Recent Match
Cricket World Cup 2023, 13th Match, Delhi, Oct 15th, 2023

England

(40.3 ov) 215/10

Afghanistan

(49.5 ov) 284/10

Complete Afghanistan won by 69 runs

Player of Match: Mujeeb Ur Rahman

We're back for the chase, 284 is competitive, but England bat deep and have plenty of power. Afghanistan's only hope will be to keep taking wickets and keep England under pressure.
Highest totals for Afghanistan in World Cups
288 vs West Indies, Leeds, 2019
284 vs England, Delhi, 2023*
272 vs India, Delhi, 2023
247 vs England, Manchester, 2019
Liam Livingstone: Looked like a good pitch first up. I think the reason we bowled first was hoping the dew comes in and makes it a bit better second time out. It was a bit harder against spin but it was a good pitch overall. I tried to bring the stumps into play as much as I could and it came off well. It is something which I really worked on. Being the sixth bowler, you don’t always get to bowl. Sometimes I'm not needed and sometimes I'm thrown into the deep end like today. It's something I pride on. Thankfully it came out well today. I work hard with our bowling coach, Neil Killeen, making sure the leg spinners come out really well. I try to work on my off-spin whenever I can, it doesn’t come as naturally but I enjoy bowling.
17:45 Local Time, 12:15 GMT, 17:45 IST: A flying start, a shattering collapse and a brilliant comeback - that's Afghanistan's innings summed up in one sentence for you. They were asked to bat first and got off to a dream start. Woakes and Topley failed to hit their mark early and were quite loose.
49.5
Topley to Fazalhaq Farooqi, out Naveen-ul-Haq Run Out!! That'll be it, so Afghanistan will get bowled out one delivery short of 50 overs. Slower delivery banged into the track Naveen-ul-Haq run out (Buttler) 5(6) [4s-1]
Topley to Fazalhaq Farooqi, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!
49.4
Topley to Naveen-ul-Haq, 1 run, nails the yorker again, on leg-stump this time, Naveen-ul-Haq squeezes it out towards deep square leg
49.3
Topley to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run
49.2
Topley to Fazalhaq Farooqi, 1 run, short of length on middle, Fazalhaq Farooqi pressed back and mistimed a punch towards mid-on, they sneak through for one though
49.1
Topley to Fazalhaq Farooqi, no run
Right, Topley with the last over
48.6
Mark Wood to Naveen-ul-Haq, FOUR, luck favours the brave!
48.5
Mark Wood to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run
48.4
Mark Wood to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run
48.3
Mark Wood to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run, good length delivery attacking the pads, Naveen-ul-Haq looked to clip it into the leg-side and missed, got struck on the thigh pad and it went towards backward point, Fazalhaq Farooqi wasn't interested in the single
48.2
Mark Wood to Fazalhaq Farooqi, 1 run, to point
Fazalhaq Farooqi, right handed bat, comes to the crease
48.1
Mark Wood to Mujeeb, out Caught by Root!! Safe as houses is Joe Root! Mujeeb c Root b Mark Wood 28(16) [4s-3 6s-1]
Mark Wood to Mujeeb, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
Naveen-ul-Haq, right handed bat, comes to the crease