AUS VS AFG – Cricket fans witnessed the incredible courage of a cricketer on Tuesday during the Afghanistan and Australia World Cup match at Wankhede. Glenn Maxwell’s unbeaten inning of 201 runs. Got injured, came to physio twice, and was facing difficulty in scoring runs but Maxwell neither stopped nor got tired. Made a partnership of 202 runs for the 8th wicket and achieved the target of 292.
- With this courageous inning of Maxwell, Australia defeated Afghanistan by 3 wickets. The team had lost 7 wickets for 91 runs. From here, Maxwell chased the biggest run by making a record partnership of 201 runs unbeaten for the 8th wicket with Cummins.
- Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat, the team scored 291 runs for 5 wickets in 50 overs. Opener Ibrahim Zadran played an unbeaten inning of 129 runs. Australia achieved the target of 292 runs by losing 7 wickets in 46.5 overs. Glenn Maxwell scored a century from the team.
AUS Vs AFG: Australia reached the semi-finals
- Australia qualified for the semi-finals by defeating Afghanistan, while Afghanistan’s hopes of qualifying were now very low. Australia has 12 points from 6 wins in 8 matches and the team is in third place in the points table. Whereas Afghanistan has 8 points from 4 wins in 8 matches and the team remains at sixth position.
- Apart from Australia, South Africa and India have also qualified for the semi-finals. Whereas to qualify for the number-4 position, apart from Afghanistan, there is now a race between New Zealand, Pakistan, and the Netherlands.
3 big records broken due to Australia’s victory
- Highest score in ODI in run chase: Glenn Maxwell played the highest individual innings in the run chase. He scored an unbeaten 201 runs on 128 balls. Maxwell broke the record of Pakistani opener Fakhar Zaman (193 runs), which he had made against South Africa in 2021.
- Australia’s biggest run chase in the World Cup: Australia has made its biggest run chase in the World Cup. Earlier, the team’s biggest run chase was 287 runs, which the Kangaroo team did against New Zealand in the 1996 World Cup.
- Highest partnership at number 8 in ODI: The pair of Glenn Maxwell and captain Pat Cummins made an unbeaten partnership of 202 runs for the 8th wicket. This is the biggest partnership for the last three wickets in ODI. Maxwell-Cummins pair broke the record of Andrew Hall and Justin Camp. The South African pair had made an unbeaten 138-run partnership against India in Cape Town in 2006. At the same time, in the World Cup, the Australian pair broke the record of Kapil Dev and Syed Kirmani, which was made by the Indian pair against Zimbabwe during the 1983 World Cup. Kapil-Kirmani had made an unbeaten 126-run partnership for the 9th wicket.
AUS Vs AFG: Australia lost 4 wickets in Powerplay-1
- The Kangaroo team, which came to chase the target of 292 runs, had a bad start. The team lost the wicket of Travis Head in the second over at the score of 4 runs. From here Mitchell Marsh and David Warner took over the innings. Marsh was playing fast but he also became the victim of Naveen-ul-Haq in the sixth over. In the 9th over, fast bowler Azmatullah Omarzai got David Warner bowled and Josh Inglis caught in the slip on consecutive balls.
- Australia could score only 52 runs after losing 4 wickets in 10 overs of Powerplay-1. Warner scored 18 runs and Marsh scored 24 runs for the team. Whereas Head and English could not even open an account.
AUS Vs AFG: Afghanistan made its highest score in the World Cup
Afghanistan won the toss and batted first and scored 291 runs for 5 wickets in 50 overs. Team opener Ibrahim Zadran (129 runs) played a century. He scored the first century of the World Cup and the fourth century of his ODI career. He also became the first Afghan batsman to score a century in the World Cup. In the end, Rashid Khan played an inning of 35 runs on 18 balls at a strike rate of 194.44. He added an unbeaten 58 runs on 28 balls with Zadran.
Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets from the Australian team. Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell, and Adam Zampa got one wicket each.
AUS Vs AFG: Rashid made 35 on 18 balls
Afghan batsmen batted brilliantly in the death overs. The team scored 96 runs for 2 wickets in the last 10 overs. With the help of these runs, the team managed to set the target of 292 runs. Rashid Khan played an explosive inning of 35 runs on 18 balls. He made an unbeaten partnership of 58 runs on 28 balls with Zadran. Earlier, Zadran completed his and the team’s first World Cup century on 131 balls.
AUS Vs AFG: Afghanistan’s durable and slow batting in the middle overs
Afghanistan lost only 2 wickets between 11 and 40 overs. Opener Ibrahim Zadran played a durable innings. He made half-century partnerships with Rahmat Shah and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi. Based on these partnerships, the team lost 2 wickets in the middle overs while scoring 149 runs. Middle over in the next few points…
- Zadran crossed fifty. Ibrahim Zadran completed the sixth half-century of his ODI career in the 18th over of the innings. He scored the second 50-plus score in the ongoing World Cup. Zadran completed his fifty on 63 balls. He made half-century partnerships with Rahmat Shah and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi.
- Wickets of Rahmat-Shahidi Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc took the wickets of Rahmat Shah and Hashmatullah Shahidi in the 25th and 38th overs. Rahmat was out after scoring 30 and Shahidi after scoring 26 runs.
AUS Vs AFG: Afghanistan lost one wicket after scoring 46 runs in Powerplay-1
- Afghanistan made a steady start in the power play. Openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran batted defensively in the first two overs. Then made big shots on the bad ball. Good coordination was seen between the two.
- In the 7th over, Australian captain Pat Cummins turned to the spinner and handed the ball to Glenn Maxwell. Maxwell created pressure in his over and gave only 3 runs. Josh Hazlewood got the benefit of this pressure in the form of the wicket of Gurbaz. Gurbaz played a risky shot on the last ball of the 8th over and was caught by Mitchell Starc. The team scored 46 runs in the first 10 overs.
AUS Vs AFG: A Change in Afghanistan Team
Naveen Ul Haq got the place in place of Fazalhaq Farooqui in Afghanistan. There have been 2 changes in Australia’s playing eleven. Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh got a chance in place of Steve Smith and Cameron Green. Smith could not play due to injury, while Green was sat out due to poor performance.
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.
Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Ikram Alikhil (wk), Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Noor Ahmed and Naveen Ul Haq.
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