Afghanistan vs West Indies Highlights of ICC World Cup 2019 Match: West Indies Beat Afghanistan by 23 Runs
We are at the business end of the CWC 2019. With three semi-finalists already, in the panel for the top four, there’s just one place vacant. Teams like West Indies, Afghanistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have already been ousted from the on-going mega-event in England and Wales. Today for match number 42 we have Afghanistan locking horns with West Indies at Headingley Carnegie.
Oshane Thomas is here to bowl and starts off with a couple of dots. Mujeeb slams a FOUR down the ground. Loud cheers for the team as the gap between the runs and the ball narrows down.
Braithwaite gets another breakthrough as he gets the wicket of Rashid Khan who attempts to hit it out of the park. Holder does a fine job at the boundary and Rashid Khan OUT on 9.
Braithwaite continues and Afghanistan is inching towards losing the game as Dawlat attempts to hit big but mistimes it and Cottrell takes that one. Dawlat OUT on 1.
Braithwaite gets another breakthrough as Asghar Afghan hits the toe end of the bat and Jason Holder takes a great catch at the boundary. Afghan OUT on 40.
Keymer Roach is here to bowl and he starts off with a single. Three dot balls follow. Only three runs from the over for the team. Afghanistan needs 68 runs 36 balls.
Jason Holder is here to bowl and the Afghanistani team giving out everything to win the match. Holder starts off with a WIDE and then a FOUR over extra cover. FOUR more and a couple of singles follow. One run to end the over.
Keymar Roach gets rid of Shinwari as the batsman takes an aerial route. Hetmyer takes a stunning catch and sends him to the pavilion. Shinwari OUT on 6.
Jason Holder comes to bowl his seventh over and he starts off with a single and then a dot. A couple of runs come in from the next ball. Singles coming in quite regularly for Afghan, but they need big shots if they wish to win the game.
The Windies are trying their level best to get another wicket. Ikram is still batting on the score of 74 runs. Afghanistan still fighting hard for winning this game.
Finally, West Indies get a breakthrough as they break the partnership between Rahmat Shah and Ikram. Poor shot selection by Shah costs him a wicket and he gets OUT on 62.
Sheldon Cottrell DROPS an easy catch as Rahmat Shah skies it up sends it to long-on. Cottrell comes underneath and drops an easy catch. Afghanistan looks really good at this juncture and Windies need a wicket to break this partnership.
We are at the business end of the CWC 2019. With three semi-finalists already, in the panel for the top four, there’s just one place vacant. Teams like West Indies, Afghanistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have already been ousted from the on-going mega-event in England and Wales. Today for match number 42 we have Afghanistan locking horns with West Indies at Headingley Carnegie in Leeds. As mentioned above both teams have been disqualified from the CWC 2019 owing to their poor performance. Afghanistan vs West Indies Cricket Score 42th ODI Match.
This the first time that the two teams will have a face-off with each other in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Talking about their head-to-head record, Afghanistan clearly outweighs the Caribbean side. Out of the five times, they have played against each other, the Asian country has won thrice. One match was won by West Indies and the remaining one produced no result. Despite Afghanistan having an upper hand, the probability tells us that the West Indies have 78% of winning chances as compared to the Asian side who has 22%.
It’s the last game for both sides and needless to say Afghanistan who hasn’t won a single game in this series would want to end the marquee event on a high note. The team is placed at the bottom of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 points table. Whereas, Jason Holder’s men are on number nine with only three points. They won their first game against Pakistan and later lost the plot. So overall it’s going to be an interesting contest.
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