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Afghanistan has defeated Australia in the T20 World Cup 2024. This is being considered the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Earlier, host USA defeated Pakistan in the Super Over. The Australian team has suffered a humiliating defeat against Afghanistan. The team's batting, bowling and fielding have all been poor. After this defeat, Australia's path to reach the semi-finals has also become difficult.
Poor fielding is the biggest reason
The Australian team is known for its strong fielding. But in this match, the team's poor fielding became the biggest reason for its defeat. Australia's fielding against Afghanistan was very ordinary. In the entire match, the Australian players dropped 5 easy catches. This also includes the catch of Ibrahim Zadran. Ibrahim Zadran played an innings of 51 runs. After the team's defeat, the Australian captain said that Afghanistan scored 20 more runs, if these runs were not there, we would have won the match. If the Australian players had taken the catch, the score of the Afghanistan team would have been less.
The batsmen cheated
Afghanistan had given a target of 149 runs to Australia. It was believed that Australia would achieve this target easily. But Travis Head, who came to start the innings, lost his wicket on the very first ball. In 5.1 overs, 3 Australian players returned to the pavilion. However, by this time the team's score was only 32 runs. After this, the process of falling wickets continued and Australia kept losing its wickets continuously. For Australia, Glenn Maxwell scored 59, Mitchell Marsh scored 12 and Marcus Stoinis scored 11 runs. Apart from this, no batsman of the team could touch the double digit figure. Australia lost its last 5 wickets for just 42 runs.
bowlers disappointed
Apart from batting and fielding, the bowlers of the Australian team also performed disappointingly. Afghanistan's opener batsmen Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran shared a 118-run partnership. Australia had to wait for 15.5 overs to take the first wicket. If the Australian bowlers had been successful in taking Afghanistan's wicket, the score could have been lower. However, after the first wicket, the Afghanistan team soon lost 5 more wickets. Meanwhile, Pat Cummins also took a hat-trick of wickets.