In the 36th match of the World Cup, Australia defeated the defending champions England by 33 runs and eliminated them from the semi-final race. Along with this, the England team failed to defend their title. Pakistan team will have to beat England in the next match to reach the semi-finals but also improve their run rate. However, the national team’s access to the semi-finals still depends on New Zealand, defeating New Zealand in a rain-affected match and maintaining the chances of reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup. After that, Pakistan has 8 points in 8 matches and New Zealand also has 8 points in 8 matches, but due to better run rate, New Zealand’s position is better than Pakistan. Along with New Zealand, Pakistan and Afghanistan are also the main contenders to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup.
In order to reach the semi-finals, the Pakistan team will not only have to defeat the defending champions England in the next match, but also improve their run rate. If the Sri Lankan team defeats New Zealand in the next match, then the Green Shirts will easily reach the semi-finals by defeating England. However, if the New Zealand team is successful against Sri Lanka, then not only the national team will have to beat England, but they will have to beat them by a big margin. In the current situation, Pakistan will need to win by a margin of at least 130 runs to reach the semi-finals and overtake New Zealand in run rate, while if New Zealand’s margin of victory is more than one run, Pakistan will need more. The match should be won by a big margin. However, there is also a national chance of rain in the match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand to be played in Bangalore on November 9 and being a day-night match, the match is likely to be heavily affected by rain. If the match is canceled due to rain, in such a case both Sri Lanka and New Zealand will get one point each, so New Zealand’s total points will be 9 and in such a case Pakistan team will beat England. will make it to the final four. On the other hand, the Afghanistan team is also the main contender for the semi-finals and it also has 8 points like Pakistan and New Zealand, but they have to play two more matches. Although these two matches of Afghanistan are against strong teams like Australia and South Africa who have made it to the semi-finals, but still if they win any of the matches, the situation of the points table will become more interesting. If the Afghanistan team wins either of their next two matches, their points will be 10, but due to the low run rate, Afghanistan will have to either win both the matches to reach the next stage or One match will have to be won by a big margin.
After having 10 points, Afghanistan can advance to the next stage if both Pakistan and New Zealand lose their next two matches, in which case both the teams will be out of the semi-final race and Afghanistan will be the first team. will reach the semi-final stage of the World Cup. England has been out of the semi-final race due to defeat by Australia. In this match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Australia gave England a target of 287 runs to win. Chasing the target, the England team was all out for 253 runs in the 49th over. England won the toss and invited Australia to bat first. The Australian team batted first and scored 286 runs in the last over. On behalf of Australia, Marence Labushin played an innings of 71 runs, Cameron Green scored 47 runs, Steve Smith scored 44 runs, Marcus Stoins scored 35 runs, while Adam Zampa scored 29 runs in the closing moments to bring the team’s score to 286. Chris Woakes took 4 wickets for England. Mark Wood and Adil Rashid took two wickets each while David Vale and Liam Livingston took one wicket each. The defending champions failed to chase down the target of 287 runs in the do-and-die match. And the entire team was reduced to 253 runs. For England, Ben Stokes was outstanding with 63 runs while David Mullan played an innings of 50 runs. Apart from them, Moeen Ali 42, Chris Woakes 32, Adil Rashid 20 and David Vale played an innings of 15 runs. This is England’s sixth defeat in a World Cup match. Along with this, the defending champion team failed to defend their title while being out of the World Cup semi-final race. Adam Zampa took 3 wickets for Kangaroos. Mitchell Starc, Hazlewood and Pete Cummins got two dismissals each while one player was dismissed by Marcus Stoins. Australia’s Adam Zampa was adjudged the man of the match for his all-round performance.
