The 1992 World Cup winners Pakistan will lock horns with a gritty Afghanistan facet at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in the continuing ODI World Cup on Monday, October 23. While Pakistan are nonetheless in the highest 5 groups on the factors desk, a loss at the palms of New Zealand has pushed Afghanistan to the underside of the factors desk with three losses and a solitary win after 4 video games.
Pakistan will have to show issues round in their favour rapidly as they’re crestfallen after two consecutive losses at the palms of arch-rivals India and Australia. They had been outplayed by India at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad however put up a greater displaying in the sport towards the Aussies solely to undergo one other loss.
Their batters will have to play higher cricket and assault the Afghan spinners or else the sport would possibly swing in favour of the Hasmatullah Shahidi-led facet. On the opposite hand, Afghanistan had been extraordinarily sloppy in their earlier match towards the Blackcaps and dropped manner too many catches and it got here again to harm them at the top.
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Pitch Report
This will be the fourth contest at the venue in the continuing event and spinners have accomplished pretty nicely to date. The pitch at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai fits spin bowling and the identical is perhaps on show in the sport between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday.
MA Chidambaram Stadium Records and Stats
Total ODI Matches: 37
Matches gained batting first: 18
Matches gained bowling first: 18
Average first innings rating: 226
Average second innings rating: 204
Highest whole scored: 337/7 by Asia XI vs Africa XI
Highest rating chased: 291/2 by West Indies vs India
Lowest whole recorded: 69 all out by Kenya vs New Zealand
Lowest whole defended: 171 all out by England vs South Africa
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