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IMO, it is 99% confirmed that India, South Africa and New Zealand will qualify for the semi-finals. In case of Australia, I'm around 90% sure. But at least theoretically, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan also can qualify for the semi-finals if all the remaining matches go in their favor. 6 rounds of group phase games are done and we are left with just 3 rounds now. I hope that we will have more clarity once the 7th round is complete. If Australia wins against England, then they are almost assured of a spot in the semi-finals.

Still there is no confirmation which teams will qualify for the semifinals except India. Because India is on top and remain on top and will definitely qualify for the semifinal. From now all teams have 3 3 matches left. So there is a big (?) That who will qualify for the semifinal. If SA will win from NZ so SA will also remain in semifinals teams list. By the way no one can say anything at this time.

Afghanistan beat First England, then Pakistan and now they beat Sri Lanka. Afghanistan have beaten 3 former ODI World  Champions in this World Cup. This is a very special team. Their semi-final dream is alive. In a thrilling cricket showdown, Afghanistan exhibited their prowess, clinching a commanding seven-wicket win against Sri Lanka. The brilliance of Afghanistan's bowlers, spearheaded by Fazalhaq Farooqi impressive 4 for 34, restricted Sri Lanka to a modest 241. After restricted Srilanka to 241, Afghanistan chase down the target easily.

They may not be guaranteed, but I was judging from their performance.

There are still a lot of permutations and combinations. Today we have the Pakistan vs Bangladesh match. If Pakistan wins this one, then they may replace Afghanistan at the no.5 position (Pakistan is having a better run rate). But then, Afghanistan in their next match will be facing a weak Netherlands. If they win, then they will be left with 8 points. And Australia will have a tough match against England and they need to win that one. Things are getting heated up at the moment, and apart from India none of the other teams have guaranteed their semi-final slots. 

Despite Afghans beating SA team in early game, I don't think they have got much chances for the semis. From the looks of it we have qualifiers decided, and those are India, Australia, SA and NZ — although Australia played really poor cricket before but they have came back really well.

If somehow, Afghanistan manages in semi it'll be treat for them enough, I already see their videos on Twitter celebrating wins, imagine the celebration of the match that gets them into semis 

Afghanistan team played this match without any pressure. All the players were looking easy and played decently. When Rahmanullah Gurbaz who got out in the first 4 balls with 0 runs. This was a pressuring moment for Afghanistan but Ibrahim Zardan and Rahmat Shah made 73 runs partnership. They both tried well to stand the team and they got success. After that Hashmatullah Shahidi and Azmatullah Omarzai played well and atlast Afghanistan won the match.

A target of 242 on this pitch was not enough to win. The pitch was completely batting friendly. Even then Sri Lankan batsmen could not do well. Sri Lanka's batting was very slow from the beginning of the innings. Sri Lanka would have been able to win if they had given a target of more than 300. 241 runs is a very low collection on this pitch. However, Afghanistan won the match as expected. Afghanistan batsmen have batted very responsibly. Except Rahmanullah Gurbaz, every batsman in the top order has been able to perform well. Azmatullah Omarzai managed to play an excellent innings of 73 runs off just 63 balls. Rahmat Shah and Hashmatullah Shahidi also batted very well.

Rehmat Shah has been dismissed, but he has already done huge damage from his side and hence his dismissal will not favour anything for sirilankan in this match. If we deeply analyse Afghanistan team their player really improving their self day by day in this world cup and mostly their opener Carry the inning at their top, but today things were not completely in their favour as gurbaz departure really early but just like Ravindra a lower middle order batter does a significant contribution for his team same things is repeated by afghan lower middle all-rounder omarzai by adding a crucial contribution of 73 with the help of 3 sixes and 6 boundaries.

Currently, situation is very interesting because Australian fight back into this event with four wins is impressive, and now we have good nail-biting fight for the top ranks specially Afghanistan entry is amazing they are doing good job after beating three big teams and New Zealand collapse is also not good because most chances they are going to lose against spirited South Africa as well which will bring them to the fourth spot even still they are favorite for the top four, but things are going not good.

Australia is having good performance in last few matches even encounter against New Zealand was impressive but their fightback and confidence level is high with these wins which can bring them to the third spot as well but for the first spot look like we can go for the South Africa which is learning their lessons after lost against the Netherlands, but Australian needs to have some improvement if they want to keep things at their best.

Afghanistan is really at its best, with the match-winning players they have now, and all the players of Afghanistan are playing cricket with their hearts and with their full energy, when we see them on the ground we can see their hard work on their faces that at which stage they were before and now they are playing massive cricket and represent their country, this is also a perfect example of the hard work we have seen from the Afghanistan Cricket Team.

Although Sri Lanka is not playing because their bowling was weak today and Afghanistan has easily reached the target. We can still expect more better cricket from the Team of Afghanistan. Best wishes to all the teams in the top 4 who are qualifying and the teams which are below the top 4 are doing their best to make a place in the top 4.

A proud able moment for the Afghanistan as they beat three former world champions in one event which is impressive from them now they have next game against the Netherlands which is also looking into their favor with their current form and consistency I am feeling sad for their lost against Bangladesh because if they have won in this match then surely things could be interesting for their chances into last four but now it is looking no easy, but they are able to stay into top seven which could be another amazing stuff currently they are at the fifth spot ahead of Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka were not good at batting and after having just 241 runs on board their bowling were also not good which give them any chance for the win all top order batsmen done things which responsibly which is impressive here we need to work from the English coach Jonathan Trot which done good job in last few months and bring this team at this level.

Afghanistan team won by 7 wickets against Sri Lanka in today's match. In today's match, the Sri Lankan team batted first and set a target of 242 runs to the Afghanistan team. I think the target of 242 runs was not enough to prevent the Afghanistan team from winning. If the Sri Lankan team could score 300+ runs in this match today, they would have a chance to win against Afghanistan. Sri Lankan team has done worse in both batting and bowling in this match and Sri Lankan team players have done worse in bowling than batting. The players of the opposing Afghanistan team played very well. Afghanistan team players have performed well especially in terms of batting. Afghanistan team player Rahmanullah Gurbaz could not bat well but Ibrahim Jordan, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Azmatullah played very well. Ibrahim Jordan 39 from 57 balls, Rahmat 62 from 74 balls, run out. And Hashmatullah Shahidi remained unbeaten with 58 off 74 balls and Azmatullah 73 off 63 balls. In fact, Afghanistan deserved to win today's match. Congratulations to the Afghanistan team for giving a beautiful match

It seems that the Afghanistan team were getting stronger in the ODI format. I am not really enjoying this World Cup. The matches are becoming one-sided all the time, so there is no exciting feeling. Although today I thought it would be a competitive fight between the two teams, but the match turned out to be the opposite. However, Afghanistan's batsmen must be given credit for winning this match.
Although Afghanistan did not have a good start to this World Cup, due to the bowling skills of their bowlers and the batting lineup being a bit stronger, now Afghanistan team can be said to be a strong team. At the beginning of the World Cup, people's thoughts about them have changed now a lot. However, apart from the Netherlands, Afghanistan will have to fight with two other strong teams Australia and South Africa. Then it will be understood whether Afghanistan will go to the semi-finals. In this World Cup, the team with the strongest batting lineup can only survive. Afghanistan's batting line-up seems to be getting stronger day by day, let's see if Afghanistan's batsmen can maintain its consistency.

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Anyway, the match between Pakistan and Bangladesh is going to be held tomorrow, what do you think about this match, who will win this match? My personal guess Bangladesh team will lose in this match too.

You had missed the team Netherland,still this team had a chance to take part in the semi finals.Because they had won the South Africa with the 38 runs which was the biggest margin win and good run rate defeat.The Netherland game against the Bangladesh itself the best knock and made the history in this World Cup.Because the team Bangladesh had the play in the international track using the Asia Cup with the top teams like India,Pakistan and Afghanistan.But the Netherland doesn’t have much explosure to the international game and made the biggest record of winning against the South Africa and the Bangladesh and Afghanistan was in the row for them.

This year's World Cup is mainly for India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Afghanistan, because these teams are performing quite well in this year's World Cup, on the other hand, countries like Bangladesh, England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka seem to be in disarray. England and Bangladesh are performing so badly that England and Bangladesh could not pick up a win except for one match. However, there is a doubt whether Bangladesh will have any qualification to play in the Champions League despite the defeat in this year's World Cup. If Bangladesh is not among the top 8 teams in the ICC ODI rankings, Bangladesh will not have any qualification to play in the Champions League.

Afghanistan team have won the match by 7 wickets and moved to the 5^th position on the points table. Sri Lanka looked confident when they're batting, even 241 runs looked like a better score. While Afghanistan started to chase the target the winning probability was just 23% and once after the wicket fall of Gurbaz things went much in favour of Sri Lanka. Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmat Shah further built good partnership losing the second wicket at 73 runs. Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Omarzai then built 100+ runs partnership and took the team to win the match in the 46^th over.

Another comprehensive victory for Afghanistan in this world cup as they defeated Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in Pune. Afghanistan chase down the target of 242 runs in loss of 3 wickets in 45.2 overs. A match-winning 77 run unbeaten inning vs Pakistan, and also match winning inning by a 62 vs Sri Lanka. Rahmat Shah batted with temperament once again and got out while Afghanistan was in a good position to win the match.

Afghanistan Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi scored 58 runs unbeaten in 74 balls and Azmatullah Omarzai batting outstanding performances with the bat scored 73 runs not out in just 63 balls against Sri Lanka and won match by 7 wickets. The player of the match is Fazalhaq Farooqi for his amazing bowling performance picked up 4 important wicktes by giving 34 runs in 10 over match winning spell.

At this time when I am writing this post the Afghan team needs 11 runs on 39 balls and after completing this post they will win this match. They have proven themselves again, last time they beat Pakistan team, and this time they beat Sri Lanka, which both are strong. This show that they are improving, they are making every part of the team stronger, their fielding, their batsman, and bowlers are performing very well in this two matches. Gurbaz in this match did not perform and dropped his wicket on zero runs while the rest of the players made a good run. The three players without Gurbaz and the person doing bating is outstanding making the match comfortable and relax. In the bowlers, Faroqi got 4 wickets in this match just imagine. I think they won the match so congratulations to the Afghan team supporters.

Afghanistan secured victory by a wide wicket margin. The bowling line of the Afghanistan team is very strong due to which the Sri Lanka team was bowled out for just 241 runs. But Sri Lanka set a target of 241 runs and the Afghanistan team easily managed to meet this target of 241 runs, as they stayed on the field till the end, protecting the wicket. Afghanistan player AzmatUllah was the best performer today as he scored 73 runs unbeaten. And collected a wicket in 7 overs. AzmatUllah played the most important role in giving the Afghanistan team the victory.