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Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE Score Updates, Champions Trophy 2025: Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan Lead Afghanistan's Fightback
Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE Score Updates, Champions Trophy 2025: Azmatullah Omarzai and Rashid Khan aim to help seven-down Afghanistan post a fighting total
AFG v AUS LIVE Scorecard Updates, Champions Trophy 2025© AFP
Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE Updates, Champions Trophy 2025: Azmatullah Omarzai and Rashid Khan aim to help seven-down Afghanistan post a fighting total against Australia in their do-or-die Champions Trophy match in Lahore. Spencer Johnson and Adam Zampa have picked two wickets each while Nathan Ellis and Glenn Maxwell have scalped one. Earlier, Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss and opted to bat. The winner of the match will make it to the semi-finals of the tournament, while the losing side will be eliminated from the tournament. (LIVE SCORECARD)
Here are the LIVE Score Updates of the Afghanistan vs Australia, Champions Trophy 2025 Group B match, straight from the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore:
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- 17:25 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: SIX!Tha is a sensational six from Azmatullah Omarzai. He created room for hismelf by moving on the leg side and slammed the Glenn Maxwell delivery for a 98-metre six. This is good game awareness from Afghanistan. They know they need a big total to challenge Australia or this game will be nearly over in the first innings itself.AFG 211/7 (42.1)
- 17:15 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: OUT!Gulbadin Naib is out! He never looked comfortably during his short stay at the crease and now departs for 4 runs off 12 balls. A back of length ball from Nathan Ellis and Naib tried to play a pull shot but got a leading edge. Wicketkeeper Josh Inglis ran for the ball and comfortably completed the catch.AFG 199/7 (40)
- 17:06 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Bizarre review!37.1 - That is a bizarre review from Australia. A short of length ball from Nathan Ellis missed the outside edge of Azmatullah Omarzai's bat but wicketkeeper Josh Inglis made a huge appeal. So huge that captain Steven Smith had to go upstairs only to find out that there was a massive gap between the bat and the ball. The replay saw Ellis giving a big laugh to it.
- 17:00 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: WICKET!Run-out! This is the last thing Afghanistan would have wanted at this stage. Spencer Johnson bowled a bouncer down the leg side and wicketkeeper Josh Inglis failed to collect it at the first attempt. Mohammad Nabi went forward for a single before being sent back. Johnson showed good presence of mind to reach to the stumps and collect the throw from Inglis before somehow getting it hitting the target. Nabi was well short of his crease.AFG 182/6 (36.4)
- 16:50 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: WICKET!Hashmatullah Shahidi is gone and Afghanistan are five down now. Australia are right on top of this game. Adam Zampa gets his second wicket. Shahidi went across and wanted to hit it over the in-field but was caught out by backward square leg fielder. He departs for 20 off 49 balls.AFG 176/5 (35.4)
- 16:37 (IST)
- 16:33 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Another chance goes begging!29.5 - Another error from Australia. There was clear-cut chance for a run-out. Just a throw at right end would have put curtains on Hashmatullah Shahidi's knock, but the fielder at covers made a blunder there. Shahidi hit the ball and ran for a single, but Sediqullah Atal was watching the ball. He decided not to take the run, but Shahidi was halfway down the pitch. Had the throw gone to the striker's end, Shahidi would have been out. But the throw went to the non-striker's end instead.AFG 156/3 (30)
- 16:26 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Shout for LBW!28.5 - A loud shout for LBW against Sediqullah Atal on the bowling of Nathan Ellis but umpire was not convinced. Australia decided not to review against it. It seemed that the ball might have pitched down the leg stump. Oh, no!!! The ball tracking shows that it would have pitched on the line of stumps and gone to hit the middle stump. That is a massive blunder from Australia.
- 16:18 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: SIX!Adam Zampa is back on the ground and he is welcomed by a six off the first ball on his return. That is a superb as well as courageous shot from Sediqullah Atal for a six. The mid-off was inside the ring and Sediqullah jumped out of his crease to play the shot.AFG 137/3 (27.1)
- 16:10 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Expensive over!10 runs came off the comeback over from Ben Dwarshuis. Sediqullah Atal slammed a four on the fifth ball of the over. Notably, Adam Zampa is out of the ground due to reported niggle. This is a serious concern for Australia.AFG 126/3 (25)
- 15:59 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: 100 up for Afghanistan!Sediqullah Atal takes a single on the bowling of Matthew Short and there is the 100-run mark for Afghanistan. They get there after losing three wickets but they could still make a game out ot this as Sediqullah is close to his fifty.AFG 100/3 (21.3)
- 15:46 (IST)AFG vs AUS LIVE: Australia back in control!Afghanistan's scoring rate has fallen to 4.71. The wicket of Zadran has made a massive difference as the side has added only 10 runs off 21 balls post that. Sediqullah Atal is close to his half-century and he will be the key for Afghanistan.AFG 80/2 (17)
- 15:32 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: WICKET!Ibrahim Zadran is gone! Big wicket for Adam Zampa in his very first over. That is a massive blow for Afghanitan as they were looking really good through that partnership between Zadran and Sediqullah Atal, but this wicket has put Australia back in the game.AFG 70/2 (13.3)
- 15:25 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Runs are coming!Afghanistan have scored 39 runs in the last five overs. This is good scoring rate from the Afghans that too against the 2023 world champions. The partnership between Ibrahim Zadran and Sediqullah Atal now grows to 60 runs.AFG 63/1 (11)
- 14:49 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Relive the Gurbaz's dismissal!
Goneee!#SpencerJohnson sends #RahmanullahGurbaz packing with a brilliant yorker!
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- 14:11 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Here are the teams!Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq FarooqiAustralia: Travis Head, Matt Short, Steven Smith (capt), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson
- 14:01 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Moments away from the toss!Since there is no rain at the moment, toss is likely to go as planned. However, there is high cloud cover over the ground at the moment. A lot of rain yesterday but the outfield is good. A maximum of 19 degrees today so the conditons are very pleasant. The predicted rainfall is reducing by the minute with a 25 percent chance of rain and there's a nice wind blowing across the stadium.
- 13:45 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: AFG not focused on its bete noire!Despite Maxwell's carnage in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi has said that his has chalked out plans for the entire Australian side and is not just focussed on one player."You think we will come only to play with Maxwell? Do you think it will be like that? We have planned for entire Australian team, and I know that he (Maxwell) played really well in the 2023 World Cup, but that's part of the history," Shahidi said at the pre-match press conference on Thursday."After that, we beat them in T20 World Cup, and we think about all opposition team. We are not coming to the ground to plan on individual players. We will try our best to come with the planning, and we are not playing only Maxwell - we are playing Australia," Shahidi added.
- 13:37 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Some good news from Lahore!As per ESPNcricinfo, "it rained overnight in Lahore. Luckily, it's dry now. It's fluctuating between an overcast and clear sky (sunny). The picture does not seem grim right now." Hopefully, we there won't be a washout today.
- 13:30 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Pride on the line for AFG!For Afghanistan, this is more than just a game. Cricket Australia has refused to play Afghanistan in bilateral series, citing concerns over the humanitarian crisis in the country, particularly the treatment of girls and women by the Taliban.
- 13:23 (IST)Afghanistan vs Australia LIVE: Dark clouds loom over Lahore!Rain threat looms over this encounter as the weather forecast has predicted more than 70 per cent chance of rain in and around the Gaddafi Stadium. Stay tuned as we await an official confirmation of the current scene.
- 13:15 (IST)
Topics mentioned in this article
Afghanistan
Australia Cricket Team
Steve Smith
Rashid Khan
Adam Zampa
Mohammad Nabi
Glenn Maxwell
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