket.

 

[Champ_Pal]

They can’t hope for such pitches all the time can they? They need to produce better middle order batsmen, be able to score big scores and bowlers who can bowl 145kph, need few more pacers. Icc events wickets tend to be on the batting side so their spinners aint gonna get much help.

Exactly. This is why they are a minnow in spite of having a great spin attack. Their batting needs massive improvement and they also need a pacer who can bowl over 145k. Right now their pace bowlers are too slow to trouble the batsmen on flat beds.

 

[rickroll]

Totally dead tracks for this World Cup are making it really boring.

Now don't pounce on me for saying this in India game... Honestly I didn't even like the South Africa - Sri Lanka game, and although the Pak- SL game was good, it want a 'thriller' by any means. It was a world record run chase but didn't look some thing very special where you can say worthy of a world record... We've seen better run chases with lesser targets in WC many times before.

BCCI and ICC could have done better than this.

I liked the Chennai game given that it was bowler friendly. Low scoring thrillers are entertaining.

 

[Devadwal]

Kishan is playing spin very well Today .I'm surprised

 

[Champ_Pal]

Totally dead tracks for this World Cup are making it really boring.

Now don't pounce on me for saying this in India game... Honestly I didn't even like the South Africa - Sri Lanka game, and although the Pak- SL game was good, it want a 'thriller' by any means. It was a world record run chase but didn't look some thing very special where you can say worthy of a world record... We've seen better run chases with lesser targets in WC many times before.

BCCI and ICC could have done better than this.

This looks more like a T20 pitch. There needs to be some assistance for either pacers or spinners to make the contest even.

Also, batting under lights looks a lot easier. We saw that yesterday when Pakistan chased 345 easily against Lankans.

 

[kron]

Kishan seems ro have issues vs rashid.

 

[vodafone_lover]

Yes, rohit is doing for my FC league, get 100 here

Wishing you a success and win 1 Cr. Today with his help

 

[batandballbattle]

they look like doing it in about 32 overs!

 

[ex-q-zit]

Kishan seems ro have issues vs rashid.

Both are being wary of Rashi and rightly so. When you are getting easy runs against others why take a risk aginst the best bowler.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Totally dead tracks for this World Cup are making it really boring.

Now don't pounce on me for saying this in India game... Honestly I didn't even like the South Africa - Sri Lanka game, and although the Pak- SL game was good, it want a 'thriller' by any means. It was a world record run chase but didn't look some thing very special where you can say worthy of a world record... We've seen better run chases with lesser targets in WC many times before.

BCCI and ICC could have done better than this.

I don't think they have been overly flat except SA-SL game.
These are similar scores to many bilaterals in India.

How many games have crossed even 300?

Only 3 I think.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Viv Richards getting out to Madan Lal must be the lowest point in Richards Career

 

[SpiritOf1903]

they look like doing it in about 32 overs!

30 max

 

[vodafone_lover]

WoW...goosebumps ...Vande mataram chanting with light show !!

 

[Devadwal]

What a atmosphere . When vandematram song is play .love it

 

[Saanji]

Vande Mataram in stadium always is goosebumps moments

 

[Aseem_Khan]

ICC Ruined indian pitches earlier 280-290 Used to Be winning score and 350 almost 95% gonna win you matches but icc prepared Roads This time.

 

[MMHS]

Afghanistan don't have the heart to turn up against India, a populace with which they share barely any commonality.

They're only pulsating out of their chests when they're up against the nation who has helped them the most.

Peculiar bunch of people.

To be honest, it’s not about heart. I read lot about which people have “heart” against which team, but honestly speaking it doesn’t matter when 11 people enter a field to compete with another set of 11 - regardless of country, colour, language, religion or past.

Simple reason, why AFGs do well against PAK is because of respective team composition & strength (weakness). AFG’s strength is in two areas - unorthodox but accurate spin attack & their brutal hacking with bat. If you notice carefully, their spin attack is absolutely no threat to Indian batsmen who are good players of spin and use proper footwork to nullify the unorthodox spin threat. Similarly, Indians play proper spinners, unlike “spin allrounders” like Pakistan- problem with playing against such spinners is that if you try to slog, invariably you’ll sky some and miss the flight of some. Unless PAK pacers gets early wickets, AFG hacks will enjoy sweet times against PAK part-time spinners, part-time allrounders. While, their spinners will always enjoy good times against PAK batting, which is historically the weakest PAK lineup when it comes to spin play.

Take the last BD-AFG game - out of 10 wickets - 5 were out skying the ball, and five were bowled through the gate - you’ll never see such combinations in any other teams’ batting card. All I saw is Shakib & Miraz took pace out, gave flight and asked AFGs to use their feet …. all 5 perished trying to slog cross batted to slow spin that didn’t come on to bat.

Even then, in recent series, on a sluggish track, PAK batted first, struggling against their spinners, then blew AFGs under 70 (or 60?), next game Gurbaz hacked his way to 150, still their spinners couldn’t defend 300!!!

T20 is a bit different because first of all that game is too short to expose Afghan batting vulnerability, and their brutal hitting is more effective in shorter games; then their spinners on turning tracks (they didn’t shine faces much in Australian WC to be honest) will be more potent when batsmen are forced to go after. Still, AFGs T20 game has stagnated.

 

[jnaveen1980]

They must have relaid the surface. This is not a Kotla "10 inch bounce" wicket.

yes. Looks that way

 

[Unbiased-Fan]

One of the long standing record of Sachin is broken and more to follow in upcoming days
Mixed feeling

 

[gani999]

Rohit is a such a effortless hitter .

Rohit is devastating when in form. Can single-handedly dismantle any bowling attack.
I hope his form here carries into the Pak game.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Vande Mataram in stadium always is goosebumps moments

AR Rehman's magic.

 

[Devadwal]

7 world cup hundred for hitman . Amazing record breaking innings . fastest ever world cup hundred by an Indian
Congratulations

 

[TheSultan]

Last wc, could have won if not Shami.

Yes good reminder, but since then he has been pathetic

 

[TheSultan]

Afghanistan are so pathetic vs India.

 

[pakistani pride]

Hope folks see now the advantage of 6s in the PP and an opener smashing a 100 with a 150 plus SR.

 

[sam_ahm]

I don't think they have been overly flat except SA-SL game.
These are similar scores to many bilaterals in India.

How many games have crossed even 300?

Only 3 I think.

No mate, No... I don't think any pitch was sportive other than the India-Australia one and the Bangladesh-Afghanistan one.

 

[Devadwal]

IND - 154/0 (18)

 

[castortroy]

Afghanistan are so pathetic vs India.

So are pak though

No one is beating India in this tournament

 

[jnaveen1980]

Can't blame Afghan bowlers here. ON this ground even Rajitha looked like a proper slogger against SA bowling.

 

[jnaveen1980]

500 may be breached soon here. Atleast Ahmedabad ground is bigger

 

[ex-q-zit]

Afghanistan don't have the heart to turn up against India, a populace with which they share barely any commonality.

They're only pulsating out of their chests when they're up against the nation who has helped them the most.

Peculiar bunch of people.

Helped them the most? US along with Pakistan was instrumental in placing taliban on the heads of the Afghans. Millions fled to Pakistan due to it and now they want to drive them out again. If this is help then i hope no one gets such help.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

No mate, No... I don't think any pitch was sportive other than the India-Australia one and the Bangladesh-Afghanistan one.

Those are 200 pitches . Those have not been the norm since like forever.

Ahmedabad pitch where England scored only 280 cannot be considered a flat pitch. They are the biggest hitting lineup.

Unless you overpitched, run scoring was difficult.

 

[Devadwal]

Kishan gone

 

[batandballbattle]

7 tons in just 3 world cups, whatta player!
Fingers crossed that he doesn't take the same liking to our bowlers...

 

[jnaveen1980]

Even against wilted Afghan attack Kishan perished without a 50.

 

[Rajdeep]

Yessss....hack Ishan Kishan gone...I am so happy

 

[Mockingbird]

Look at the crowd cheering at the dismissal. Is that for Kohli?

 

[Rajdeep]

Send SOS to Jaiswal pls for the Pakistan game...

 

[Devadwal]

Yessss....hack Ishan Kishan gone...I am so happy

We have to give confidence him before Pakistan game . Gill is out so we have no other options