New Delhi: Today i.e. on Wednesday, October 18, there will be a match between New Zealand and Afghanistan in the ODI World Cup 2023. This interesting match will take place at 2 pm today at MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk), Chennai. Like always, today the toss of the match will take place half an hour earlier i.e. at 1:30 pm.
Injured Kane Williamson out
It is noteworthy that New Zealand’s captain Kane Williamson has fractured his thumb. In fact, New Zealand Cricket had confirmed this last Saturday, 14 October. Yes, Williamson was injured in the match against Bangladesh last Friday i.e. on 13 October. Due to which he retired hurt and returned to the pavilion on the score of 78 runs.
Now Tom Blundell has come as their cover. However, Williamson will remain with the team and is expected to return to action by next month. In his absence Tom Latham will captain the team.
Fourth match of both teams today
Let us tell you that this will be the fourth match for both the teams in the World Cup 2023. New Zealand has won all its three opening matches. He defeated England in the first match, Netherlands in the second and Bangladesh in the third. On the other hand, Afghanistan won only one match out of three and lost the remaining two. He had to face defeat in his first match against Bangladesh and in the second against India. But in the third match, there was a big upset by defeating the current champion England. Which no one had suspected.
head-to-head
Now talking about statistics, a total of 2 ODIs have been played between New Zealand and Afghanistan so far. New Zealand won both of these. Both the matches were played in the 2015 and 2019 World Cups only. Apart from this, no other ODI has been played between the two teams till now.
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what does the pitch say
If we look at Chepauk Stadium, the pitch here is helpful for spinners. A total of 25 One Day Internationals have been played in this stadium so far. Here the teams batting first have won 14 matches and the teams batting second innings have won 10 matches.
weather conditions
According to the information received, the temperature in Chennai today will be around 32 to 27 degrees Celsius. It will be sunny here today, but there are also chances of it being cloudy. There is a 2% chance of rain today.
This is the possible playing 11 of both the teams
New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain and wicketkeeper), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Tim Southee/Lockie Ferguson, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry and Trent Boult.
Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rehmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqui.