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England vs Afghanistan Scorecard, Match 8, ICC Champions Trophy 2025
Result · Feb 26 2025, Wed - 02:30 PM (IST)
AFGHANISTAN325/7
ENGLAND317
Afghanistan won by 8 runs
CRR:6.36
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | ICC Champions Trophy |
| Date: | Feb 26 2025, Wed - 02:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| City: | Lahore |
| Venue: | Gaddafi Stadium |
| Toss: | Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi |
| England Playing XI: | Ben Duckett, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (c), Liam Livingstone, Jamie Overton, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood |
- This will be the first meeting between Afghanistan and England at the ICC Champions Trophy; each of their previous three clashes in men’s ODIs have come at the ICC Cricket World Cup, with the Afghan Atalans winning the most recent of the three clashes (L2).
- England lost their opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 by a five-wicket margin (vs Australia), just the third time they lost their opening game of an edition in the competition (also 1998 and 2006); in fact, only once before have the Three Lions lost their first two games of an edition of the ICC Champions Trophy (2006).
- Afghanistan lost their first match at the ICC Champions Trophy by a 107-run margin (vs South Africa), after winning each of their three men’s ODIs prior to that; the last time the Afghan Atalans lost back-to-back matches in the format was a stretch of five games between November 2023 and February 2024.
- England have lost four of their last five men’s ODIs played in Pakistan (W1); in fact, five of their 13 losses in the format in this country have been at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, their highest loss tally at any venue in Pakistan.
- Afghanistan have logged a catch success rate of 71.6% in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the lowest of all full-member sides; in fact, only Sri Lanka (30) have dropped more catches in the format during this period than the Afghan Atalans (21).
- England batters have logged a collective strike rate of 101.6 in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the highest of all full-member sides; in fact, only New Zealand (76%) have a better good connection rate during this period than the Three Lions (73.9%).
- Afghanistan have scored a boundary once in every 10.9 deliveries in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, with only Ireland (12.1) among full-member sides doing so at a slower rate; however, they have struck 25+ boundaries in three of their last four completed games in the format, after doing so just once in their six such games prior.
- Rahmat Shah (3,959 runs) is 41 away from becoming the first batter to score 4,000 runs in men’s ODIs for Afghanistan; in fact, he has registered five 50+ scores in the format since the start of 2024 (5 half centuries), the joint most by any Afghanistan batter alongside Rahmanullah Gurbaz (3 tons and 2 half centuries).
- Joe Root (499 runs) is one away from becoming the first batter to score 500 runs for England at the ICC Champions Trophy and the 13th batter overall; in fact, he is one 50+ score away from becoming the first England batter to log five such scores in the competition.
- Ben Duckett (England) has made a strong connection on 17.8% of his 528 deliveries faced in men’s ODIs since the start of 2024, the second best among full-member side batters to have faced at least 300 balls during this period (Josh Inglis – 19.4%).