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Australia vs Afghanistan Scorecard, Match 4, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
Result · Jun 01 2019, Sat - 06:00 PM (IST)
Match 4, - The Bristol County Ground, Bristol, England
AFGHANISTAN207
AUSTRALIA209/3
Australia won by 7 wickets
CRR:6
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | ODI World Cup |
| Date: | Jun 01 2019, Sat - 06:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | England |
| City: | Bristol |
| Venue: | The Bristol County Ground |
| Toss: | Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib (c), Rashid Khan, Dawlat Zadran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Hamid Hassan, Najibullah Zadran |
| Australia Playing XI: | Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wk), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa |
- Australia has played two ODIs against Afghanistan, winning both including a 275-run victory at the 2015 World Cup that is Australia's highest winning margin by runs in ODIs.
- Australia will appear at the Bristol County Ground in an ODI for just the third time, having picked up a win and a loss in their previous two games at the venue against England.
- Australia have won their last eight ODIs on the bounce heading into this fixture; the last time they won more in succession was a nine-game streak from March to September in 2015, which began with a 275-run win over Afghanistan.
- Australia have won 13 of their last 17 ODIs played in England and Wales against teams other than England (T1, L3); though, their last such fixture was a 20-run defeat to Sri Lanka in June 2013.
- Afghanistan have won three of their last five ODIs (L2) and will be looking to secure back-to-back wins in the format for the first time since winning three on the bounce between August and September 2018.
- Afghanistan have won seven of their last 11 ODIs played in Europe; their last four such victories have all come after having lost the toss.
- Steve Smith (Australia) boasts a batting average of 56.9 at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, the third-highest of any Australian to have played at least 10 innings; he's scored one century and four half-centuries in his last five World Cup innings.
- Rashid Khan has taken four five-wicket hauls in ODIs for Afghanistan, as many as every other Afghanistan player combined.
- David Warner (14) and Aaron Finch (13) have hit the fourth and fifth-most ODI centuries respectively of any Australian player; only Ricky Ponting (29), Mark Waugh (18) and Adam Gilchrist (16) have hit more.
- Mohammad Shahzad comes into this game on the back of a century in his last ODI outing, the sixth of his career; he's managed to back up only one of his previous five ODI centuries with a score of 50+ in his next appearance however.