Afghanistan vs Australia Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024: Pat ...

AFG vs AUS Live Score, T20 World Cup Match Today: Get Afghanistan vs Australia Live Updates at St Vincent.

Afghanistan vs Australia Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Match Today: After being put into bat first by Australia, Afghanistan have posted a respectable total of 148 for 6 in a must-win game against Australia in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent.

There was turn, seam and swing at the surface and Afghanistan openers had a steady start as they managed 40 without loss at the end of the powerplay. Both Gurbaz and Zadran kept ticking the scoreboard and pressed on the accelerator after the halfway mark of Afghanistan’s innings and hit their respective fifties.

Cummins hat-trick

Australia managed to break the opening stand. Marcus Stoinis dismissed Gurbaz on 60 to break the 118-run opening stand. It allowed the Aussies to pull back things. Pat Cummins picked up a hat-trick, becoming the first player to pick up two hat-tricks in back-to-back games in T20 World Cup history. The poor fielding from Australia didn’t help them either. They will have to bat really well to chase this down.

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India have Jasprit Bumrah, who doesn’t mind going the slower-cutter route like the Aussies even with new ball. (AP)

Till the end of the eighth over, Bangladesh batsmen seemed at ease. At 57/1, with Litton Das and Najmul Hossain Shanto set, they were beginning to consolidate their position on a slow Antigua pitch that was gripping, offering some turn. It’s then that Australia’s seamers switched to the cutters and slower ones, even as leg-spinner Adam Zampa capitalised from the other end. Bangladesh innings never took off from then on as they managed only 140/8, which Australia overhauled comfortably by 28 runs via DLS as rain put full-stop to their chase.

If India were watching it, they couldn’t have got a better live demonstration of what they should be expecting from their next two opponents Bangladesh and Australia. India are scheduled to face Bangladesh at the same venue on Saturday and going by this game, it has all the making for a slugfest in these conditions. Having learned their lessons the hard way, Bangladesh won’t be any pushovers, particularly if the left-handed seamer Mustafizur Rahman puts his cutters to good use like Pat Cummins did in the second-half of the innings to complete the job started by Zampa. In Rishad Hossain, Bangladesh also have a leg-spinner with wicket-taking abilities in the middle-overs. (READ MORE)