ODI World Cup recap: New Zealand continues their perfect start, England face a tough early game - Gudstory

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The 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup will be held in India and will be held from October 5 to November 19. Each morning, we’ll gather the latest spoilers and news from the event and bring you insights from our reporters on the ground.

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Main story: Five-star Santner and Team New Zealand make it two-on-two

New Zealand’s innings began with three wickets in a row but ended with them hitting 50 off the last three overs, thanks to Tom Latham, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry, taking them to 322. Holland started the chase slowly and never changed gears as they creased. For 223 points, New Zealand strengthened its position at the top of the points table after achieving second and second place.

Player of the Match Santner, who scored an unbeaten 36 off 17 balls with the bat, then took 5 for 59 with the ball, and in the process became the first New Zealand player to take five scores in a men’s ODI. world Cup. He has consistently varied his pace on a spin-friendly pitch – exactly the trait that makes him a threat – with the highlight of each of his wickets being that of Scott Edwards.

Match analysis: New Zealand’s problems are many

New Zealand entered the tournament with just 12 players from their 15-man squad available for the first match, with Kane Williamson and Tim Southee recovering from serious injuries while Lockie Ferguson suffers from back stiffness. By the time they play their next match, on Friday, they should have all 15 players available, and the performance against the Netherlands could help them decide who they choose.

Let’s start with the obvious: when captain Williamson is ready to play competitive cricket, he will go straight back to number three, which usually leaves room for just two of Devon Conway, Will Young and Rashin Ravindra. All three have put up good numbers in this tournament, with Young becoming the latest to do so. He came back from his second-ball duck against England to score his sixth half-century of the year and third in six innings, providing a strong claim to continue in his opening role.

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Bangladesh vs England, Dharamsala (10.30am AEDT; 6.00am GMT; 4.00pm AEST)

Six games to go, 42 to come… It is too early to make any general judgments about the fate of the 2023 World Cup. However, as England’s cricketers head to the tournament’s highest peak in Dharamsala, they do so with clear reason to doubt how far they are prepared to climb. The heights they occupied on their own land four years ago.

That doesn’t mean Jos Buttler’s men can’t bounce back from that unimaginably crushing defeat to New Zealand in Ahmedabad. Resilience has been an underappreciated trait of the champion team they have built over the past eight years – and perhaps never was it better demonstrated than in their group stage escape in 2019.

Bangladesh (possible): 1 Tanzid Hasan, 2 Litton Das, 3 Najmul Hossain Shanto, 4 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 5 Towhid Hridoy, 6 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 7 Mehidy Hasan Miraz, 8 Mahmudullah/Mahedi Hasan, 9 Taskin Ahmed , 10 Shoriful Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman

England (Possible): 1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Daoud Malan, 3 Joe Root, 4 Harry Brook, 5 Jos Buttler (captain and week), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Sam Curran, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Reece Tubli.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, Hyderabad (2pm AEDT; 8.30pm GMT; 7.30pm AEST)

Both teams played one match in the current World Cup, shook hands and introduced themselves to this World Cup. Neither made the best first impression, but Pakistan have two points and a win at the top of the table, while Sri Lanka remain behind in the points table. The extenuating circumstances, of course, are that Pakistan played the Netherlands and still looked shaky during some passages of play, while Sri Lanka faced a juggernaut from South Africa, and for a while gave their best in a frantic, if ultimately unsuccessful, match. , Chasing.

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Pakistan (possible) 1 Abdullah Shafique, 2 Imam-ul-Haq, 3 Babar Azam (capt), 4 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 5 Saud Shakeel, 6 Iftikhar Ahmed, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Mohammad Nawaz, 9 Hasan Ali, 10 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 11 Haris Rauf

Sri Lanka (Possible) 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Kusal Pereira, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Sadira Samarawickrama, 5 Sharith Asalanka, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva, 7 Dasun Shanaka (captain), 8 Dhunith Willaj, 9 Mahesh Thekshana, 10 Mathisha Pathirana, 11 Dilshan Madushanka

Feature: Bairstow, the ‘great servant’ of English cricket who always comes back with great force

Jonny Bairstow will win his 100th ODI for England when they take on Bangladesh in Dharamsala on Tuesday. It’s an accomplishment he said would make him “very proud” and a milestone in a journey he acknowledged hasn’t always been easy: “There have been some ups and downs, haven’t there?”

It was a walk of two halves like that. Bairstow found things difficult during his first six years as an ODI cricketer, spending three years out of the team after his first seven appearances and then working his way into the team more regularly, generally as batting cover for the first-choice team.

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