Key features of BAN vs ENG.
1. Jason Roy and Johnny Bairstow back to their opening form and built a partnership of 128 in 19 overs, giving an amazing start to the English batting.
2. Buttler promoted up the order paid off and scored a 64(44).
3. Shakib Al Hasan continuing his outstanding form and scored a 121(119).
4. Plunkett and Woakes ending the game with amazing cameos of 27(9)* and 18(8)* respectively to come off with a positive momentum in the 2nd innings.
Post-match analysis –
1. As expected, England were the dominant side throughout the 98.5 overs.
2. England has broken Australia’s record and now have 7 consecutive 300+ ODI scores.
3. Shakib Al Hasan seems to be the lone player of Bangladesh and is in terrific form. Mushfiqur Rahim tends to support and build a partnership for the 3rd wicket stand every game but haven’t been able to capitalize on it to a win in the last two matches.
4. Bangladesh play their next against Sri Lanka. England play their next against the Windies.
5. England now has 2 wins in 3 matches and is positioned 2nd on the table. Bangladesh just has 1 win in 3 matches and is positioned 8th.
Key features of NZ vs AFG –
1. Noor Ali Zadrab and Hazratullah Zazai gave a good start in the powerplay overs against an in-form duo bowling attack of Henry and Boult.
2. Jimmy Neesham finally found form with the ball and got his maiden fifer and ended his spell with 5/31(10). His partner-in-crime for Afghanistan’s collapse was Lockie Ferguson who ended with a spell of 4/37(9.1).
3. Kane Williamson playing the perfect Captain’s knock when Guptill got out on the first ball of the 2nd innings. He carried the bat till the end and scored a 79(99)* and led the team to victory.
4. Aftab Alam played his first game in World Cup 2019 and was the lone wicket taker for Afghanistan and had a final spell of 3/45(8.1)
5. Hashmatullah Shahidi was the lone fighter in the middle order for Afghanistan to take the score to a 172. He scored a valuable 59(99).
Post-match analysis –
1. New Zealand always had the upper hand over Afghanistan and dominated the whole game.
2. New Zealand won comfortably against Sri Lanka and Afghanistan which has cruised their Net Run Rate on the points table. Remember, they are also undefeated as of now though they play all the important teams afterwards.
3. New Zealand is now the first team with 3 wins in 3 matches and is positioned 1st on the points table. On the other hand, Afghanistan is following South Africa’s footsteps and have lost all their 3 matches till now positioned last on the table.
4. New Zealand play their next against India. Whereas, Afghanistan play their next against South Africa, ensuring atleast one of the teams will surely open their account after that.
5. Afghanistan need to learn to deal with pressure situations and support each other and build partnerships since they’ve a strong bowling attack which could defend a total of even a 250. Hence, their batsmen need to take charge for once instead of one or two batsmen performing in a game. Then, they could be a good team to play against.
Up Next –
India vs Australia.
Probably one of the most awaited matches of this tournament and coming on the perfect day, a Sunday!
Australia have won both their matches which they’ve played. Whereas, India has just played one and they won that as well. So both teams seek to continue their winning momentum and look to remain undefeated for the time being.
Both teams have a quality bowling attack who can dismantle the batting of the opposition. But also has an equally strong batting attack who could go for the bowlers in these batting-friendly wickets.
Indian top-order on one end isn’t looking in a good shape and Australian bowling attack looks very strong. On the other hand, Warner and Smith’s comeback has made the team even stronger but the Kul-Cha combination is always a threat to the players and took a total of 5 wickets against SA as well in pace-friendly wickets.
Key battles –
Starc, Cummins, Zampa and Coulter-Nile vs Rohit, Dhawan, Virat, Rahul and MSD
Bumrah, Bhuvi, Kuldeep and Chahal vs Warner, Finch, Smith, Khawaja and Maxwell.
Stoinis vs Pandya
Possible replacements –
Jadeja/Shami in place of Kuldeep/Jadhav
Shaun Marsh in place of Usman Khawaja
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