Risa van Der Dusen and Eden Makram
The first match of Group-B at the Champions Trophy 2025 was played between South Africa and Afghanistan team at the National Stadium in Karachi on 21 February. In this match, the African team dominated the African team, in which they batted first and scored 315 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 50 overs, after that their bowlers for 208 runs for 208 runs. With the cover, he won the match by 107 runs. In this match, South Africa’s team also did a feat that was only able to do the Indian team in the history of the Champions Trophy earlier.
Four batsmen of African team played innings of 50 or more runs
In the match against Afghanistan, South Africa team captain Temba Bavuma decided to bat first after winning the toss, which his batsmen also proved to be completely correct. While Ryan Retion scored 103 runs in the African team innings, besides captain Bavuma scored 58, Reeja Van Dar Dusen 52 while Edan Makram scored 50 runs. In this way, there were four batsmen who scored 50 or more runs in the African team’s innings. Earlier in the history of the Champions Trophy, only the Indian team was able to do this feat when they played against Pakistan in 2017 at the grounds of Birmingham.
On behalf of Team India, four players scored 50 or more runs in this match against Pakistan. In this, Rohit Sharma saw 91, Shikhar Dhawan 68, Virat Kohli 81 and Yuvraj Singh’s innings was seen with 53 runs. Now the South African team has become the second team to do this feat.
Afghanistan team gets their fourth biggest defeat of ICC ODI tournament
The Afghanistan team has seen a great performance in the limited overs format in the last few years in world cricket, but out of this, they have shown this amazing in most T20 formats. In the ICC ODI tournament, he has not been able to perform that level with continuity so far. The 107 -run defeat in the match against South Africa is the fourth biggest defeat of the Afghanistan team by a margin of runs in the ICC ODI tournament. At the same time, now it has become very difficult for him to reach the semi -finals because his net runrate is of -2.140 after this defeat, which is going to be very difficult for him to improve. Now Afghanistan is to play their next match against England on 26 February.
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