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Match No. 13
15th October 2023: 14.00 IST
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
Biggest upset of ICC World Cup 2023. Afghanistan upsets England, by defeating the World Champion of 2019 by 69 runs.
England after winning the toss in Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, asked Afghanistan to bat first.
Afghanistan 284 (49.5 overs
England 215 (40.3 overs)
This is the 2nd ever win of Afghanistan in World Cup History. This is the victory of their spinners against English batsmen.
Muzib ur Rahman and Rashid Khan has captured 3 wickets each, Mohammad Nabi 2 and Farooqi and Naveen has shared one wicket each to demolish Enland batting line up.
Batting first, Afghanistan has put a good score of 284 on the score board. Two batsmen of Afghanistan has scored fifty for their team. Gurbaz 80 (57 balls) and Ikram Aikhil 58 (66 balls). Now it was turn of their bowlers to defend this modest total of 284, which was looking achievable for England. But Afghan bowlers never let English batsmen score freely and taken wickets on regular intervals. For England only Harry Brook could score a fifty (66 off 61 balls).
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