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AUS vs BAN T20 World Cup : The race to reach the semi-finals has started among the Super-8 teams in the T20 World Cup 2024. Then in the 44th match, Australia faced Bangladesh. The match had to be stopped several times due to continuous rain, which benefited Australia. The Duckworth-Lewis rule was violated by Bangladesh. Amidst the rain interruption, the umpires declared Australia the winner by 28 runs on the basis of the Duckworth-Lewis rule.
The toss was also delayed
The toss was delayed due to rain and when the match started, Australia decided to bowl first. Batting first, Bangladesh team gave Australia a target of 141 runs to win. It kept raining continuously during Australia's batting. At one point Australia batted for 6.2 overs. After this Travis Head was out after scoring 31 runs and Mitchell Marsh was out after scoring 1 run.
Warner scored a half century
At the other end, David Warner continued to score runs and completed his half-century in 34 balls. As Australia's score reached 100, rain came again and the match could not proceed further eventually. The umpires declared Australia the winner on the basis of Duckworth Lewis rule. Australia scored 100 runs at the loss of two wickets in 11.2 overs.
Pat Cummins made history
Earlier, Pat Cummins took the first hat-trick of the T20 World Cup 2024 and demolished Bangladesh's batting line-up. Bangladesh had a bad start after being invited to bat first. Wickets started falling from the first over itself. The half-century partnership between captain Nazmul Hasan Shanto (41) and Liton Das made it seem that Bangladesh was making a comeback in the match, but Maxwell and Adam Zampa pushed Bangladesh on the backfoot by taking two consecutive wickets. In the end, Tauheed Hridaya tried to make a comeback by scoring 40 runs, but the rest of the work was done by Pat Cummins. Tauheed completed the hat-trick by taking two consecutive wickets in the 18th over and then on the first ball of the 20th over. Bangladesh scored 140 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.