England jumped from the ICC champions trophy after suffering an eight-direct dramatic loss to Afghanistan in what effectively achieved an eliminator between the parties in Lahore.
Following 326 to win, Joe Root hit a 120 excellent balls out of 111 balls as, despite the winners collapsed at regular intervals, England flirted on many occasions with a win that would keep their tour alive.
But the root, being compressed late in the east, fell to 46, while neither Jamie Overton (32 off 28) nor Jofra Archer (14 off 8) could see the side over the line – no boundaries were marked in 15 shipments Last as England bowed to 317.
Afghanistan is still alive on the tournament, due to a great gratitude for fast players Ashmatullah Omarzai (5-58) and Ibrahim Zadran space, which hit a wonderful 177 balls to set up a new champions trophy and record of Afghanistan ODI.
Ibrahim’s knock saved his side from 37-3 after a devastating explosion of an opening by Jofra Archer (3-64), with a Bowling attack of England, just as in their first loss against Australia, fighting for as much as possible from the early ones and contain Afghanistan as the beginnings progressed.
Mark Wood injured his knee and appeared to follow Brydon Carse on an early flight at home, while Liam Livingstone also left the field late on occasion, but returned to get a couple of victories and fall.
England’s clash with Afghanistan had been marked on the calendar for some time, with a possible boycott by Jos Buttler debated in response to the Taliban rule in the country, but once it went ahead, the indispensable nature of the match only for both the parties added to the spectacle.
Despite having won Toss, Afghanistan fought with the stick early, Archer claiming his 50th victory of ODI when Bowling Rahmanullah Gurbaz (6) outside an inner end, before adding Sedicular Atal (4) and Rahmat Shah ( 4) on an impressive opening spell. .
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Jafra Archer claimed three early victories against Afghanistan including his 50th victory of ODI.
On the other hand, however, Wood (0-50) went down to his fourth, and though he returned to the bowl four further after leaving the field and received a treatment, he seemed limited and troubled throughout.
This left an expansive Bowling attack by adding an additional work load again to the similarities of livingstone (2-28) and root (0-47), while overton (1-72) -In side instead of Carse-u It was expensive, as well as Archer as Afghan’s progress progressed.
Ibrahim decided in 103 for the fourth victory with Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi (40), while Ashmatullah (41 off 31) and Mohammad Nabi (40 off 24) came out with vital contributions.
Ibrahim passed in his sixth century ODI in the 37th births, before carnage was provided, future Wood supervisions cost 18, before 113 were destroyed by the last 10 -an arrow for Going for 20 and a root effort for 23 as England began to split into the field.
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A revival Afghanistan scored 23 runs from a root of Joe in the ICC champions trophy.
Afghanistan crashed beyond 300, Ibrahim breaking the score of the previous record of the Ben Docket Champions Trophy of 165 It
Their champions trophy hopes to seem even more ardent when it was quickly reduced to 30-2 within the seven supervision of their pursuit.
Phil Salt’s attitude was again very short, clean clean for 12 of asthmah, while Jamie Smith (9) was too eager to get the aggressive option, disappearing in the first ball of Nabi when he carved a thick advantage at the backward point.
The Ducket and Root Pairift were set for the reconstruction of cases, but after taking advantage of a great blow to 30 by Hashmullah – a site located in the middle -off – duckett (38) was launched lbw in Rashid Khan (1-66) after a review of DRS used wisely.
Harry Brook bad outside Nik (25) struck some encouraging boundaries before undergoing an ugly caught and ugly departure from Nabi (2-57), shattering the simplest.
Skiper under -Fire Buttler seemed to carry a heavy burden on his shoulders when he scratched his way into 11 of his first 23 shipments – lucky to survive a super narrow lbw cry against Nabi in ‘Umpire call’ When at nine – before a first six from the births it appeared to free it.
Root passed smoothly to a fifty directed to the other end, the pair by setting 83 for the fifth victory to seem to have England in climbing 112 needed for 14 overs.
Buttler (38) and Livingstone (10) then set out in a quick row in another turn, and though Root passed to a wonderful 17th 17th, his wicker -removing the Asthmatullah after – It was always possible to prove crucial, and so it was proven.
What else is there?
We enter the last group of matches in the group phase, starting with group a dead rubber among eliminated already Pakistan AND Banglade in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
In group B, Afghanistan then return to action in Lahore on Friday, in front of AustraliaWHEREAS England Rundi in their tour against semifinal tracking South Africa in Karachi on Saturday.
INDIA AND New Zealand Then fight it for first place in Group A in Dubai on Sunday – all Live Games at Sky Sports Cricket from 8.30am, ahead of the game starting at 9am in the UK.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 – Results and matches
Group a
Group b
semis
- March 4: Semifinals – A1 V B2 (Dubai)
- March 5: Semifinals 2 – a2 v b1 (lahore)
Final
- March 9: Final (Lahore or Dubai)
Look at any match from the Champions Champions 2025 ICC trophy, up and including the final on March 9, directly on Sky Sports, or transmission now.
