Cricket: New Zealand have landed a third straight win to begin the Cricket World Cup with a dominant showing against Afghanistan.
New Zealand has approximately 5.2 million citizens, which equates to less than 0.3 per cent of India’s estimated population.
New Zealand currently sits third on the World Cup standings, needing to win two of their remaining four group stage matches to book their spot in the semi-finals — even one victory could be enough, pending net run rate and other results.The Black Caps achieved this despite essentially only having 13 players at their disposal. Kane Williamson missed the first half of the tournament with a knee injury before fracturing his thumb in his long-awaited return against Bangladesh.
“They just do the basics right, and they’ve got a lot of self-belief,’ Waugh told Fox Cricket this week.“There’s no egos in that New Zealand squad. They’re playing for each other, and you can see it on the field.New Zealand, everyone’s second favourite team, perennially punch above their weight in ICC events, featuring in the semi-finals at every World Cup since 2007 — only Australia has won more World Cup matches since the inaugural tournament in 1975.
“They play brilliant cricket as a unit, especially in World Cup competition,” Indian legend Ravi Shastri told Fox Cricket. Trent Boult and Kane Williamson, who featured in both final heartbreaks in 2015 and 2019, will be desperate to make amends in their last World Cup campaign.
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