ODI World Cup digest: New Zealand all but assured of a semi-final

The Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 is now gearing up for the final on November 19. Every morning, we’ll round up the latest action and news from the event and bring you the perspectives of our journalists on the ground.

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Headlines: Boult all but leads New Zealand into semi-final; SL Champions Trophy hopes fade

New Zealand 172 for 5 (Conway 45, Mitchell 43, Mathews 2-29) beaten Sri Lanka 171 (Perera 51, Boult 3-37, Ravindra 2-21) by six wickets

New Zealand all but booked their place in the World Cup semi-final against India with a dominant five-wicket win – with 160 balls remaining – against Sri Lanka in Bangalore. The result took them to ten points and a net runs rate (NRR) of 0.743, requiring Pakistan to beat England by 287 runs, while Afghanistan need an even more fantastic victory of 438 points against South Africa, if it wants to overtake New Brunswick. Zeeland NRR.

If Pakistan were to compete, they would have no chance of qualifying.

As for Sri Lanka, the margin of defeat against New Zealand left them languishing in ninth place, therefore out of qualification for the 2025 Champions Trophy. They now need England or Bangladesh to suffer losses. defeats – while the Netherlands also have to lose to India – as their respective NRRs fall below that of Sri Lanka.

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Match Analysis: How Santner slows down to get the better of hitters

It will not be considered the ball of this World Cup. Or even the best ball bowled by a left-arm orthodox player in this World Cup. Or even the best ball bowled by Mitchell Santner in this World Cup – that honor will surely go to the ripper he delivered to Mohammad Nabi in Chennai.

This ball was not that kind of ball, the one that instantly becomes a topic on social media. This was different, a ball less about its own magnificence than about what it revealed about the bowler’s craft in its entirety. It was the kind of ball that made you wish you had paid more attention to each previous ball that bowler had sent and decide to pay extra attention to each subsequent ball.

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One to watch: Sri Lanka’s batting was a huge disappointment

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Maharoof: Sri Lanka batting was a huge disappointment

Farveez Maharoof and Steve Harmison on a failed campaign for Sri Lanka

News headlines

• The BCB has sought an explanation from Bangladesh fast bowling team coach Allan Donald for his comments on the sending off of Angelo Mathews after the World Cup match in Delhi on November 6. In an interview with CricBlog.net, conducted shortly after returning to his hotel in Delhi, Donald said “it was disappointing to see” this kind of dismissal and he found it “really difficult to see this unfold”.

• Ben Stokes never considered the possibility of leaving the World Cup early to bring forward his impending knee surgery, despite England’s Test tour of India looming in two and a half months. Going home, he said, would have been “the easy way out.”

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Afghanistan vs South Africa, Ahmedabad (2 p.m. IST; 8:30 a.m. GMT; 7:30 p.m. AEDT)

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Harmison: Chance for SA to reach semi-finals with momentum

Should SA rest de Kock for Afghanistan match? Harmison is looking forward to the match

Afghanistan were so close to achieving their most important ODI victory. Against Australia. For a chance at the World Cup semi-finals. Almost there. Before a meteor the size of Glenn Maxwell flattens them.

They are now in Ahmedabad to play their final league match and will bow out of the World Cup at the world’s largest cricket stadium. Having beaten Scotland just once in 2015 and 2019, Afghanistan this time beat three former champions – England, Sri Lanka and Pakistan – as well as the Netherlands, but victory for 438 points they need against South Africa to knock New Zealand out of fourth place on net run rate is impossible. An exit with ten points, as many as the fourth-qualified team, would in itself be a massive victory, however. More seriously, England would be only too happy to get away from this miserable campaign now.

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File: Clinical, risk-assessed, productive: the evolution of strikers in Afghanistan reaches new heights

Do you still remember this shot? The shot before the shots that you will never forget. The shot before Glenn Maxwell hits shots that even Glenn Maxwell might think are a little too much.

This shot was taken by Ibrahim Zadran earlier in the match and on any other night it would have been recognized and remembered as one of the shots of the tournament. A buffered ramp – or was it a buffered ramp? – dead directly over the wicketkeeper, off Pat Cummins, to the bounce boundary: written like that, it seems a bit prosaic.

Read the full article by Osman Samiuddin