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Sports Top 10: In the T20 World Cup, the Indian team will play against joint host USA in its third match of Group-A at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. Team India will be eyeing to secure its place in the Super 8 by winning this match. On the other hand, the Australian team has secured its place in the Super 8 by registering a big win by 9 wickets in the match against Namibia. Apart from this, Pakistan, after losing 2 consecutive matches in this tournament, has kept its hopes alive of reaching the next round by winning its third match played against Canada by 7 wickets.
India will face America’s team on New York ground
Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has shown a great performance in the T20 World Cup 2024, in which they won the matches against Ireland and Pakistan. Now Team India will face the US team. USA has also played 2 matches so far, in one of which they defeated Canada and in the second match they managed to defeat Pakistan. The Indian team is currently at the first position in the points table of Group-A with 4 points while USA is at number two.
Australia registered a one-sided 9-wicket win over Namibia
The Australian team has confirmed its place in Group B for the Super 8 with a one-sided 9-wicket win against Namibia in the match played at Antigua ground. In this match against Namibia, the Kangaroo team witnessed the amazing bowling of Adam Zampa in which he took 4 wickets giving away just 12 runs in his 4 overs due to which Namibia was restricted to a score of just 72 runs and Australia achieved this target in 5.4 overs at the loss of just 1 wicket.
Pakistan beat Canada by 7 wickets
An important match of the T20 World Cup was played between Pakistan and Canada at the New York ground. The Pakistani team won this match by 7 wickets. With this win, Pakistan has kept its hopes alive of reaching the Super 8 in the T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, Pakistan, bowling first, restricted the Canadian team to a score of 106 runs in 20 overs. After this, they achieved the target of 107 runs in 17.3 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. For Pakistan, Mohammad Rizwan played an important unbeaten innings of 53 runs in batting.
It is almost impossible for Sri Lankan team to reach Super 8
The 23rd match of the T20 World Cup 2024 was to be played between Sri Lanka and Nepal at the Florida ground, but the match was canceled due to rain. After the cancellation of this match, it has become almost impossible for the Sri Lankan team to reach the Super 8. They will have to depend on the results of other matches to make it to the next round. The Sri Lankan team is at the bottom of the points table of Group D in which they have played 3 matches so far and have lost 2 of them.
Shaheen Afridi’s name added to a shameful record in T20 World Cup
During the match between Pakistan and Canada in the T20 World Cup, an embarrassing record was registered in the name of Pakistan’s star bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi. Shaheen Afridi has become the first bowler in the history of the T20 World Cup against whom two fours were hit on the first two balls of the innings. Canada team’s opening batsman Aaron Johnson did this feat against Shaheen Afridi.
African batsman gave a shocking statement about New York pitch
So far, it has been very difficult for batsmen to score runs on the pitch of Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. Now, South African team’s explosive batsman Heinrich Klaasen has given a big statement about the pitch here, in which he has said that if you want to show the world and are looking for a market here, then I don’t think it will be possible to do so in such conditions. This is a tough tournament in terms of cricket. This has reduced the gap between the top teams and other teams. This aggressive batsman said that batsmen would not like to play on such a pitch, whereas bowlers would like to play on such pitches. ICC has already accepted that these pitches are not what it had expected.
Babar Azam told why he threw his bat in anger
After the 7-wicket win against Canada, Pakistan team captain Babar Azam expressed happiness over the team’s victory, while he also revealed why he threw his bat in anger after getting out. Babar told after the match that he got out on the same shot that he played in the match against India and got out. After this he said that that is why he was angry.
Anrique Norkhia equals Umar Gul’s record
The South African team has shown a great performance in the T20 World Cup 2024, in which they have played 3 group matches so far and won all of them. Fast bowler Enrique Norkhia has also contributed significantly to this performance of the African team, who also took 2 wickets in the match against Bangladesh. With this, Norkhia equaled the record of former Pakistan team fast bowler Umar Gul for taking the most wickets against a team in the history of the T20 World Cup. While Norkhia now has 9 wickets in the history of this tournament against Bangladesh, Umar Gul also took a total of 9 wickets against New Zealand in the T20 World Cup. At number one in this list is former Sri Lankan team player Ajantha Mendis who has taken 13 wickets against the West Indies.
Mohammad Rizwan scored the slowest half-century in the history of T20 World Cup
In the match against Canada, Pakistan won by 7 wickets in which Mohammad Rizwan scored 53 runs. In this match, Rizwan faced a total of 52 balls to complete his half-century, after which he has registered the record of scoring the slowest half-century in the history of T20 World Cup. Before Rizwan, this record was in the name of David Miller, who had completed his half-century in 50 balls in the match against Netherlands at New York ground a day earlier.
These two teams are out of the race for Super 8 in T20 World Cup
A total of 20 teams are participating in the T20 World Cup 2024, out of which only 8 teams will be able to secure their place in the next round. While South Africa and Australia have made their place in the Super-8, Oman and Namibia are now out of this race. Both the teams are part of Group-B, in which Oman lost all three matches after playing three matches, while Namibia has lost 2 after playing 3 matches.
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