Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi celebrates after profitable the match in opposition to Pakistan throughout ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
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It might have defeated arch-rival Pakistan for the first time in an ODI final week. It might have already carried out at its greatest in a World Cup version. Still, Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi reiterated that they’re eyeing the massive prize however not pondering too far forward.
“Our aim and goal is to go to the next round. That’s what we are thinking about. But right now, we are not thinking how to go to the semifinal,” Shahidi mentioned right here on Sunday, forward of its key conflict in opposition to Sri Lanka.
“We think match by match and our mindset is busy in tomorrow’s Sri Lanka game right now. Let’s see what happens tomorrow. Then we will think about other games and moving forward to the semifinal.”
While Shahidi didn’t reveal his bowling mixture, he admitted that the proven fact that Afghanistan and Sri Lanka have performed one another so usually over the final 12 months throughout codecs will make it a conflict of the equals.
“It will be a tough challenge for both the teams. First of all, we [have] played a lot of cricket together from last one year and we know each other very well. And we both have won our last games coming into this game,” he mentioned. “We have more confidence from that game, so we will take that with us to the ground and we will try to go with a positive intent and play good cricket.”
