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Aus vs Zim: Zimbabwe beat Australia for the second time in T20 WC, Laze-Dung-Headed Greens to handle the Blessings, Zimbabwe rub the face of the world number two team
Kolkata: The seventh day of the T20 WC saw the first incident of the ICC T20 World Cup. Zimbabwe beat Australia by 23 runs in T20 World Cup A disoriented Ujira virtually surrendered to the bowling of Zimbabwe’s Blessings Mujerbani at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Australia could not even play 20 overs 19. Australia fell full stop in the innings for 146 runs in 3 overs
Australia won the toss and sent Zimbabwe to bat Zimbabwe lost 2 wickets and scored 169 runs in 20 overs Zimbabwean opener Brian Bennett scored 64 runs off 56 balls Wicketkeeper Marumani scored 35 runs off 21 balls Ryan Bury scored 35 off 30 balls Captain Sikander Reza scored 25 off 13 balls
Australia’s bowlers did not allow the Zimbabwean batsmen to score too many wickets. Mark Stoanis and Cameron Green took one wicket each Australia needs only 170 to win, Travis Head came to bat with the idea
On this day, eight batsmen could not reach double figures in the innings Opener Jos English failed to score 8, skipper Travis Head collected 17 runs from just 15 balls. Then Cameron Greene and Tim David took the road to the pavilion Australia’s run at this time was 29 runs for 4 wickets Glenn Maxwell and Matt Renshaw then took the team’s score to a modest level Ajira reached 106 for 5 wickets from 29 for 4 wickets At this time, it seemed that Australia might get the desired victory after overcoming the initial shock No, he is sand
Maxwell scored 31 off 32 balls Renshaw’s innings of 65 off 44 balls His innings was decorated with 5 fours and 1 six Australia’s tail end collapsed again like a house of cards when the pair of Maxwell-Renshaw broke None of the last five batters hit double-digit home runs
Blessing Mujerbani and Brad Evans took 4 and 3 wickets respectively Australia’s proud batsmen completely failed to judge the balls of these two strong bowlers on a Sri Lankan pitch which is mainly spin-friendly. As a result, Zimbabwe won the match as a qualified team
Kolkata, West Bengal
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