World Cup; Sensational wins by Australia and the Netherlands, defeats by New Zealand and Bangladesh

 

 

World Cup; Sensational wins by Australia and the Netherlands, defeats by New Zealand and Bangladesh

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In the World Cup, Australia and the Netherlands won their respective matches sensationally, New Zealand and Bangladesh were defeated. According to the details, in the 27th match of the ICC World Cup 2023,

Australia defeated New Zealand by 5 runs and in the semifinal Brightened the hopes of reaching while the Netherlands defeated Bangladesh by 87 runs in the 28th match.

 

 

In the match played in Dharamsala, New Zealand invited Australia to bat by winning the toss. New Zealand’s decision to invite Australia to bat did not turn out well and the Australian batsmen scored 388 runs and 389 while batting aggressively. Set a target of runs, in reply the New Zealand team managed to score 383 runs for 9 wickets

in the allotted 50 overs. The two teams scored a total of 758 runs, making it the highest scoring match between Australia and New Zealand. Before this, in 2007, a total of 696 runs were scored in the match between the two teams. Chasing Australia’s target of 389 runs, Rachin Ravindra was the leading batsman for New Zealand with 116

off 89 balls, while Daryl Mitchell and Jimmy Neesham with 54 and 56 were part of the team’s winning efforts. From Australia, Adam Zampa took 3 wickets, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets, while one wicket went to Glenn Maxwell. Earlier, Australian openers David Warner and Travis Head put on a partnership of 175,

Warner returning to the pavilion after scoring 81 runs, his innings included 6 sixes and 5 fours. After that, Travis Head left the field after playing an innings of 109 runs on a total of 200, he hit 7 sixes and 10 fours during his

batting. Glenn Maxwell, the fastest century maker of the previous match from Australia, was the prominent

batsman with 41, Joe Shaw Ingles 38, Pat Cummins 37 runs. New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips and Trent Boult took 3, 3, Mitchell Santner 2 and Jimmy Neesham 1 wicket.

In the last over, New Zealand needed 19 runs to win and Trent Boult took a run on the very first ball and handed over the strike to Neesham. In this pressure-filled match, Starc bowled a yorker wide and the ball crossed the boundary in the blink of an eye. Australia now needed 13 runs off 5 balls and the Kiwi batsman took two runs off

the next three balls and thus New Zealand needed 7 runs off the last two balls to win. Starc’s full toss failed to get

the ball past Neesham’s boundary and returned to the pavilion trying to get another run, scoring 58 runs with 3 sixes and 3 fours. The New Zealand team could not score any runs on the last ball of the match and Australia won by 5 runs in a nerve-wracking match and paved the way to reach the semi-finals. In the 28th match of the Royal

Cup, the Netherlands easily defeated Bangladesh by 87 runs and caused another upset in the event.
The Netherlands won the toss and decided to bat first in this match played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

The Bangladeshi bowlers used their experience to send the Dutch openers back to the pavilion for a total of 4. The middle order put up a solid fight against the Bangladeshi bowlers,

where captain Scott Edwards played an innings of 68 runs while Wesley Bracey scored 41 runs and Sebrand Engelbrecht scored 35 runs. The Netherlands team was all out after scoring 229 runs in the allotted 50 overs.

Shoraful Islam, Tasin Ahmad, Mustafizur Rehman and Mehdi Hasan took two wickets each while Shakib Al Hasan took one wicket for Bangladesh. In pursuit of the target, the Bangladeshi batting line-up faltered and none of the players could stay on the wicket for long.

The Pakistan cricket team has reached Kolkata to play their seventh match in the World Cup. The next match of the Pakistani team is against Bangladesh on October 31, for which they will train on October 30.

Pakistan cricket team played matches against Afghanistan and South Africa during their one week stay in Chennai.