Points table 2023 World Cup:Things are suddenly looking somewhat positive for the Babar Azam-led Pakistan cricket team at the 2023 ODI Cricket World Cup. After losing four consecutive matches in the marquee event, the 1992 Cricket World Cup champions returned to victory with a seven-wicket win. Bangladesh in Calcutta Tuesday. The victory catapulted them to fifth place with three wins in seven games. And now they have more good news: New Zealand loses to South Africa in a Cricket World Cup match in Pune. (points table 2023 World Cup)
New Zealand lost the match to South Africa by 190 runs and finished fourth in the points table.
According to the current points table, South Africa and India are in the first two places with 12 points each. New Zealand is fourth (8 points, 7 matches, NRR +0.484), while Australia is third (8 points, 6 matches, NRR +0.970). Pakistan is ranked fifth (6 points, 7 matches, NRR -0.024) and Afghanistan is ranked sixth (6 points, 6 matches, NRR -0.718). New Zealand’s defeat puts them within touching distance of the next three teams in the points table.
Pakistan’s next two matches are against New Zealand and England. If they can win this one and other teams’ results go well, the team may have an outside chance of making it to the final four. However, Afghanistan and seventh-placed Sri Lanka (4 points, 6 matches, NRR -0.275) are also in contention. Afghanistan will then compete against the Netherlands, Australia and South Africa. Sri Lanka will next take on India, Bangladesh and New Zealand.
South Africa’s in-form opener Quinton de Kock on Wednesday hit his fourth hundred of the 2023 ICC World Cup and became the first batsman from his country to cross the 500-run mark in a World Cup edition.
Meanwhile, the 30-year-old opener achieved the milestone during a match against New Zealand at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, where he scored a sublime century.
With his ton against the Kiwis, De Kock also equaled Kumar Sangakkara’s record of four centuries in a single edition of the tournament. The Sri Lanka batsman hit four tons in the 2015 ODI World Cup.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma holds the top spot as he smashed five centuries in a single edition of the World Cup.
De Kock also equaled Adam Gilchrist and Sangakkara’s feat of most 50+ scores by a wicketkeeper in a single World Cup edition. De Kock (22) has hit the most number of sixes as a wicketkeeper-batsman in the ODI World Cup.
In an excellent display of batting in the 50-over tournament, De Kock hammered hundreds against Sri Lanka (100), Australia (109), Bangladesh (174) and New Zealand.
South Africa scored another huge total in the World Cup, this time against New Zealand, where they scored 357/4, building on the centuries of Rassie van der Dussen and De Kock.
With ANI inputs
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