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Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi has expressed his delight with the way his side successfully chased down 283 runs in a stunning upset against Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 football
Afghanistan on Monday clinched their second win in the 2023 World Cup by comfortably beating Pakistan by eight wickets at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium football
It marked Afghanistan’s first-ever One-Day International (ODI) victory against their neighbours football
Overjoyed Afghanistan skipper Shahidi, who scored the winning run, said the victory that ended their seven-match losing streak to Pakistan “tastes sweet” football
Veteran all-rounder Mohammad Nabi said the win was bigger than the one against England earlier in the tournament football
RecommendedAustralia vs Netherlands LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ODI World CupDavid Warner and Mitchell Marsh tons guide Australia to World Cup win over PakistanJoe Root acknowledges growing uncertainty surrounding future of ODI cricket“This win tastes sweet football
The way we chased was very professional football
Looking forward to the other games football
The way we chased today, we’ll do it again,” Shahidi said at the post-match presentation on Monday football
“The quality cricket that we have been playing from the last couple of years, the belief was there when we were playing the Asia Cup also football
”“At the start of the tournament, I said that we want to make this tournament historic for our country’s people football
First was England, and today Pakistan; looking forward to the other games football
We’ll try our best to play positive cricket and do a lot for our country in this World Cup football
”Afghanistan produced an all-round effort against Pakistan, who fell short in their bowling and fielding, according to their captain Babar Azam football
The spin team of Afghanistan, as anticipated, were excellent on the Chennai track, with only Mujeeb Ur Rahman finishing with an economy of over six football
The rest of the spinners – Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed and Nabi – leaked just three or four runs an over in their respective 10-over spells football
“The spin bowling department did very well football
We gave Noor a chance and trusted in him and he showed his talent football
The way Gurbaz and Ibrahim started the innings, gave that momentum and confidence football
The game was in our hands from the beginning till the end football
The last partnership that me and Rahmat played was also good,” said the Afghan skipper football
Nabi, meanwhile, was thrilled to finally get a victory over Pakistan in the 50-over format football
“It’s a big moment for the whole team, but also whole [of] Afghanistan as well football
We have been waiting for the last 10-12 years football
We have played around eight games against Pakistan, and we won one game in a big event,” said Nabi in a post-match interview football
“It’s a big achievement for the guys football
For the last three months, we’ve been working very hard football
We played a series against Pakistan, then the Asia Cup, and then came here to the World Cup football
It’s a lovely moment today football
”Afghanistan jumped to sixth place in the Cricket World Cup 2023 points table, while Pakistan remained in the fifth spot football
Pakistan’s team has four points from five games with a net run rate of -0 football
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Their road to the semi-final looks tough now as their remaining group games are against South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand and England football
South Africa and New Zealand are in top form while England are the defending champions football
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As any Paris shop owner will tell you, an alluring storefront can be everything football
In this beautiful old city, the public are spoilt for choice, chic spots and souvenir shops abundant along the narrow streets and grand boulevards football
A bit of glitz and glamour in an attractive aperture can be the difference football between a passing glance and a bustling boutique football
And so the Rugby World Cup reaches its day of greatest shop window prominence, hoping to dazzle with a Stade de France showpiece contest football between two great rivals football
On Saturday, South Africa and New Zealand will battle to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for a record fourth time, the etcher at the ready though unlikely to be able to start their work too soon with two such evenly-matched, if radically different, sides football
You could hardly have a more enticing game to sell the sport football
The eyes of the world will be watching; this encounter has every chance of enchanting them football
“This is what World Cup finals are about,” Ian Foster, New Zealand’s head coach, said this week football
“I don’t think there’s ever a small one football
“The fact is we have two teams who have been old foes for a long time football
We all remember the last final football between us [in 1995], which was an epic, and hopefully this one will be the same football
We’ve got three World Cups each and someone is going to win four football
It’s a special occasion, isn’t it?”A match of such magnitude and potential magnificence comes at the end of a momentous week for rugby union football
On Tuesday, World Rugby’s council narrowly gave the go-ahead to grand plans that will reshape international men’s rugby union football
From 2026, gone, largely, will be traditional tours, replaced by a two-tiered structure that will provide consistent, meaningful and contextualised rugby for the world’s top 24 nations football
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There is a need for more equal sharing of wealth and greater support for emergent unions, though there are at least steps in the right direction even amidst a lack of clarity football
Certainly, the implementation of a global calendar should aid in reducing the infighting that has so often held this sport back football
The buoyancy of the rugby television rights market remains to be seen but there is hope at World Rugby, the Six Nations and Sanzaar that the new competition - yet to be officially titled but tagged the “Nations Championship” - will prove an attractive proposition for broadcasters at a time where the sport needs to swell revenue football
It can be forgotten that rugby is young professionally, its economy a frontier market football
There is a general acceptance that great missteps were made in the establishment of the structures that have defined the last 28 years, and a more cohesive, collaborative and joined-up approach is required to build sustainably henceforth football
If, at times, rugby could be accused of swaying to capitalist whims, this is surely a time for a left-ward shift as it evolves football
Hosts France were knocked out after an epic quarter-final against South Africa (Adam Davy/PA) (PA Wire)“This is a quantum leap forward for the game,” said Bill Beaumont, World Rugby’s chairman, this week football
“"It’s fitting that we finish this, the sport’s greatest celebration of togetherness, with the sport’s greatest feat of togetherness, the most significant development in the sport since the game went professional football
"A new era is about to begin for our sport football
An era that will bring certainty and opportunity for all football
An era that will support the many, not the few and an era that will supercharge the development of the sport beyond its traditional and often self-imposed boundaries football
”The rugby landscape come the next men’s tournament in Australia in four years’ time could look very different football
The World Cup itself, meanwhile, is similarly evolving, an expansion to 24 teams and six pools necessitating a new model, with World Rugby considering basing the four sides in each group around a single city football
This is the last time that the host nation will take responsibility for the organisation of the tournament, with the sport’s governing body assuming greater control football
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the next four years could also see the introduction of a reduced tackle height law to the professional game, with it already in place in recreational rugby in many parts of the world football
But there are also concerns over the financial sustainability of the sport, at club level particularly football
All of England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand have concerns over what the future holds for their domestic games – this may be a great final, and may have been a great tournament, but it would be wrong to ignore the broader ill health of the sport football
Brodie Retallick, Samuel Whitelock and Luke Jacobson of New Zealand prepare for a scrum (Getty Images)If this is the end of an era, there could be no more fitting way to finish football
South Africa and New Zealand have forged a defining rivalry, three World Cup crowns apiece making Saturday’s encounter a chase for number four and the outright men’s record football
Their last meeting in a final, that historic day in 1995, ushered in rugby union’s professional age; this game might be the start of another epoch football
If there is a slight disappointment that neither Ireland nor, particularly, France did not make it here given the manner in which they seemed to be building to a quadrennial crescendo, these are the two great men’s rugby sides, whose players and fans embody contrasting but colourful cultures football
On the pitch, it should be spectacular, too football
These are two teams that represent the stylistic diversity that so often proves rugby’s strength football
To describe it simply as South Africa’s forward might against the All Blacks’ brilliant backs would be to diminish the rounded nature of two fine sides, but there is no doubt that these great rivals approach the game from alternative perspectives football
Kurt-Lee Arendse passes the ball watched by Cheslin Kolbe (Getty Images)And, as with any showpiece like this, the storylines are innumerable football
Take the men in charge football
For South Africa, Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber, considering every detail like Rodin’s Thinker, could become the most decorated pair in tournament history if they repeat their 2019 victory football
For Ian Foster in the opposite coaching box, meanwhile, this triumph would be testament to the tenacity and toughness of a man who so nearly lost his job last year football
Who would begrudge Sam Whitelock, the old warhorse of the All Blacks pack, going out on his shield with a third World Cup winners’ medal? Or what about Siya Kolisi, the boy from a township on the Eastern Cape who became the defining figure of a golden rugby generation, joining Richie McCaw as the only captains to lift the Webb Ellis Cup twice? This could be one of the great rugby days football
"I don’t think it’s stuff that you can dream about because it doesn’t happen often,” said Kolisi ahead of the final football
“I don’t think it will happen in our lifetime again to have two teams like this football
We’ve prepared as hard as we can football
We know what to expect football
I don’t think as a player it will ever get any bigger football
” Beauden Barrett runs with the ball (Getty Images)More aboutSouth Africa rugbyNew Zealand rugbyRugby World CupWorld RugbySpringboksAll BlacksSiya KolisiRassie ErasmusIan FosterJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/5Spectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraSpectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraHosts France were knocked out after an epic quarter-final against South Africa (Adam Davy/PA)PA WireSpectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraBrodie Retallick, Samuel Whitelock and Luke Jacobson of New Zealand prepare for a scrumGetty ImagesSpectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraKurt-Lee Arendse passes the ball watched by Cheslin KolbeGetty ImagesSpectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraBeauden Barrett runs with the ballGetty ImagesSpectacular All Blacks v Springboks final will launch rugby’s new eraMark Telea of New Zealand breaks through South Africa in the last meeting football between the sides in August at TwickenhamGetty Images✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today football
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