Sports Top 10: In the T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian team played its first match against the Ireland team on June 5 at the New York ground. In this match, Team India gave a great performance in both bowling and batting. The Indian team first bundled out Ireland for just 96 runs in 16 overs and then achieved this target in 12.2 overs. In the match against Ireland, while Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah’s brilliance was seen with the ball, captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 52 runs with the bat. With this win, the Indian team has reached the first position in the points table of Group-A. At the same time, the Australian team has also started with a win in the T20 World Cup in which they won the match against Oman by 39 runs.
India beat Ireland by 8 wickets
After winning the toss in the match against Ireland at New York ground, Indian team decided to bowl first and bundled out the Irish team for 96 runs, in which Hardik Pandya took 3 wickets while Jaspreet Bumrah took 2 wickets. After this, Team India achieved the target of 97 runs in 12.2 overs at the loss of 2 wickets. While Captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 52 runs for India, Rishabh Pant also played an unbeaten innings of 36 runs in 26 balls.
Jaspreet Bumrah created history
Jasprit Bumrah has started the T20 World Cup 2024 with a maiden over. He bowled the sixth over of the innings in this match. This is Jasprit Bumrah’s 11th maiden over in T20I cricket. With this, he has become the bowler who has bowled the most maiden overs among the bowlers of a Test playing nation. He has left Bhuvneshwar Kumar behind. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has bowled 10 maiden overs in his T20I career. At the same time, Jasprit Bumrah has now overtaken him.
For the fourth time in the T20 World Cup, India restricted the opposition team to under 100 runs
Ireland’s team could bat only for 16 overs against Team India in this match. Indian bowlers bowled out Ireland for 96 runs. Let us tell you that this is only the fourth time in the T20 World Cup that Team India has bowled out the opposing team for under 100 runs. Earlier, Team India has done this feat against England, Scotland and Australia.
Rohit Sharma completed 600 sixes in international cricket
The Indian team led by Rohit Sharma registered a spectacular victory against Ireland in their first match in the T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, as soon as Rohit Sharma hit the third six during his 52-run innings, he completed his 600 sixes in international cricket. Before him, no player had been able to hit 600 sixes in international cricket. At the same time, Chris Gayle is at number two in this case. He has hit 553 sixes in international cricket.
Hardik Pandya equals Yuvraj Singh in a special record
Hardik Pandya’s record for Team India has been very good in ICC tournaments. After a bad IPL season recently, Hardik Pandya has now regained his old form in the T20 World Cup. Hardik Pandya did a great job in his first match in the T20 World Cup 2024 and equaled a big record of Yuvraj Singh. In fact, for Team India, Hardik Pandya has scored 500+ runs and also taken 30 wickets in the limited overs ICC tournament. He has become only the second Indian player to do so. Yuvraj Singh had done this before Hardik.
Ugandan player created history
In the T20 World Cup 2024, while the Ugandan team opened its account of victory by defeating Papua New Guinea by 3 wickets, in this match, 43-year-old Ugandan team player Frank Nsubuga made a big record with the ball. In the history of the T20 World Cup, Nsubuga has now become the most economical bowler in a spell of 4 overs. Before Nsubuga, this record was in the name of South African team’s fast bowler Enrique Norkhia, who took 4 wickets and gave 7 runs in his 4 overs in the match against Sri Lanka in the same World Cup.
Rohit Sharma gave an update on his injury
During the match against Ireland, due to the bounce on the pitch of New York ground, a ball of Irish fast bowler Joshua Little hit Rohit’s elbow. After this, Rohit retired hurt and returned to the pavilion, in which after the match he also gave an update about his injury and said that it is not very serious, there is just a slight pain due to which he decided to leave the field.
Rohit Sharma became India’s most successful captain in T20 International
Rohit Sharma has captained Team India in 55 T20 matches so far, out of which Team India has won 43 matches. At the same time, MS Dhoni had led Team India in 72 T20 matches. During this time, he won 42 matches. In such a situation, Rohit Sharma has overtaken MS Dhoni in this list. With one win, he has now become India’s most successful T20 captain.
Australia beat Oman by 39 runs
Under the captaincy of Mitchell Marsh, the Australian team started their campaign in the T20 World Cup 2024 with a spectacular victory, in which they won by 39 runs in the match against Oman in Group-B. In this match, the Kangaroo team batted first and scored 164 runs in 20 overs, in which David Warner scored 56 runs and Marcus Stynes scored 67 runs. On the other hand, the Oman team could only reach a score of 125 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. While Stynes took 3 wickets in bowling for Australia, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis and Adam Zampa took 2-2 wickets each.
Ravi Ashwin will take charge of Chennai Super Kings’ High Performance Center
India’s experienced off-spinner R Ashwin is set to take charge of Chennai Super Kings’ High Performance Center, thus paving the way for his return to this franchise. CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan said in one of his statements that Ashwin will take charge of the center as well as the team’s various academies in India and abroad. He said that Ashwin is one of the greatest players of India and Tamil Nadu and his presence will give a big boost to the High Performance Center and our academies. Let us tell you that this center is located on the outskirts of Chennai.
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