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Afghanistan turn to careful cricket for unprecedented success

From zero wins in 2019 to within sniffing distance of the top four in 2023 - Afghanistan have turned their World Cup record on its head, with some simple but structured batting plans at the heart of it all

30-Oct-2023•Firdose Moonda

Farooqi hits his straps to help keep Sri Lanka under wraps

Returning seamer shines in Pune as Afghanistan find another way to win

30-Oct-2023•Hemant Brar

How Bangladesh became a shadow of themselves at the World Cup

A lot of it has to do with their batters being out of form, but there have been other things bubbling away as well

30-Oct-2023•Mohammad Isam

Pakistan are low on power and behind the times

Whether it's an issue of skill or intent, Pakistan have a way to go before they match the best batting teams in ODIs

30-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga

Stats: Runs galore, Australia's record victory, and Bas de Leede's unwanted feat

Quinton de Kock and Glenn Maxwell smash at will, as 350-plus totals pile up only 29 matches into this World Cup

30-Oct-2023•Sampath Bandarupalli

Why middling scores make for the best kind of ODI

Runfests usually kill games as contests. But team scores a little below 300? Now we're talking

30-Oct-2023•Sambit Bal

Thanks for coming (opponents of India), the pleasure was all ours

Another Indian city, another capacity crowd. Another team dispatched to gleeful roars

29-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Shami to Stokes: Ten balls from hell

The contest produced nine dots and a wicket seemingly born of desperation. Was it a bad shot, though?

29-Oct-2023•Matt Roller

Stats - England's worst ODI World Cup campaign yet

Shami's record four-for, Rohit's record-equalling fifty, and other important numbers from the India vs England match in Lucknow

29-Oct-2023•Sampath Bandarupalli

Ibrahim Zadran, the opener who allows Afghanistan's batters to open up

His strong presence at the top has allowed his opening partner Rahmanullah Gurbaz to attack, and given the middle order a platform

29-Oct-2023•Firdose Moonda

Trials, treks and front-row seats to South Africa's triumphs

Our diarist survives bumpy rides, cancelled flights and missing TV channels in the course of covering the World Cup

29-Oct-2023•Mark Nicholas

Netherlands comb over batting gaps and end up looking slick

Evolution of nous and skill aligns with usual pluck as orange becomes the new green in Kolkata

28-Oct-2023•Vithushan Ehantharajah

Head's successful comeback vindicates Australia's gamble

His blazing hundred, and what followed after he fell, showed his value in the side

28-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga

Glenn Phillips: the part-timer who doesn't do part time

In the highest-scoring match in ODI World Cup history, Glenn Phillips returned incredible figures of 3 for 37

28-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga

Life comes full circle for Kuldeep against England

At the 2019 World Cup, Kuldeep was smashed by the same opposition, which started a downward spiral for him

28-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Stats - The highest aggregate in a World Cup match

Australia become the first team to score 350-plus in three successive ODIs

28-Oct-2023•Sampath Bandarupalli

Jansen defies conditions to emerge as South Africa's leader of the pack

He's shown potency with the new ball, but even when it's not swinging around, there are other skills up his sleeves

28-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

Ghosts of Chepauk's past don't spook South Africa

Team tunes out echoes of 1975, 1999 and 2011 to come out clutch in a brand-new classic

28-Oct-2023•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Virat Kohli is not Tendulkar, he's an all-too-human hero of a different sort

From a brash young upstart he has turned into a legend of the game - in a manner decidedly different from the man whose heir he is

28-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Bangladesh vs Netherlands: A forgotten cricket rivalry

It didn't go on for too long, but had at least one intriguing episode, in Kuala Lumpur back in 1997. Some of the key protagonists recall that game

27-Oct-2023•Mohammad Isam

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