CWC2023: Stokes , Willey powers England to consolation win as Pakistan bites the dust again

 



Reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup may have been impossible.  At least Pakistan could have tried to win the match.  But after losing the toss, perhaps Babar Azam's desire to play was gone.  Babar's embarrassing loss of 93 runs against England at Eden.  Pakistan has to return home empty handed from Calcutta.



 England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and decided to bat first.  England also had nothing to gain from this World Cup.  But they wanted to finish the last match with their heads held high.  England's openers started well.  Dawood Malan was dismissed for 31 runs.  Jonny Bairstow scored 59 runs.


 Joe Root and Ben Stokes led the team in the middle order.  They started running fast.  Pakistan also suffered in this match with their bowling in the middle overs.  The team's spinners could not take wickets.  The English batters did not have any problem.  Root scored 60 runs.  Stokes had a chance to score a century in this match as well.  But he got out after scoring 84 runs.  As a few wickets fell in the end, England's runs were a little less.  They finished with 337 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs.


 To win this match and go to the semi-finals, Babar had to score 338 runs in 40 balls, which was impossible.  But it seemed that Babar will try to win at least.  But that didn't happen either.  Two openers, Abdullah Shafiq, were dismissed for 0 and Fakhar Zaman was out for 1 run.  Babar scored 38 runs.  As soon as the Pak captain got out, Eden's gallery began to empty.  More fans left the field after Mohammed Rizwan was dismissed for 36 runs.


 Agha Salman was the only Pakistan batsman to score 51 runs.  The rest succumbed to the spin of Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali.  Towards the end, Shaheen Afridi, Harris Rauf and Mohammad Wasim Jr entertained the crowd with some big shots.  But it was not possible to win the match.  Pakistan's loss was long overdue.  In the end they were all out for 244 runs in 43.3 overs.

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