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Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Tips - Aussies get past into the semis

Jeremy Darke

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Last updated: 27 Feb 2025

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Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 predictions
First ball between Australia vs Afghanistan is at 8:00 PM AEDT, Friday, February 28 at Lahore
Significant performances expected from Glenn Maxwell and Josh Inglis.
Afghanistan's Ibrahim Zadran is in excellent form with a recent 177-run innings.
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Maxwell and Inglis key to Australia's win. (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Tips

Australia will do it tough but are predicted to sneak past the inspiring Afghanistan team, who are now a force to be reckoned with in international cricket.

Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Tips
Head to Head
Australia Form
Australia Squad
Afghanistan Form
Afghanistan Squad
Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Frequently Asked Questions

Afghanistan beat England for the second time in as many years in a major tournament, knocking them out of the semifinals and setting up a do-or-die encounter with Australia with the winner ensuring a place in the next round.

If the match is a washout, with showers predicted, Australia will qualify.

In this match with so much on the line you need to back the in-form men and there is none other than Glenn Maxwell at the top of this list after scoring 32* not out against England and his heroic 201 runs against Afghanistan in the World Cup, last time they met.

Josh Inglis is also the pick of the batters after his 120 runs against England, with no markets for Maxwell back Inglis to score over 30 runs in this match.

For Afghanistan, Ibrahim Zadran tore through England with a knock of 177 runs, so there is very good value at $1.83 for Zadran to score 25+ runs in the match.

Head to Head

Matches Played: 4

Australia: 4

Afghanistan: 0

Draw: 0

Australia won the most recent match by 3 wickets at the 2024 Cricket World Cup.
Australia have won all four ODI matches against Afghanistan.

Australia Form

The Australian’s match against South Africa was rained out without a ball being played, so they are still riding the confidence of a record-breaking victory over England, where Josh Inglis’ 120-run haul led the Aussies to the biggest run chase in ICC ODI history, reaching the Pom’s 351-run total with 15 balls to remaining.

The Aussies have an unbeaten record against Afghanistan, however, it was also a record breaking innings (if not the greatest in ODI innings in history) by Glenn Maxwell that got Australia out of a 7-91 hole when chasing 291 for victory.

Maxwell hit 201 runs from 128 balls, while suffering severe leg and back issues, with Pat Cummins keeping his wicket, hitting 12 from 68 to lead Australia to a famous victory with an astonishing 19 balls remaining.

Australia Squad

Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserve: Cooper Connolly.

Afghanistan Form

Afghanistan are once again turning heads and taking down the more famous and experienced nations, beating England for the second consecutive time, knocking the Poms out of the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025.

After a heavy 107-run loss to South Africa in their opening match, Afghanistan put up a big total against Ebgland with Ibrahim Zandra scoring 177 runs on their way to a total of 325/7.

It was then up to the Afghanistan bowlers to defend the very decent total and they got the job done on the second last ball of England’s innings, bowling out the Brits for 317 with Azmatullah Omarzai claiming 5 wickets, including the final one of Adril Rashid.

Afghanistan Squad

Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Farid Malik, Naveed Zadran. Reserves: Darwish Rasooli, Bilal Sami

Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Frequently Asked Questions

What time does Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 start?

First ball between Australia vs Afghanistan is at 8:00 PM AEDT, Friday, February 28

What channel is Australia vs Afghanistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 on?

You can watch Australia vs Afghanistan on Amazon Prime

Verdict

Afghanistan v Australia - One Day Match

Australia will get past Afghanistan with Josh Inglis scoring 30+ runs while Ibrahim Zadran will score 25+ for Afghanistan.

Australia

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