England vs Afghanistan, World Cup 2023 Match 13: Awards List, Man of The Match, Key Stats, Presentation Ceremony

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Afghanistan have registered the first major shock of the ICC World Cup 2023 as they toppled defending Champions England on Sunday (October 15) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

The Afghans pulled off a fantastic perfromance and won the match by 69 runs. Batting first, they scored 284 runs as Rahmanullah Gurbaz (80 off 57 balls) and Ikram Alikhil (68 off 66 balls) starred with the bat. And then it was a stellar display from their spinners who rattled the English batters as they skittled for 215 runs.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan both picked up three wickets each and their web of spin bamboozled the English batters.

Afghanistan register their first victory in the World Cup 2023, while England have now suffered their second defeat in three matches and left stranded behind the semifinal race.

England vs Afghanistan World Cup 2023: Awards List

Player of the Match: Mujeeb Ur Rahman - The Afghanistan youngster won the Player of the Match award for his all-around performance. Mujeeb batted at the latter end of Afghan inning and scored a superb cameo of 28 off 16 balls. And then with the ball, Mujeeb picked up three wickets.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman Comments:

Very proud moment to be here in the World Cup and beating the champions. It's a great achievement for the whole team, we worked hard for this day. We beat such a big team. It was a wonderful performance from the bowlers and the batters. We knew that the dew was going to come and play a part in the latter part. That's why I was telling the captain to bowl me in the powerplay. We were mentally prepared. (On his batting) It's all about the management, the players. They give me confidence in the nets. He has always been with me in the nets, my partner. He wants to hit each and every ball, that's the area I want to contribute as well. Those 20-25 runs means a lot for the team. This trophy is for the people back home who are affected by the earthquake in Herat. this whole win is for them.

England vs Afghanistan WC 2023 | Who said What

Jos Buttler (England Captain): "(the start with the ball) Disappointing. Obviously a tough loss to take and congratulations to Afghanistan, they outplayed us today. We made bad executions throughout the match and couldn't do things the way we wanted. That is where we lost the game. (Afghanistan bowling attack) Skillful attack and some fantastic spinners they have. The dew didn't come and the ball held. They bowled straight keeping the stumps in play and we weren't good today. (Recovery) You got to move on very quickly but let it hurt and reflect and work on where to get better. We have a lot of character and we got to show resilience and come back fighting. (Bowling attack) As a whole we are not at that level against good oppositions. Guys on the field and off will work hard to rectify that."

Hashmatullah Shahidi (Afghanistan Captain): (Afghanistan start) I'm quite happy, all the teammates are happy. This is the best win for us, the confidence will be there for the next game and I'm very proud. The openers get a lot of credit. They gave us a great start but unfortunately we lost back to back wickets in the middle again, lot of credit to the openers though, especially Gurbaz. Ikram was with us for the last 2 years and didn't get a lot of chances, today I believed in him and gave him a chance and he repaid my faith. (Mujeeb all round perfromance) Mujeeb batted brilliantly, he led from the front and scored important runs for us. We have to score runs, our batting lineup needs to score more for our spinners. We have a lot of confidence about our spinners. Fazal started very well, the first wicket gave us a lot of momentum. When I was batting, I realized the wicket wasn't supportive for batters against spinners. I told the boys that 280-290 will be enough when I got back into the dressing room. (Message to fans) This is just the first win, we are looking for more in the tournament. This was just the first one, not the last one.

England vs Afghanistan World Cup 2023 | Key Stats

• Afghanistan register only their 2nd victory in World Cup today and thus end their 14-match losing streak.
  
  
• Mohammad Nabi now has 15 World Cup wickets and becomes their top wickettaker in history. He crosses Dawlat Zadran's record of 14 wickets.
  
  
• A total of 13 wickets were picked up by spinners in the match, which the second highest-ever wickets tally by spinners in a World Cup match.