Champions Trophy 2025, England vs Afghanistan Highlights: The eighth match of the Champions Trophy 2025 played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore was very exciting. Afghanistan won this exciting match. Afghanistan defeated England by 8 runs. Afghanistan scored 325 runs while playing first, while chasing this target, England was reduced to 325 runs. With this win, Afghanistan is now alive in the race for the semi-finals, while England is now out of this tournament.
The biggest hero of the Afghan team was Ibrahim Zadran, who played an unbeaten innings of 177 runs. Apart from him, captain Hasmatullah Shahidi, Mohammad Nabi and Azmatullah Umarzai also took the team to a big score with short innings. On the other hand, Joe Root played an innings of 120 runs for England.
Batting first in the eighth match of the Champions Trophy 2025, Afghanistan gave England a target of 327 runs. Ibrahim Zadran scored a brilliant century for Bangladesh. Zadran scored 177 runs which is his highest ODI score so far. Zadran shared a 103-run partnership with captain Hasmatullah Shahidi, helping Afghanistan score a big score of 325 runs for 7 wickets against England.
Zadran scored 177 runs in 146 balls while Shahidi added 40 runs in 67 balls. Afghanistan were down to 37 for 3 in the ninth over. England fast bowler Jofra Archer bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets for 64 runs in 10 overs.
