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The 30th Match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 was played yesterday between Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka, at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune. In which Afghanistan beats Sri Lanka by 7 wickets.
TOSS- Afghanistan won the toss and opted to bowl.
Sri Lankan Innings- Sri Lanka batted first and started the inning not very well, the entire team was dismissed just for 241 runs in the third ball of the final over. Pathum Nissanka played a brilliant inning of 46 runs with the help of 5 boundaries in 60 balls, Dimuth Karunaratne dismissed just for 15 runs in 21 balls, Kusal Mendis played a brilliant inning of 39 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in 50 balls, Sadeera Samarawickrama played a brilliant inning of 36 runs in 40 balls, Charith Asalanka dismissed for 22 runs in 28 balls, Dhananjaya de Silva 14 runs in 26 balls, Angelo Mathews 23 runs in 26 balls, Maheesh Theekshana 29 runs in 31 balls, Dushmantha Chameera dismissed just for 1 run in 4 balls, Kasun Rajitha 5 runs in 7 balls, and Dilshan Madushanka remains unbeaten without scoring in 4 balls. In this way, the entire team dismissed for 241 runs in 49.3 overs and set a target of 242 runs in front of Afghanistan.
Afghanistani bowlers- Fazalhaq Farooqi performed very brilliant bowling took 4 wickets just for 34 runs in his spell, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2 wickets for 38 runs in his spell, Rashid Khan 1 wicket for 50 runs in his spell, Azmatullah Omarzai 1 wicket for 37 runs in 7 overs, Naveen-ul-Haq was wicketless for 47 runs in 6.3 overs, and Mohammad Nabi also wicketless for 33 runs in 6 overs.
Afghanistan Innings- Afghanistan chasing 242 runs in the second inning achieved the target very easily for the loss of just 3 wickets in the second ball of the 46th overs. Afghanistan started the inning very brilliantly although the first wicket was dismissed very quickly, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran came to start the inning, the first wicket was dismissed without scoring in the fourth ball of the first over, Rahmanullah Gurbaz dismissed just in 4 balls without scoring, next batsman Rahmat Shah came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 73 runs with Ibrahim Zadran for the second wicket, the second wicket has dismissed for 73 runs in 16.5 overs, Ibrahim Zadran dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 39 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in 57 balls, next batsman Hashmatullah Shahidi came to bat and handled the inning with Rahmat Shah, the third wicket has dismissed for 73 runs in 16.5 overs, Rahmat Shah dismissed after playing a brilliant half-century inning of 62 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in 74 balls, followed by Azmatullah Omarzai came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory wit Hashmatullah Shahidi, Hashmatullah Shahidi played the very brilliant unbeaten half-century and a victory inning of 58 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaires in 74 balls, and Azmatullah Omarzai also played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and a victory inning of 73 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 6 boundaries in 63 balls. In this way, Afghanistan chased the target very easily for the loss of just 3 wickets in just 45.2 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.
Sri Lankan bowlers- Dilshan Madushanka took 2 wickets for 48 runs in 9 overs, Kasun Rajitha 1 wicket for 48 runs in his spell, Maheesh Theekshana was wicketless for 55 runs in his spell, Dushmantha Chameera wicketless for 51 runs in 9.2 overs, Dhananjaya de Silva wicketless for 21 runs in 4 overs, and Angelo Mathews also wicketless for 18 runs in 3 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Afghanistani bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling and took 4 wickets just for 34 runs in his spell.
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