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Australia paceman Pat Cummins took a hat-trick for a second match in a row at the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday, dismissing three Afghan batsmen in successive deliveries after doing the same against Bangladesh on Thursday.
The Afghanistan cricket team secured its first-ever victory against Australia, in any format of the game, beating the former champions by 21 runs in the Super 8 round of the T20 World Cup 2024. Generally considered as a side with world-class spinners, it was the pace bowling unit that led Afghanistan to victory this time, with Gulbadin Naib claiming 4 wickets, producing the Player of the Match show. While Afghanistan kept their semi-final hopes alive with the win, the result also gave their Super 8 Group a big twist.
Bangladesh's seasoned all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan became the first player to take 50 wickets in the T20 World Cup. On a night when Bangladesh were outplayed in all facets of the game by their neighbours, India, Shakib managed to etch his name in the history books. Shakib was expensive in his three-over spell, giving away 37 runs at an economy of 12.30. His sole wicket in the game was of Indian skipper Rohit Sharma. The 37-year-old lured Rohit to slog the ball away. He pulled out a thick outside edge, and the ball landed safely in the hands of Jaker Ali.
Australia had a dominating day with the ball during their T20 World Cup 2024, Super 8 match against Afghanistan in Kingstown. Asked to bat first, Afghanistan had a brilliant start as their Rahmanullah Gurbaz (60) and Ibrahim Zadran (51) stitched an 118-run partnership. Later, Mitchell Marsh and Co bounced back in style and scalped quick wickets to restrict Afghanistan to 148/6 in 20 overs. However, the day entirely belonged to pacer Pat Cummins, who created history with his back-to-back hattricks in the ongoing tournament.
Hardik Pandya's downward spiral started last year against Bangladesh in a 50-over World Cup game but the star all-rounder always believed that fortune favours the brave if they hang around. First it was back-to-back injuries that kept him out for four months and then a very rocky two months in the IPL as MI skipper, there was no silver lining for India's best all-rounder in contemporary times until this T20 World Cup, where regained his mojo.
Hardik Pandya's batting always puts “India in a good stead”, skipper Rohit Sharma reiterated the ability of his team's biggest ‘X-Factor' in white-ball cricket after his fifty against Bangladesh all but put 'Men in Blue' into the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. Pandya, who scored the first half-century by an Indian No. 6 in a T20 World Cup game, also took a wicket in the team's 50-run Super 8s win against Bangladesh here on Saturday. Pandya has so far scored 89 runs in three innings with a strike-rate of 141, besides taking eight wickets.
Veteran Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan hit out at the Tigers' lack of "fight" after a 50-run rout by India effectively ended their T20 World Cup dreams. Saturday's mauling was Bangladesh's second defeat in the Super Eights after an opening loss to Australia. "We were always thinking that we came to do something good and we will do it," said former skipper Shakib who was playing in his 128th T20 international. "But if you look at the result or the performance on the ground, actually we couldn't show any fight in that way. It's disappointing."
India continued their winning momentum in the ongoing T20 World Cup as they defeated Bangladesh in a Super 8 match on Saturday. Asked to bat first, India posted a whopping total of 196/5 with vice-captain Hardik Pandya smashing a half-century. Later, Kuldeep Yadav's three-wicket haul and the contributions from other bowlers helped Rohit Sharma and Co restrict Bangladesh to 146/8 and claim a win by 50 runs. As India put up a dominating show, skipper Rohit Sharma looked a bit stress-free during Bangladesh's chase and ended up giving a hilarious moment to his fans.