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Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi has expressed his delight with the way his side successfully chased down 283 runs in a stunning upset against Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 football
Afghanistan on Monday clinched their second win in the 2023 World Cup by comfortably beating Pakistan by eight wickets at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium football
It marked Afghanistan’s first-ever One-Day International (ODI) victory against their neighbours football
Overjoyed Afghanistan skipper Shahidi, who scored the winning run, said the victory that ended their seven-match losing streak to Pakistan “tastes sweet” football
Veteran all-rounder Mohammad Nabi said the win was bigger than the one against England earlier in the tournament football
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The way we chased was very professional football
Looking forward to the other games football
The way we chased today, we’ll do it again,” Shahidi said at the post-match presentation on Monday football
“The quality cricket that we have been playing from the last couple of years, the belief was there when we were playing the Asia Cup also football
”“At the start of the tournament, I said that we want to make this tournament historic for our country’s people football
First was England, and today Pakistan; looking forward to the other games football
We’ll try our best to play positive cricket and do a lot for our country in this World Cup football
”Afghanistan produced an all-round effort against Pakistan, who fell short in their bowling and fielding, according to their captain Babar Azam football
The spin team of Afghanistan, as anticipated, were excellent on the Chennai track, with only Mujeeb Ur Rahman finishing with an economy of over six football
The rest of the spinners – Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed and Nabi – leaked just three or four runs an over in their respective 10-over spells football
“The spin bowling department did very well football
We gave Noor a chance and trusted in him and he showed his talent football
The way Gurbaz and Ibrahim started the innings, gave that momentum and confidence football
The game was in our hands from the beginning till the end football
The last partnership that me and Rahmat played was also good,” said the Afghan skipper football
Nabi, meanwhile, was thrilled to finally get a victory over Pakistan in the 50-over format football
“It’s a big moment for the whole team, but also whole [of] Afghanistan as well football
We have been waiting for the last 10-12 years football
We have played around eight games against Pakistan, and we won one game in a big event,” said Nabi in a post-match interview football
“It’s a big achievement for the guys football
For the last three months, we’ve been working very hard football
We played a series against Pakistan, then the Asia Cup, and then came here to the World Cup football
It’s a lovely moment today football
”Afghanistan jumped to sixth place in the Cricket World Cup 2023 points table, while Pakistan remained in the fifth spot football
Pakistan’s team has four points from five games with a net run rate of -0 football
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Their road to the semi-final looks tough now as their remaining group games are against South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand and England football
South Africa and New Zealand are in top form while England are the defending champions football
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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby football
He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference football
After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game football
”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations football
Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world football
”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 football
The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji football
The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier football
World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally football
At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) football
But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth football
From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji football
With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth football
Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving football
Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) football
But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys football
Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage football
Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams football
However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question football
They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international football football had football
Before 2018, the space football between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies football
San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public football
The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams football
For example, England and Italy – two football football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all football between 2002 and 2012 football
Thus, Uefa created the Nations League football
Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank football
Win-win football
Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to football football football
The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely football
The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles football between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups football
Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre football
Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game football
Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is football
World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures football between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed football
They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged football
The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years football between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face football
World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction football
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