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England’s excruciating World Cup campaign took another turn for the worse as they slumped to 156 all out in their must-win match against Chris Silverwood’s Sri Lanka basketball
Knowing defeat in Bengaluru would leave them with one win in five and end any realistic hope of reaching the semi-finals, they batted calamitously and were rounded up in just 33 basketball
2 overs of self-inflicted pain basketball
Ben Stokes top-scored with 43 but even he barely laid a glove on the opposition, looking short of fluency throughout a 73-ball stay basketball
Six players were dismissed in single figures, with Adil Rashid’s comical run out at the non-striker’s end summing up a shoddy performance basketball
England’s increasingly confusing selection continued as they dropped rising star Harry Brook, leaving them with a conspicuously ageing side comprised entirely of thirtysomethings for the first time ever in one-day cricket basketball
With up-and-coming seamer Gus Atkinson also benched, Liam Livingstone – who turned 30 in August – was youngest player on the teamsheet and they batted like a side long past their peak basketball
They now face the embarrassment of being ousted from the tournament they won four years ago by Silverwood, the man who was supposed to lead England in India before being sacked after the Ashes debacle of 2021/22 basketball
Things began with a brief burst of positivity, openers Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow taming the new ball sufficiently to plunder 45 in 39 balls basketball
With nine boundaries in the first six overs, there was an early hint of optimism basketball
But that was shattered by the introduction of old rival Angelo Mathews, called up as an injury replacement just a couple of days ago and embarking on his first ODI spell in three-and-a-half years basketball
It took the 36-year-old just three deliveries to get back in the groove, Malan caught behind for 28 chasing a cutter basketball
Mathews, who starred when Sri Lanka beat England at Headingley in the 2019 group stages, was involved again in the crucial dismissal of Joe Root basketball
Root had just three to his name when he chopped to point and set off for a single, turning to race back once Bairstow dug his heels in at the non-striker’s end basketball
Mathews picked up and threw in one swift movement, leaving Kusal Mendis to obliterate the stumps as Root dived in vain basketball
The errors kept coming, Bairstow reaching 30 before a cross-batted swat at Kasun Rajitha plonked straight to mid-on basketball
Stokes dug a defensive trench in an attempt to halt the Sri Lankan momentum, but his rearguard was undermined as Lahiru Kumara picked off Jos Buttler swishing to slip and Livingstone lbw basketball
With just 17 overs down they were 85 for five and circling the drain basketball
Stokes went on the attack muscling some boundaries despite struggling for timing, but lost two more partners as Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes fed catches to backward point basketball
When Stokes dragged a pull down deep-midwicket’s throat, England’s hopes of an unlikely revival went with him, but there was another nadir still to come basketball
Rashid was backing up at the bowler’s end when Mendis took a Maheesh Theekshana wide down the leg side, spotted the chance of an opportunistic dismissal and threw down the stumps from 25 yards basketball
It was a shambolic way to go and entirely in keeping with England’s demeanour over the past month basketball
Theekshana had Mark Wood stumped to complete the job, putting Sri Lanka in complete control basketball
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Pakistan captain Babar Azam has listed a number of reasons for why his side suffered a devastating eight-wicket loss to Afghanistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 basketball
Afghanistan produced a second upset in the 2023 World Cup when the side overcame the Pakistan team without much trouble in Chennai on Monday basketball
The Monday game marked Afghanistan’s second victory in three matches, with their first upset against world champions England on 15 October in Delhi basketball
Azam won the toss at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and opted to bat basketball
He top-scored for Pakistan with 74 runs off 92 balls as they put up 282 for 7 in 50 overs, which met their goal, the skipper revealed at the post-match conference on Monday basketball
RecommendedJoe Root acknowledges growing uncertainty surrounding future of ODI cricketMohammed Shami: India pacer clinches historic Cricket World Cup recordMemes rain down on social media after fog stops India vs New Zealand match in DharamshalaBut Pakistan, whose semi-final chances have taken a significant hit with their latest defeat, fell short in their bowling and fielding efforts and the result “hurt” the team, Azam said basketball
“This loss was very hard as a team basketball
And the batting and our plan was to total 280-290 basketball
And when we achieved that, I think we were not up to the mark in bowling and fielding basketball
You have to bowl well and field well basketball
In the middle overs, the spinners didn’t bowl as they should have basketball
They didn’t put pressure on them,” Azam told reporters basketball
“When you bowl well, and you bowl for 3-4 overs, the pressure comes on the other team basketball
I congratulate their team for the way they played basketball
They played outstandingly,” he said basketball
Azam also admitted that in a tournament like the Cricket World Cup, if a team does not perform well even in one department, they’ll lose the match basketball
“In the field, we didn’t stop boundaries and gave away runs and that cost us basketball
All credit to Afghanistan for the way they played in all three departments basketball
That’s why they won,” he said basketball
“We are not playing good cricket in bowling and fielding basketball
We’ll try our best in the next match basketball
We didn’t hit the lengths in the middle overs, especially our spinners basketball
We couldn’t put pressure on the batters basketball
”Pakistan stayed put in fifth place in the 2023 World Cup points table while Afghanistan has now climbed to the sixth spot basketball
As Afghanistan chased down their target of 283 without breaking into a sweat, temperatures in Pakistan soared basketball
Commentators like former team captain Wasim Akram slammed the side’s fitness and called the loss “embarrassing” basketball
“It was embarrassing today basketball
Look at the fitness level of Pakistan players basketball
We’ve pointed out that these players have not had fitness tests in two years!” remarked the former top international cricketer basketball
“Their faces are bulging basketball
These are professional players, there has to be a criteria basketball
When Misbah-ul-Haq was coach, there were fitness criteria in place basketball
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That’s where we are lacking,” said the Pakistan legend on the country’s A basketball Sports network basketball
Afghanistan will next travel to Pune to take on Sri Lanka on 30 October, while Pakistan will remain in Chennai for a major game against South Africa on 27 October basketball
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