NED vs AFG Live Score, World Cup 2023: Afghanistan will look to make it three wins on the trot as they take on Netherlands at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
Netherlands vs Afghanistan Live Score, Cricket World Cup 2023: Netherlands threw away wickets with reckless abandon as they lost 4 of their key men due to run outs as they were bundled out for 179 runs against Afghanistan. Mohammad Nabi took 3 wickets while Sybrand Engelbrecht top scored for the Dutch with 53 runs.
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The Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards won the toss and elected to bat against Afghanistan in their World Cup match on Friday. Afghanistan brought in Noor Ahmad in place of Naveen Ul Haq, while Netherlands made three changes, replacing opener Vikramjit Singh with Wesley Barresi while Roelof van der Merwe and Saqib Zulfiqar also made it to the playing XI.
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Match EndedICC Cricket World Cup, 2023 – Match 34
Netherlands
179 (46.3)
vs
Afghanistan
181/3 (31.3)
Match Ended ( Day – Match 34 )
Afghanistan beat Netherlands by 7 wickets
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi: Father wrote 44 books on science, cricketer-son loves Bollywood and is taking Afghanistan cricket to new heights
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi was swamped with requests for selfies, but none of them were for him. He was just a messenger to his teammates. Most of them were there for Rashid Khan, the spin wizard and big-hitting lower order batsman. “Sabko Rashid (Khan) ke saath selfie lena hai (Everyone wants to take a selfie with Rashid). He is a superstar,” Hashmatullah says.
For Hashmatullah, who hails from Logar, 87 km away from Kabul, it was either physics books or bats to pick from and he chose the latter. His father, Mohammad Hashim Shahidi, a physics professor, has written 44 books and wanted his son to become a top scientist.
“I belong to an educated family. My father has written all the physics textbooks from Class 9 to 12. He has written 44 books on science. He was very smart. He wanted me to keep education as my first priority and cricket just as a hobby. I never liked physics that much. Mai acha tha bhi nahi padhai mey (I was never good at studies),” Hashmatullah tells The Indian Express in an exclusive interview. (READ MORE)
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First published on: 03-11-2023 at 12:16 IST
