ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Special Series - Afghanistan 23 member team to Training

Afghanistan Cricket board has sent a 23 member team to South Africa for a training. This team is going to play 6 training matches during the training time at South Africa.

Below is the squad announced.

Gulbadin Naib (c)

Rashid Khan (vc)

Mohammad Shahzad

Noor Ali Zadran

Hazratullah Zazai

Usman Ghani

Asghar Afghan

Hashmatullah Shahidi

Rahmat Shah

Mohammad Nabi

Najib Zadran

Darwish Rasooli

Mujeeb ur Rahman

Shafiqullah Shafaq

Dawlat Zadran

Aftab Alam

Shapoor Zadran

Hamid Hassan

Karim Janat

Qais Ahmad

Sharafuddin Ashraf

Sayed Shirzad

Samiullah Shinwari

Happy to see Rashid Khan as Vice Captain and I hope Rashid will play well in entire World cup series.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Special Series - Vote for your greatest moments in previous world cup

Hey dude which your favourite greatest moments in World cup history. For me I may say Tendulkar tames Pakistan in 2003 world cup. Yuvi's performance in 2011 world cup and so on. Its would fun filled to view those favorite moments once again and enjoy. ICC is conducting a voting option for the favourite greatest moments in world cup history. You have to view the video and vote for your favourite. This was started since Feb 28. So come lets go to the below link and vote for our favoutire greatest moments in world cup history.

https://www.cricketworldcup.com/greatest-moments

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Special Series - Largest ODI Victories in England Cricket grounds

This posts describes more about the Largest ODI victories in England venues by team in last 2 years. This victories classified into 2 types.
1. Based on Runs
2. Based on Wickets.

Also with that we also included the player of those matches.


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By Runs
Team 1	Team 2	Target	Winner	Margin	Ground	Date	Player of the Match
England	Australia	482	England	242 runs	Nottingham	19-Jun-18	Alex Hales
Pakistan	India	339	Pakistan	180 runs	The Oval	18-Jun-17	Fakhar Zaman
India	Pakistan	289	India	124 runs	Birmingham	4-Jun-17	Yuvraj Singh
England	West Indies	370	England	124 runs	Bristol	24-Sep-17	Moeen Ali
By Wickets
Team 1	Team 2	Target	Winner	Margin	Ground	Date	Player of the Match	Balls Rem	Overs
India	Bangladesh	265	India	9 wickets	Birmingham	15-Jun-17	Rohit Sharma	59	40.1
England	West Indies	289	England	9 wickets	Southampton	29-Sep-17	Jonny Bairstow	72	38

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Special Series - Qualifier Match Schedules/Results

Qualifier matches for ICC Cricket world cup 2019 was held at Zimbabwe during Mar 2018. Lets see the ODI match results below.

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Team 1	Team 2	Winner	Margin	Venue	Match Date
Afghanistan	Scotland	Scotland	7 wickets	Bulawayo	4-Mar-18
P.N.G.	U.A.E.	U.A.E.	56 runs	Harare	4-Mar-18
Hong Kong	Scotland	Scotland	4 wickets	Bulawayo	6-Mar-18
Ireland	P.N.G.	Ireland	4 wickets	Harare	6-Mar-18
U.A.E.	West Indies	West Indies	60 runs	Harare	6-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	Afghanistan	Zimbabwe	2 runs	Bulawayo	6-Mar-18
Afghanistan	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	30 runs	Bulawayo	8-Mar-18
P.N.G.	West Indies	West Indies	6 wickets	Harare	8-Mar-18
Ireland	West Indies	West Indies	52 runs	Harare	10-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	Hong Kong	Zimbabwe	89 runs	Bulawayo	10-Mar-18
Ireland	U.A.E.	Ireland	226 runs	Harare	12-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	Scotland	tied		Bulawayo	12-Mar-18
Afghanistan	West Indies	Afghanistan	3 wickets	Harare	15-Mar-18
Scotland	U.A.E.	Scotland	73 runs	Bulawayo	15-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	Ireland	Zimbabwe	107 runs	Harare	16-Mar-18
Hong Kong	P.N.G.	P.N.G.	58 runs	Harare	17-Mar-18
Ireland	Scotland	Ireland	25 runs	Harare	18-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	West Indies	West Indies	4 wickets	Harare	19-Mar-18
Afghanistan	U.A.E.	Afghanistan	5 wickets	Harare	20-Mar-18
Scotland	West Indies	West Indies	5 runs	Harare	21-Mar-18
Zimbabwe	U.A.E.	U.A.E.	3 runs	Harare	22-Mar-18
Afghanistan	Ireland	Afghanistan	5 wickets	Harare	23-Mar-18
Afghanistan	West Indies	Afghanistan	7 wickets	Harare	25-Mar-18

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - Special Series - ODI Rankings qualified teams, Recent victories in England pitches

ODI rankings could be one of the consideration while predicting how a team could perform in world cups. Of course there are other features which determine the victory but still the very first feature to consider is ODI rankings. Lets see the current ODI Rankings

Rank 1. England
Rank 2. India
Rank 3. Newzeland
Rank 4. South Africa
Rank 5. Pakistan
Rank 6. Australia
Rank 7. Bangladesh
Rank 8. Srilanka
Rank 9. West Indies
Rank 10. Afghanistan

Lets also see the winners in recent ODI series played in England grounds since 2017.

Ireland played 2 matches against England during May 2017 and England won those 2 matches.with great margin.

South Africa played a series of 3 ODIs against England during May 2017. This series was won by England as (2-1) (England 2, South Africa 1). South Africa couldn't win the first match, but they gave very tough fight on 2nd. But atlast England won by 2 runs (click here for scorecard).

ICC Champions Trophy was held at England during June 2017. Torphy was won by Pakistan.

West Indies had a tour to England of 5 ODI series during September 2017. England won in (4-0) and 1 match was abandoned due to rain. England swiped the series despite West Indies scored decent enough score.

Australia had a tour to England of 5 ODI series  during June 2018. England swiped the series.

India had a tour to England of 3 ODI series during July 2018. England won by (2-1) (England 2, India 1).