The Men’s 2023 ODI World Cup is underway in India and runs from October 5 till November 19. Each morning we’ll spherical up the newest motion and information from the occasion and convey you the insights from our reporters on the bottom.

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Top Story: Edwards, van der Merwe assist Netherlands script well-known win towards South Africa

Netherlands 245 for 8 (Edwards 78*, van der Merwe 29, Jansen 2-27) beat South Africa 207 (Miller 43, van Beek 3-60, van der Merwe 2-34, de Leede 2-36, van Meekeren 2-40) by 38 runs 43 overs a aspect

Scott Edwards‘ rousing unbeaten half-century gave his bowlers perception and so they shot for the celebrities, demolishing South Africa’s storied batting line-up at hand Netherlands a historic World Cup victory.

South Africa, having gained each their video games on the event previous to this by greater than 100 runs, after posting totals of 428 and 311, had insisted within the lead-up that they’d moved on from a group-stage defeat to Netherlands which ended their T20 World Cup marketing campaign final 12 months. Netherlands, in the meantime, had proven fleeting glances of what they is perhaps able to right here with heavy but spirited defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand. This match adopted the script, till Edwards and Roelof van der Merwe – who shone with bat and ball – ripped it as much as safe a 38-run win, Netherlands’ first towards South Africa in ODIs.

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Match evaluation: Edwards leads from entrance as Netherlands nail their huge second

It was Scott Edwards who took them to “believing” and facilitated “knowing” from a hopeless place. South Africa gained the toss, opted to bowl first, and had been coasting to victory as early because the twenty first over when Netherlands’ captain arrived on the crease with the scoreboard studying 82 for five. He completed unbeaten on 78, lifting his costs to a rating of 245 for 8 with important help from Roelof van der Merwe and Aryan Dutt. He then nailed each tactical name behind the stumps to cap off a exceptional evening in Dharamsala.

Edwards’ team-mates will let you know he leads from the entrance. “One of those guys you just want to follow,” is how van Beek put it earlier this month. Maybe it shouldn’t be a shock somebody who flirted with {an electrical} apprenticeship is a helpful conductor.

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Must Watch: How do South Africa transfer on from this loss?

News headlines

• The Pakistan cricket staff has been struck by a viral infection of their World Cup camp in India, with a number of gamers affected by flu and excessive fever. Most are understood to be on the mend, however a number of didn’t attend Tuesday’s optionally available coaching session. Abdullah Shafique is presently in quarantine in his room with flu and fever, whereas Shaheen Shah Afridi, Saud Shakeel and Zaman Khan have additionally been affected.
• Ben Stokes has inspired his England team-mates to play extra aggressively after their 69-run defeat to Afghanistan in Delhi on Sunday evening, and looks set to make his first appearance of the tournament towards South Africa in Mumbai this weekend.
• The PCB has lodged an official complaint with the ICC in regards to the crowd behaviour directed in direction of the Pakistan gamers of their sport towards India at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium over the weekend.

Match preview

Afghanistan vs New Zealand, Chennai (2pm IST; 8.30am GMT; 7.30pm AEST)

The 2019 World Cup champions have been taken down. Time for the runners-up subsequent?

Afghanistan gamers have repeatedly referred to as India their second residence. At varied factors, they’ve had their base arrange at Indian venues like Dehradun, Lucknow and Greater Noida, the place they performed their “home games”. IPL regulars Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi have at all times been a crowd favorite, whereas Naveen-ul-Haq retains the excitement going.

Which is why there was real pleasure among the many Delhi crowd when Afghanistan served defending champions England a 69-run thrashing on Sunday. It was solely Afghanistan’s second-ever win in an ODI World Cup sport in 18 makes an attempt and their first since 2015.

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Team information

Afghanistan (possible): 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), 5 Azmatullah Omarzai, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Ikram Alikhil (wk), 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi

New Zealand (possible): 1 Devon Conway, 2 Will Young, 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Tom Latham (capt, wk), 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Mark Chapman, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Mark Henry, 10 Lockie Ferguson, 11 Trent Boult

Analysis: Rohit Sharma’s daring new batting template has modified his ODI sport – and India’s

Nobody mourns the discount within the quantity of ODI cricket between the final World Cup and this one. You cannot blame them. Still, it’s a disgrace that as a result of so little 50-over cricket is performed, and even much less by one of the best gamers, we’d typically fail to see transformative items of labor. Rohit Sharma‘s transformation since he turned the full-time India ODI captain may simply be a type of.

In a World Cup, although, everybody notices. After the duck within the first match in tough circumstances towards Australia, Rohit has virtually ended two matches inside the primary powerplay. He scored 76 off 43 within the first ten overs towards Afghanistan, and 45 off 30 towards Pakistan. As with all the pieces he does, this was not random. Not a case of feeling good about it on the day and swinging for the hills.

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