Hello and welcome to our live coverage from the Match 13 of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 between New Zealand Afghanistan. While the 2015 finalists New Zealand have won both their matches, albeit in contrasting fashion, Afghanistan have lost theirs but have shown fight.
New Zealand crushed Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in their opening match before scraping past Bangladesh in their next contest that would have served as a wake-up call. On the other hand, Afghanistan lost to defending champions Australia before giving Sri Lanka a mighty scare having bowled them out for a low total in a rain-curtailed contest.
However, Afghanistan are without their opener and first-choice wicketkeeper Mohammad Shahzad to knee injury.
