🔴 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

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

AFG 37/3

AFG 39/3 (10) CRR 3.9

50 up (13.4)

AFG 56/3 (15) CRR 3.73

AFG 81/3 (20) CRR 4.05

Perfect time for ENG to take revenge of 2023

100 up

AFG 103/3 (25) CRR 4.12

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

🏆 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

@PaulWhite yup

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

AFG 172/4 (35) CRR 4.91

280 still seems likely

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)

One ball before the final powerplay!

🏆 Zadran 150*(134) 4x11 6x4

AFG 276/5(46)

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

Wood is out and so is Livingston

Zadran can't reach 200, can he?

Oh, I thought Wood recovered

It took him 28 balls for third fifty

He got injured during bowling again

Zadran surpasses the highest individual score in champions trophy

Set by 🦆@

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

AFG 309/5 (48) CRR 6.43

Archer's figures ruined

So is Root's

He had an ER of 4 before bowling that expensive over

Archer was 3/22 (6)

Ohh

That ruined the big way then

Totally

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

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

If they bowl Root again it's possible

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

@PaulWhite I doubt they will

32 required now.

Overton 🙄

30 now

24 after that 🙌🏼

Yup

AFG 322/5 (49) CRR 6.57

23 for 200 and 28 for 350

Buttler turns to Livingston

Bowl Root! 🤣

Oh no

Didn't get the distance

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

Looks like he was trying for 200 after all

Or just to score heaps

Yup

AFG 323/6

Nabi and his anagram now

😂 didn't notice that

Not for long

Yeah

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

AFG 324/7

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

One more wicket and he will have the best bowling figures

Livingston was off the field for treatment for a while

Yup. I forgot

AFG 325/7 (50)

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

Well, that's a chasable score

2 runs and 2 wickets from the final over

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

Whoever lose today will be out of the tournament

Amazing recovery from AFG

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

Missed that right at the end there

ohh

Nice

🧂 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)

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

yup

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

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)

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)

Four from Root off Nabi

Eng 68 - 2 (11)

Four from Duckett off Rashid Khan

Eng 80 - 2 (13)

Duckett dropped 🙂

🔴 Duckett lbw b Rashid Khan 38(45) [4s-4]

Good review from Afg

Brook comes in.

Brook hits two fours.

Eng 124 - 3 (20)

🔴 Brook c and b Nabi 25(21) [4s-3]

Eng 135 - 4 (22)

Not looking good for Eng

Eng 142 - 4 (24)

CRR 5.92 RRR 7.08

There's always hope while Buttler & Root are there

ENG 147/4 (25) CRR 5.88 RRR 7.16

@PaulWhite hm

👏🏻 fifty by Root

150 up

It has been five overs without boundaries.

And no sixes

Yes

Eng 153 - 4 (27)

Cricbuzz reports there is no significant dew.

Nabi is back.

Afg took a review and it was a close call. They retained the review.

Eng 160 - 4 (28)

He'd better hope the life curse is ineffective today

😅

Eng 163 - 4 (29)

🙌🏻 from Buttler off Nabi

ENG 172/4 (30) CRR 5.73 RRR 7.7

They would attack the spinners. That's their only option.

That's the first six isn't it?

Yes

It's about time Jos had one of those innings he used to be famous for

Four from Root off Ahmad

@PaulWhite yep. He can.

If he does that, that would be a remarkable one and to be precise, a captaincy saving one.

Another Buttler 🙌🏼

🏆 50 partnership in 58 balls (JE Root 28, JC Buttler 25, Ex 2)

Would be ironic if the record-setter didn't get MoM again due to his team losing the game

200 up

Eng 208 - 4 (35)

🔴 Jos Buttler 38 (42) c Rahmat Shah b Azmatullah Omarzai (36.5)

That might be the end of ENG's chances

ENG 216/5

Yep. That's it. Afg might have done it.

Stupid shot to play before the 40th over

Absolutely 🙄

Root boundary takes him into the 90s

Eng 228 - 5 (38)

CRR 6 RRR 8.17

Four from Livingstone off Gulbadin

🔴 Liam Livingstone 10 (8) c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Gulbadin Naib (38.4)

ENG 233/6

🙂

First allrounder falls quickly

It's getting really tough for Eng now.

Asking rate is still under control, but they do need to stop losing wickets

Today would be a good day for Overton to beat his highest score of 32

Or at least not get out while Root scores runs

Yes. They need at least one partnership. Root solely cannot do anything.

@PaulWhite exactly

11 runs needed from this over to leave them chasing 80 in the final powerplay

Root also needs to navigate the milestone curse

Well, they managed one run

ENG 236/6 (40) CRR 5.9 RRR 9

Good over from Ahmad

90 from 60

Root moves on to 95* with a boundary

Good

ENG 245/6 (41) CRR 5.97 RRR 9

Root on 99*

9 overs to go

This announcement sponsored by the number 9

🏆 JE Root: 100 off 98 balls (10 x 4)

@PaulWhite 🤣

Root 👏🏻

> First ODI hundred for Joe Root in 37 innings

Overton ran 3

Root now has Over a ton

250 up

ENG 251/6 (42) CRR 5.97 RRR 9.37

Afg bowled well so far.

Overton four x 2

Eng 268 - 6 (44)

58 needed in 36 balls

🙌🏻 from Root off Farooqi

Eng 278 - 6 (45)

🔴 Root c Gurbaz b Azmatullah 120(111) [4s-11 6s-1]

The big fish is caught.

Four from Archer off Azmatullah

Eng 291 - 7 (46)

Four from Archer off Farooqi

Eng 301 - 7 (47)

Equation is 25 in 18 balls.

Surely within reach.

Yup

Four from Overton off Azmatullah

🔴 Jamie Overton c Nabi b Azmatullah 32(28) [4s-3]

Nope

Rashid comes in.

Eng 310 - 8 (48)

🔴 Jofra Archer c Nabi b Fazalhaq Farooqi 14(8) [4s-2]

This turning out to be the finest game of this champions trophy

My god.

Wood, the final man comes in.

He can play big shots.

@AJ indeed

Eng 313 - 9 (49)

13 needed in the finally over. Very much achievable.

For both

Yep 😅

But it seems Afg will have the upper hand. But nothing can be said with certainty.

Rashid takes a single.

Wood can play big shot.

He takes single too. 🙂

Another single. Are they even looking at the board 😅

It seems Afg just clinched the game.

9 in 2 😤

🔴 Adil Rashid c Ibrahim Zadran b Azmatullah 5(7)

Afghanistan won by 8 runs

🤯🔥

England's journey ends here.

Azmatullah is the man of the hour.

MoM: Ibrahim Zadran

ENG had luck on their side only once during CWC19, neither before nor after

> You have to feel for Joe Root who is cutting a particularly disconsolate figure right now. In truth, he pretty much kept England in that chase single-handedly with other batters getting in and getting out once more. Buttler, Overton, Brook and Duckett all gave it away when well set. It’s been a familiar tale for England of late, they’ve now lost nine of their ten white ball matches this year and have slipped to seventh position in the ODI rankings.

@AJ true

But they played some unnecessary shots throwing away wickets at crucial points (cf. Overton).