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Sports Top 10: In the Super 8 of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian team will play its second match against the Bangladesh team today at the ground in Antigua. Team India had earlier won by 47 runs against Afghanistan in its first match. At the same time, Bangladesh had to face defeat against Australia in its first match of Super 8. South Africa won the match against England by 7 runs in which the England team got a target of 164 runs, but they were able to score only 156 runs.
Indian team will face the challenge of Bangladesh
Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team’s winning campaign has been seen so far in the T20 World Cup 2024. Team India will play against Bangladesh in its second match in the Super 8 at the ground of Antigua. In this match, the Indian team will be eyeing victory so that its place for the semi-finals can be almost confirmed. Team India is currently at the second position with 2 points in the points table of Group A of Super 8, in which Australia is at the first position.
South Africa beat England and move towards the semi-finals
In Group 2 of the Super 8 round of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the South African team defeated the England team by 7 runs and moved towards the semi-finals. In this match, South Africa batted first and scored 163 runs for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs, in which Quinton de Kock played an innings of 65 runs. In response to this target, the England team could only score 156 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 7 runs. The England team remained in the match till the 18th over, but the African bowlers bowled brilliantly in the last overs and gave their team victory.
West Indies team defeated America one-sidedly by 9 wickets
The West Indies team opened their account of victory in Super 8 with the match played against USA, in which they won by 9 wickets. In this match, USA team batting first was all out at a score of 128 runs in 19.5 overs, in reply to which the Windies team achieved this target in just 10.5 overs at the loss of one wicket. From the West Indies team, Shai Hope showed his magic with the bat and played an excellent unbeaten innings of 82 runs in just 39 balls.
Anrich Norkhia broke a 12-year-old record in the T20 World Cup
In the match against England, Anrich Norkhia took 1 wicket giving away 35 runs in his 4 overs. By taking this wicket, Norkhia managed to break Graeme Swann’s 12-year-old record in the history of T20 World Cup. Norkhia has now managed to take at least one wicket in 16 consecutive innings in the history of this tournament. Earlier this record was in the name of Graeme Swann who had taken at least one wicket in 15 consecutive innings in the T20 World Cup.
Batting coach answered on Virat Kohli’s batting order
Before the match against Bangladesh, Team India’s batting coach Vikram Rathore, while answering the question asked in the press conference about Virat Kohli’s batting position, said that it seems that you guys are not happy with Kohli opening the innings? I thought everyone wanted Kohli to start the innings. We are not thinking about this at all. We are very happy with our batting order and if there is any change in it, it will be taken keeping in mind the opposition team and the circumstances.
PCB may bring new rule to protect players from allegations
The controversial Pakistan Cricket Board is considering using a new defamation rule to deal with unverified claims and news. The PCB is considering legal action against these unverified news. The PCB will use this new defamation law against digital and mainstream media which have been accusing Pakistani players of corruption in the World Cup or making personal comments about them.
David Warner left Rohit behind in this record
David Warner played an unbeaten innings of 53 runs in 35 balls in this match played against Bangladesh. During this, 3 sixes and 5 fours were seen from his bat. With this, his total number of sixes in the T20 World Cup has now become 40 and he has surpassed Rohit Sharma in the list of hitting the most sixes in the T20 World Cup. Rohit Sharma has hit 39 sixes in the T20 World Cup so far. Chris Gayle is at the first place in this list who has hit a total of 63 sixes in the T20 World Cup.
Indian team will tour South Africa
After the completion of the 3-match Test series at home against New Zealand, the Indian team will tour South Africa to play a 4-match T20 series. The first match of this series will be played on November 8 while the last match will be played on November 15. The schedule of this tour was announced by Cricket South Africa on June 21. After the completion of this series, Team India will tour Australia where it has to play a 5-match Test series.
The list of retained players for the next season of ILT20 has been revealed
The third season of the International League T20 will be played from 11 January to 9 February in 2025. All the matches of this league are to be played in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. 6 teams will be seen playing in this league. These teams have announced the names of their retained players. Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Nicholas Pooran, David Warner and Mohammad Aamir are among the 69 players retained by the teams. At the same time, last season’s champion MI Emirates has retained star players like captain Pooran, Dwayne Bravo, Akeel Hosein, Kieron Pollard and Fazalhaq Farooqui. But star fast bowler Trent Boult has not been retained.
Nicholas Pooran broke Chris Gayle’s record of sixes
In the Super 8 match against USA, West Indies team’s explosive batsman Nicholas Pooran played an unbeaten innings of 27 runs in 12 balls which included 3 sixes. With this, Pooran has now become the player who has hit the most sixes in a single edition of the T20 World Cup. Earlier this record was in the name of Chris Gayle who had hit a total of 16 sixes in the T20 World Cup played in the year 2012.
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