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The University Oval in Dunedin will be the venue for two teams who have never won a World Cup game in Afghanistan and Scotland as they go head to head from 9:00am AEDT on Thursday. You can follow the live scores of that game here at The Roar.
It’s not been an easy start for these two teams, having lost both their opening two games.
Scotland are in their third World Cup and are yet to win a match out of the 10 they have played. Eight of those games came in the 1999 and 2007 editions while the remaining two have been in this one.
Afghanistan are playing in their first ever World Cup, and theirs has been a romantic story, worth repeating over and over again. For a war-torn country to qualify for the World Cup is no mean achievement and they will now hope to cap it off with a win against Scotland.
It’s interesting that Scotland, after their efforts in pushing New Zealand to the wall, fell away dramatically in their game against England. England piled up 303 for eight from their 50 overs and Scotland, who were expected to give their opposition a run for their money, mustered just 182 in reply.
At least Afghanistan have had one decent game in which they could have even beaten a Test-playing nation in Sri Lanka. After going down easily to Bangladesh, Afghanistan had Sri Lanka in a lot of trouble when they reduced them to 51 for reply chasing 233 for a win.
It was only Afghanistan’s inexperience towards the end of the Sri Lankan chase that kept them from shocking their opponents.
Dawlat Zadran should retain his place in the side after bowling economically in their second game of the competition. Also looking to build on his half-century from the previous game, Asghar Stanigzai, will hope to build on that form.
Scotland have batted poorly over two games and will hope to change things around for this game. Calum MacLeod needs to get going at the top of the order while Matt Machan and Kyle Coetzer are a couple to look out for.
You can follow the live score of this Afghanistan v Scotland World Cup 2015 encounter from 9 am AEDT on Thursday and post your comments in the section below.
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