England easily defeated Pakistan at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Despite the defeat against the former world champions, the national team managed to save the fifth position.
Kolkata: Pakistan's journey in the World Cup ended in defeat, England easily defeated Pakistan at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Pakistan team managed to get only 4 victories out of 9 during the current World Cup. However, despite the defeat against England in Kolkata, the Pakistani team managed to save the fifth position in the World Cup, Pakistan needed at least 188 runs to save the fifth position.
Only Agha Salman from Pakistan stood out by scoring a half-century, he played an innings of 51 runs, while David Willey, who played the last one-day match of his career for England, stood out by taking 3 wickets. In pursuit of the target, Pakistan's batting line collapsed on 244 runs.
The national team was officially out of the World Cup 2023 at the start of its innings.
In the 44th match of the World Cup, England gave Pakistan a target of 338 runs to win, which Pakistan had to achieve in 6.2 overs if they were to reach the semi-finals. In the match played at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, England's openers gave the team an aggressive start of 82 runs, but David Mullan and Jonny Bairstow were dismissed for 59 runs, Ben Stokes and Joe Root made 132 runs for the third wicket partnership. Formed a partnership.
Ben Stokes scored 84 runs with the help of 11 fours and 2 sixes while middle order batsman Joe Root got out after playing an innings of 60 runs. Harry Brooke scored 30 runs and Jos Buttler scored 27 runs, Moeen Ali scored 8 runs. On behalf of Pakistan, Haris Rauf got 3 wickets, Mohammad Wasim got 3 wickets, Shaheen Afridi got 2 wickets and Iftikhar Ahmed got one wicket. The English team scored 337 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted 50 overs.
Earlier, England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and decided to bat first. They would have won the toss and batted first so that they could make history by improving the net rate, but they will try to win the match.
Babar Azam said that a change has been made in the team that Shadab Khan has been made a part of the playing XI in place of Hasan Ali. Pakistan's squad consisted of captain Babar Azam, Abdullah Shafiq, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Agha Salman, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Haris Rauf, while England's squad included captain Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, David Mullan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Mark Wood, David Willey, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid were included.
Babar Azam said that a change has been made in the team that Shadab Khan has been made a part of the playing XI in place of Hasan Ali. Pakistan's squad consisted of captain Babar Azam, Abdullah Shafiq, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Agha Salman, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Haris Rauf, while England's squad included captain Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, David Mullan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Mark Wood, David Willey, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid were included.