2019 ICC World Cup in England & Wales May 30 to July 14,2019 - Match 24 England Vs Afghanistan @ Old Trafford,Manchester Tuesday June 18,2019

 Venue Stats


Old Trafford, in Manchester, is one of the oldest and most historic venues in cricket. It hosted its first Test – between England and Australia – in 1884 and made its ODI debut, again featuring the same countries in 1972 – this was the second ODI in history
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Overall, Manchester has hosted 48 ODIs including the clash between India and Pakistan in the ongoing 2019 World Cup on Sunday, 16th June. England will take on Afghanistan in the second ODI Manchester will host in the tournament.

Old Trafford had been a tough ground for the batsmen - the average score batting first here was just 216 – before India smashed 336 for 5 against Pakistan on Sunday – the highest team total at the venue

Overall, there have only been four 300-plus team scores at the venue with the next highest being Sri Lanka’s 318 for 7 against England in 2006. The lowest score at the venue is Canada’s 45 against England in the 1979 World Cup

England’s 132-run win over Pakistan in 1978 is the biggest margin of victory (in terms of number of runs) at Manchester.

Graham Gooch aggregated 405 runs at Old Trafford – the maximum at the venue though it was Viv Richards who had the most outstanding record here – he scored 284 runs in just 3 innings at an average of 142 and strike rate of 97.93.


Viv Richards unbeaten 189 against England in 1984 – amongst the best ODI innings in the format’s history – is the highest score at the venue.

Rohit Sharma’s magnificent 140 off just 113 deliveries against Pakistan in the 2019 CWC on Sunday June 16,2019 is the 13th hundred at Old Trafford in ODI cricket.

Saeed Anwar and Wajahatullah Wasti put together 194 for the opening wicket against New Zealand in the 1999 World Cup semi-final clash here at Old Trafford – it is the highest partnership at the venue.

Bob Willis has taken the highest number of wickets at Manchester – 15 in 9 matches at 17.13 apiece.

There have been five 5-wicket hauls at Old Trafford with Glenn McGrath’s 5-14 in 8.4 overs against the West Indies in the 1999 World Cup the best bowling figures at the venue.


Head to Head in CWC's

England play their 5th match having

1. defeated South Africa by 104 Runs @ The Oval on May 30
2. lost to Pakistan by 14 Runs @Trent Bridge,Nottingham on June 03
3. defeated Bangladesh by 106 Runs @ Cardiff on June 08
4. defeated West Indies by 8 wickets @ The Rose Bowl,Southampton on June 14

Afghanistan play 5th match their having

1. lost to Australia by 7 wickets @ Bristol on June 01
2. lost to Sri Lanka by 34 Runs under D/L @ Cardiff on June 04
3. lost to  New Zealand by 7 2wickets @ Taunton on June 08
4. lost to South Africa by 9 wickets@ Cardiff on June 15,2019

England beat Afghanistan by 150 Runs

Scorecard

England              397/6 in 50 Overs
Jonny Bairstow    90(99 Balls 4x8 and 6x3)
Joe Root                88(82 Balls 4x5 and 6x1)
Eoin Morgan      148(71 Balls 4x4 and 6x17)
Gulbadin Naib        3/68(10 Overs)
Dawlat Zadran        3/85(10 Overs)

Afghanistan       247/8 in 50 Overs
Gulbadin Naib   37(28 Balls 4x4 and 6x1)
Rahmat Shah     46(74 Balls  4x3 and 6x1)
Asghar Afghan   44(48 Balls 4x3 and 6x2)
Jofra Archer          3/52(10 Overs)
Adil Rashid            3/66(10 Overs)
Mark Wood           2/40(10 Overs)

Match Result     England won by 150 Runs
MOM                   Eoin Morgan 148(71 Balls 4x4 and 6x17)

England were in record-breaking mood at Old Trafford as they produced the best batting display of the World Cup so far.

Having won the toss and opted to bat first against Afghanistan in Manchester, the hosts paced their innings perfectly as Jonny Bairstow’s 90 off 99 balls and Joe Root’s 88 from 82 set the platform for Eoin Morgan to provide the real fireworks.

The skipper produced a true captain’s knock to smash 148 off just 71 deliveries and take his side to 397/6 from their 50 overs.

There were records aplenty tumbling, so we’ve run you through a few of the most eye-opening stats from England’s exhilarating effort.

17: Most individual sixes in an ODI innings

Perhaps the headline record to fall was Morgan setting a new high for the most sixes by any player in an ODI.
The England captain smashed an eye-watering 17 maximums to surpass the record of 16 jointly-held by India’s Rohit Sharma, South Africa’s AB de Villiers and the West Indies’ Chris Gayle.
Seven of those came off Rashid Khan, who had never given up more than two sixes in an ODI before, and he brought up the record with a trademark straight drive that just reached the boundary rope.

25: Most team sixes in an ODI innings

Morgan’s 17 boundary-clearing strokes may have done most of the work but his teammates also chipped in to help England set the record for the most team maximums in an ODI.
Bairstow hammered three, Root struck one and Moeen Ali clubbed four in just nine balls as part of his scintillating 31-run cameo to give the hosts 25 in total.
They beat their own previous record of 24 – set against the West Indies earlier this year – and for context, 25 is three more than they have ever scored in an entire single ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup campaign before.

57 balls: England’s fastest century in an ODI

As his record number of sixes suggest, Morgan wasn’t hanging about at Old Trafford and brought up his century in just 57 balls – the quickest by an Englishman in an ODI.
It was also the fourth-fastest ton by a batsman of any nationality in an ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup match, with Kevin O’Brien’s historic 50-ball hundred in 2011 still the target, and Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers also having passed 100 more quickly in 2015.
The effort was all the more remarkable give the 32-year-old scored just one off the first seven balls he faced.

397: England’s highest total at an ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup

They may have fallen three runs short of the fifth 400-plus total accrued at a World Cup but their 397 was still England’s highest score in the history the tournament.
The previous record was only ten days old – the 386/6 they posted against Bangladesh in Cardiff – as the hosts once again demonstrated their firepower with willow in hand.
They may well have Australia’s World Cup-record score of 417/6, accumulated against Afghanistan in Perth four years ago, in their sights before the end of this year’s competition.

5: Most England centuries at an ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup

Morgan’s knock was England’s fifth ton of the competition, extending his country’s record of the most centuries they have hit at a World Cup.
England had never scored more than two hundreds in an edition before but with the skipper adding to Root’s two and one apiece for Jos Buttler and Jason Roy, that record has been blown out of the water this year.
When he fell for 88 off the bowling of Gulbadin Naib, Root was also just 12 runs short of becoming the first English batsman to score three centuries in one World Cup but for the time being remains level with Kevin Pietersen’s mark of two in 2007

193: Most career ODI sixes for England

Morgan also extended his advantage atop the leaderboard for ODI sixes hit for England, as his 17 maximums took his total to 193.
Buttler is currently his skipper’s nearest challenger, way back on 123, with charismatic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff third on the list with 92.
Morgan’s exploits against Afghanistan also lifted him to sixth on the all-time list for most ODI sixes with 211 (which includes his time representing Ireland) as he leapfrogged De Villiers, Brendon McCullum and Sachin Tendulkar in one fell swoop – not bad for a day’s work.

397: Highest score in an ODI at Old Trafford

Old Trafford isn’t historically a particularly high-scoring ground, as demonstrated by the fact that heading into the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, Sri Lanka’s 318/7 against England in 2006 was the greatest ODI total at the venue.
But that record has now been broken twice in three days with India racking up 336/5 against Pakistan on Sunday, before England almost immediately smashed that with their 397.
The latest contest was the 49th ODI held at the home of Lancashire, while the score by Morgan’s men has only been surpassed on 42 occasions in 135 years of the Manchester ground hosting Test matches.

Captain Eoin Morgan & England maul Afghanistan - the day in numbers

 

• Eoin Morgan's 17 sixes is a record for an ODI innings
• Morgan's 57-ball century was England's fastest in a World Cup, and their fifth fastest in ODIs
• England's 25 sixes is an ODI record
• England hit more sixes in one innings than they have managed in an entire World Cup campaign before Tuesday
• The 33 sixes in the match is a record for a World Cup match - and more than in the entire inaugural edition in 1975
• England's 397-6 is their highest World Cup total
• England have made five centuries in this tournament, their record at a World Cup
• Morgan and Root added 189 off 101 balls, of which Morgan made 142 and Root 43
• England scored 142 off the final 10 overs of their innings
• Rashid Khan's figures of 0-110 are the joint second worst in an ODI