Cricket Chat

Paul White

09:00

AFG vs ENG, 8th Match, Group B
ICC Champions Trophy
AFG chose to bat

Paul White

09:20

🔴 Rahmanullah Gurbaz 6 (15) b Archer (4.1)

AFG 11/1

🔴 Sediqullah Atal 4 (4) lbw b Archer (4.5)

AFG 🔥🔎

AFG 15/2

AFG 15/2 (5) CRR 3

Zadran 🙌🏼 off Wood

AFG 21/2 (6) CRR 3.5

Paul White

09:48

🔴 Rahmat Shah 4 (9) c Rashid b Archer (8.5)

AFG 37/3

Paul White

10:03

AFG 39/3 (10) CRR 3.9

50 up (13.4)

AFG 56/3 (15) CRR 3.73

Paul White

10:34

AFG 81/3 (20) CRR 4.05

A J

Perfect time for ENG to take revenge of 2023

Paul White

10:48

100 up

AFG 103/3 (25) CRR 4.12

🏆 Ibrahim Zadran: 50 off 65 balls (3 x 4, 2 x 6)

Paul White

11:02

🏆 100-run partnership for Zadran & Shahidi (28.2)

AFG have settled well after a shaky start. They could still set a very decent total

🔴 Hashmatullah Shahidi 40 (67) b Rashid (29.3)

AFG 140/4

I should have kept my mouth shut

Milestone strike, perhaps

AFG 143/4 (30) CRR 4.76

A J

11:18

@PaulWhite yup

That's the beauty of ODI cricket. You get enough time to recover from a shaky start

Paul White

11:33

AFG 172/4 (35) CRR 4.91

280 still seems likely

A J

Even taking singles can do the stuff

But the question is, will 280 be sufficient?

🏆 Zadran 100 up (106 balls)

First Champions Trophy hundred for AFG

Only Pak remained without a century in this tournament

AFG 190/4(37)

200 up with a 🙌 off 🪓

> STAT:Tenth individual hundred in CT 2025 - the joint most in a single edition of the tournament alongside 2002 and 2017. Pakistan is now the only team without an individual hundred in CT 2025.

🔴 Azmatullah c (sub)Tom Banton b Jamie Overton 41(31)

AFG 212/5(40)

Paul White

12:05

One ball before the final powerplay!

A J

12:28

🏆 Zadran 150*(134) 4x11 6x4

AFG 276/5(46)

Paul White

300 is certain now, what a finish!

23 runs off Root, bowling in the 47th over for some reason

AFG 299/5 (47) CRR 6.36

300 up

A J

Wood is out and so is Livingston

Zadran can't reach 200, can he?

Paul White

Oh, I thought Wood recovered

A J

It took him 28 balls for third fifty

He got injured during bowling again

Zadran surpasses the highest individual score in champions trophy

Paul White

Set by 🦆@

A J

12:37

Last one was 165 from him

I read that Nabi wants to play with his son so he dropped the idea of announcing the retirement

Paul White

AFG 309/5 (48) CRR 6.43

Archer's figures ruined

A J

So is Root's

He had an ER of 4 before bowling that expensive over

Paul White

Archer was 3/22 (6)

A J

Ohh

That ruined the big way then

Paul White

Totally

3/64 (10) doesn't look so good

A J

12:40

Zadran needs 33 runs for 200 but I doubt he is focusing on that right now

Paul White

If they bowl Root again it's possible

A J

9 more balls and he'd have faced half of the ODI balls

@PaulWhite I doubt they will

32 required now.

Paul White

Overton 🙄

A J

30 now

Paul White

24 after that 🙌🏼

A J

12:44

Yup

Paul White

AFG 322/5 (49) CRR 6.57

A J

23 for 200 and 28 for 350

Buttler turns to Livingston

Paul White

Bowl Root! 🤣

Oh no

A J

Didn't get the distance

Paul White

🔴 Ibrahim Zadran 177 (146) c Archer b Livingstone (49.1)

Looks like he was trying for 200 after all

Or just to score heaps

A J

12:47

Yup

Paul White

AFG 323/6

Nabi and his anagram now

A J

😂 didn't notice that

Paul White

Not for long

A J

Yeah

Paul White

🔴 Mohammad Nabi 40 (24) c Root b Livingstone (49.4)

AFG 324/7

A J

12:48

Buttler might be thinking why he didn't try Livingston earlier

One more wicket and he will have the best bowling figures

Paul White

Livingston was off the field for treatment for a while

A J

Yup. I forgot

16 mins ago, by A J

Wood is out and so is Livingston

Paul White

AFG 325/7 (50)

Well, that's a good challenge for ENG. I wonder how they'll approach it

A J

Well, that's a chasable score

Paul White

2 runs and 2 wickets from the final over

A J

12:51

If they follow the plan like the last game, they will have it

Whoever lose today will be out of the tournament

Paul White

Amazing recovery from AFG

🏆 100 runs in 50 balls (Ibrahim Zadran 59, Mohammad Nabi 40, Ex 1)

Missed that right at the end there

A J

13:05

ohh

Nice

A J

13:22

🧂 opens with a boundary

🧂 boundary off Farooqi

🦆@ ❌ 🦆 with a boundary

Decode it 😅

ENG 12/0(2) need 100 🥧

🔴 Salt b Azmatullah 12(13)

ENG 19/1(3.3)

Paul White

13:41

Good early wicket, but I don't know that Salt has been a very dangerous batsman recently

I suppose 🦆@ has a chance to reclaim his record, in theory

A J

yup

Paul White

ENG 24/1 (5) CRR 4.8 RRR 6.71

🔴 Jamie Smith 9 (13) c Azmatullah Omarzai b Mohammad Nabi (6.1)

ENG 30/2

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Afg put up such a humongous score!!

Root comes in.

Starts with four.

@PaulWhite they will remember Aus.

Four from Duckett off Nabi

Eng 39 - 2 (7)

Four from Root off Azamatullah

Eng 43 - 2 (8)

6 mins ago, by User1865345

Four from Duckett off Nabi

x 2

Duckett has some unfinished business left.

My bad. It was from Root. 😅

Fifty crossed.

Eng 54 - 2 (9)

Four from Duckett off Azamatullah

Eng 60 - 2 (10)

Paul White

14:09

CRR 6 RRR 6.65

User1865345

Four from Root off Nabi

Eng 68 - 2 (11)

Four from Duckett off Rashid Khan

Eng 80 - 2 (13)

Duckett dropped 🙂

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