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Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi has expressed his delight with the way his side successfully chased down 283 runs in a stunning upset against Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 football
Afghanistan on Monday clinched their second win in the 2023 World Cup by comfortably beating Pakistan by eight wickets at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium football
It marked Afghanistan’s first-ever One-Day International (ODI) victory against their neighbours football
Overjoyed Afghanistan skipper Shahidi, who scored the winning run, said the victory that ended their seven-match losing streak to Pakistan “tastes sweet” football
Veteran all-rounder Mohammad Nabi said the win was bigger than the one against England earlier in the tournament football
RecommendedAustralia vs Netherlands LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ODI World CupDavid Warner and Mitchell Marsh tons guide Australia to World Cup win over PakistanJoe Root acknowledges growing uncertainty surrounding future of ODI cricket“This win tastes sweet football
The way we chased was very professional football
Looking forward to the other games football
The way we chased today, we’ll do it again,” Shahidi said at the post-match presentation on Monday football
“The quality cricket that we have been playing from the last couple of years, the belief was there when we were playing the Asia Cup also football
”“At the start of the tournament, I said that we want to make this tournament historic for our country’s people football
First was England, and today Pakistan; looking forward to the other games football
We’ll try our best to play positive cricket and do a lot for our country in this World Cup football
”Afghanistan produced an all-round effort against Pakistan, who fell short in their bowling and fielding, according to their captain Babar Azam football
The spin team of Afghanistan, as anticipated, were excellent on the Chennai track, with only Mujeeb Ur Rahman finishing with an economy of over six football
The rest of the spinners – Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed and Nabi – leaked just three or four runs an over in their respective 10-over spells football
“The spin bowling department did very well football
We gave Noor a chance and trusted in him and he showed his talent football
The way Gurbaz and Ibrahim started the innings, gave that momentum and confidence football
The game was in our hands from the beginning till the end football
The last partnership that me and Rahmat played was also good,” said the Afghan skipper football
Nabi, meanwhile, was thrilled to finally get a victory over Pakistan in the 50-over format football
“It’s a big moment for the whole team, but also whole [of] Afghanistan as well football
We have been waiting for the last 10-12 years football
We have played around eight games against Pakistan, and we won one game in a big event,” said Nabi in a post-match interview football
“It’s a big achievement for the guys football
For the last three months, we’ve been working very hard football
We played a series against Pakistan, then the Asia Cup, and then came here to the World Cup football
It’s a lovely moment today football
”Afghanistan jumped to sixth place in the Cricket World Cup 2023 points table, while Pakistan remained in the fifth spot football
Pakistan’s team has four points from five games with a net run rate of -0 football
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Their road to the semi-final looks tough now as their remaining group games are against South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand and England football
South Africa and New Zealand are in top form while England are the defending champions football
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“We are the bomb squad and we knew we had to play a massive role football
” If South Africa’s narrow win over England in the Rugby World Cup semi-final could be summed up in one sentence, then this proclamation from Vincent Koch after the game would probably be it football
When Koch emerged from the replacements on 55 minutes to take the place of starting tighthead prop Frans Malherbe, Owen Farrell had just slotted a drop goal from downtown Paris to give England a 15-6 lead football
Nine points may not seem a lot but, with the final quarter of the match beckoning and the rain and wind increasing at the Stade de France, it was a comparatively huge deficit football
Throughout the first few minutes of the second half, the Springboks had more or less emptied their bench as Ox Nche, RG Snyman, Kwagga Smith, Deon Fourie, Faf de Klerk and Willie Le Roux all entered the fray to go alongside the controversial 30th-minute substitution of starting fly half Manie Libbok for Handre Pollard football
With their World Cup title defence hanging by a thread, South Africa trusted their bench and got their reward football
Koch and Nche splintered the previously effective English scrum, Snyman burrowed his way across the line for the game’s only try and Pollard nervelessly converted tricky kicks to complete the hardest-fought of turnarounds – 10 unanswered points, a 16-15 win and a date with the All Blacks in another World Cup final next Saturday football
Of the various phrases rugby has adopted over the years to describe those players in the matchday squad but not in the starting line-up – from the traditional “replacements” and the football football-ised “substitutes” through to the Eddie Jones-preferred ‘finishers’, the slightly patronising “impact players” and the frankly ludicrous “game-changers” adopted by Harlequins during the Paul Gustard era – none has captured the imagination quite like South Africa’s “bomb squad” football
It doesn’t matter if you think it’s a slightly self-serving and faintly ridiculous term, the players fully buy into the ethos of what it stands for football
The intensity and physicality that generation after generation of Springbok has prided themselves on is summed up by this two-word mantra football
“Each person knows exactly his role in the team, whether you’re starting or in the bomb squad,” explained Koch football
“When we created the bomb squad, we knew exactly what our job is football
The starters start the whole process and it’s for us to come and finish it football
“All the players on the bomb squad are very excited to make a massive difference in the game football
”Vincent Koch celebrated RG Snyman’s try as the bomb squad thrived (AFP via Getty Images)And against England, when the chips were down, they realised they needed to step up more than ever football
“The bomb squad always stands for energy,” added Koch football
“We needed to create a nice vibe football
Putting the replacements on a bit earlier helped the boys to start to bring that energy and lift up the spirit and bring a massive work-rate football
”Where South Africa’s replacements thrived, perhaps England’s faltered just a touch football
The English gameplan, devised by Steve Borthwick and perfectly executed by the players for the windy and rainy Parisian conditions, relied upon relentless kicking, winning the subsequent aerial battle, slowing the game down and dominating the set-piece football
Maybe then, they could escape with a win against an objectively superior team football
They kicked 93 per cent of possession away (the highest percentage of the tournament), had an average ruck speed of 6 football
73s (the slowest of the tournament) and had zero linebreaks (the only team to do so in a game at this tournament) football
They disrupted South African lineouts, turned over multiple mauls and Borthwick’s decision to play his two strongest scrummaging props – Dan Cole and Joe Marler – from the start earned them scrum parity and redemption from the disaster in that facet during the 2019 World Cup final football
Ox Nche was immense from the bench against the Springboks (EPA)This is a Springboks side that pride themselves on their dominance up front, as shown by opting for a scrum after calling a mark in their own 22 during the quarter-final victory over France football
Of course, they won a penalty from it football
Yet England were holding their own during those engagements, even thriving, and most importantly winning on the scoreboard football
But the innate problem with starting your best scrummagers came to fruition in the second half football
Replacement props Ellis Genge and Kyle Sinckler are far more dynamic around the park and more destructive carriers than their veteran counterparts but, with England showing no desire to run any plays more than two metres either side of the previous breakdown, those skills were negated once they came on for Marler and Cole football
Instead, their inferior scrummaging was brutally exposed by a fired-up Koch and Nche, who turned parity into Springbok dominance football
They won two scrums against the head, including a vital one at 15-6 down on their own line, and engineered multiple penalties on their own feed, including the most vital of all – on halfway, with 77 minutes on the clock and England leading 15-13 football
Pollard banged over the long kick and the rest was history football
Handre Pollard broke English hearts with his late penalty (PA Wire)Nche was coy when asked in the mixed zone after the game what had made the difference at scrum-time in the final quarter and how he bested his opposite number, Sinckler football
“That is the dark arts,” he smiled football
“It is hard to explain to you football
We had a plan for that football
We knew what we were trying to achieve football
“They have had a great scrum for the competition and a great hit football
Our focus was surviving that and applying pressure football
Our mentality for every scrum is to get a penalty if we can football
If they do survive, we play out the back and get into our shape football
”The “dark arts” ultimately won the day, South Africa survived a second straight one-point knockout match and must now plan how to overcome the All Blacks in a battle to be the first side to win four men’s Rugby World Cups football
Luckily, they have a not-so-secret weapon football
“We are the bomb squad football
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