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Australia made the highest powerplay score: beat Scotland by 7 wickets

Published - 5-SEP-2024 6:57 IST | Updated - 5-SEP-2024 6:57 IST

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Australia team proved to be too much for Scotland in the first T20 match held in Edinburgh. Scotland, batting first, somehow scored 154 runs in 20 overs. This score proved to be so small for Australia that the team scored 155 runs in 9.4 overs.

From the Australia team, Travis Head scored 80 runs in 25 balls and captain Mitchell Marsh scored 39 runs in 12 balls. Australia scored 113 runs in the powerplay, which is the highest score in T20 International.

Australia won the toss and chose to field

The Kangaroo team is currently on a tour of Scotland and England. In the first match of the 3 T20 series against Scotland, the team won the toss and chose to field on Wednesday. Scotland lost the wicket of Ollie Hairs in the second over itself. He was sent to the pavilion by Xavier Bartlett.

Scotland captain Richie Berrington scored 23 runs. After the first wicket fell early, opener George Munsey scored 28, Brendon McMullen 19, Richie Berrington 23 and Matthew Cross 27 runs to take the team past 100 runs. In the end, Mark Watt scored 16 and Jack Jarvis scored 10 runs to take the team to 154 for the loss of 9 wickets.

5 batsmen from Scotland could not even touch the 10-run mark. Sean Abbott took 3 wickets from Australia. Xavier Bartlett and Adam Jampa got 2-2, while Cameron Green and Riley Meredith got 1-1 wickets.

Adam Jampa took 2 wickets.

22-year-old young batsman Jack Fraser-Magark made his debut from Australia. However, he could not do anything special and got out on zero even after playing 3 balls. He was sent to the pavilion by Brendon McMullen. After the first wicket fell early, Travis Head and captain Mitchell Marsh took over the innings.

Made the biggest powerplay score

Head started scoring runs rapidly along with Marsh. 13 runs were scored in the second over, 20 in the third over, 19 in the fourth over, 30 in the fifth over and 26 in the sixth over. The team scored 113 runs in 6 overs, this is the biggest powerplay score in T20 International.

Australia broke the record of South Africa, which scored 102 runs against West Indies in March last year. West Indies also has the record of scoring 98 runs inside the powerplay in 2021.

Mitchell Marsh along with Travis Head made a record score of 113 runs in the powerplay.

From the fifth ball of the fourth over to the sixth over, Head and Marsh hit 14 consecutive boundaries. Together they hit 5 sixes and 9 fours. Head scored 36 and Marsh scored 30 runs. During this, 30 runs were scored in Jack Jarvis' over and 26 runs in Brad Wheel's over.

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