Nottingham: Australia maintained their dominance on Bangladesh by handing them a 48 runs defeat in the 25th match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. All thanks to an extraordinary performance by opening batsman David Warner. While smashing hundred, Warner levelled the record with Virat Kohli for 2nd fewest innings to 16 centuries.
Many records tumbled this run-fest so let's have a look
- Most runs in WC match
Even though Bangladesh failed to chase down the target set by Australia they gave a tough fight. The team ended up 48 runs short chasing a mammoth total of 382. Both the teams in combine by scoring 714 broke the record for most runs in a WC match.
- Bangladesh's Ton
Bangladesh' wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim smashed 4th century by his side in the 2019 World Cup. This is the highest number of centuries by Bangladesh in WC. Earlier in 2015 WC, the Tigers managed to score 3 centuries.
- Mitchell Starc's wickets
Australia pacer Mitchell Starc broke the record of Legendary bowler Glenn McGrath of Most consecutive innings taking at least one wicket in the World Cup. McGrath held the record for doing it on 13 consecutive occasions while Starc did it for 14 times.
- Shakib Al Hasan's dream run
Bangladesh's star allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, who is at his peak has become the first player from his country to score 400 runs in a series/tournament in any format. Shakib has two tons in this world cup.
- David Warner 150* WC
World Cup 2019's highest run-getter David Warner becomes the first player to have scored two 150 plus scores in the history of World Cup. Warner has smashed two centuries in this edition.
- David Warner and big innings
David Warner now has the 2nd most number of 150 plus score in one-day international matches he has 6 150 plus scores while India's Rohit Sharma has 7 out of which 3 are double tons.
