Pakistan’s journey in the World Cup ended with defeat to England

Cricket The World Cup In the match to be played in Calcutta, India during 2023 England defeated Pakistan by 93 runs.

England scored 337 runs while playing first, in response Pakistan team could score 244 runs in 43.3 overs.

England won the toss and elected to bat first in the match played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Calcutta, West Bengal on Saturday.

In the initial overs, the English batsmen had little difficulty in understanding Shaheen Afridi’s swing, but after being set at the wicket, Jonny Bairstow and David Mullan quickly scored runs to take the score to 80 in the 13th over.

Here, Pakistan got their first success in the form of David Mullan, who was caught out by Mohammad Rizwan off the ball of Iftikhar Ahmed.

England’s second out was Jonny Bairstow who returned to the pavilion on 108.

After them, Ben Stokes and Joe Root put on a 132-run partnership with excellent batting and played their role in strengthening England’s grip on the match.

Joe Root scored 60 and Ben Stokes scored 84 runs. The English batsmen who came after them also continued to score runs at a rapid pace and set Pakistan a target of 338 runs despite falling wickets at intervals. England made this score at the loss of nine wickets.

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On behalf of Pakistan, Haris Rauf took three wickets by giving 64 runs, while Mohammad Wasim and Shaheen Afridi dismissed two players each.

When Pakistan’s innings started, what was feared happened. Abdullah Shafiq and Fakhar Zaman returned to the pavilion on zero and one runs.

Captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan showed some resistance but the Pakistani team kept losing wickets one after another while chasing a target like the mountain of England.

Agha Salman was the top scorer from Pakistan by scoring 51 runs.

The entire Pakistan team was bowled out for 244 runs in 43.3 overs.

Pakistan’s Mohammad Wasim and Haris Rauf scored 53 runs in the tenth wicket partnership to make the match a bit interesting, but due to the haste of the top batsmen, the result of the match was against Pakistan.

On behalf of England, David Willey took three wickets while Adil Rashid, Gus Atkinson and Moeen Ali took two wickets each. David Willey was adjudged the man of the match.