Australia won with Maxwell's double century: Afghanistan lost despite losing 7 wickets for 91 runs

Australia won with Maxwell's double century: Afghanistan lost despite losing 7 wickets for 91 runs.

During the Afghanistan and Australia match at Wankhede, cricket fans saw such courage of a cricketer, which cannot be easily trusted. Glenn Maxwell, who played an unbeaten inning of 201 runs.

He got injured, came to physio twice, was facing difficulty in scoring runs but Maxwell neither stopped nor got tired. Afghanistan had given a target of 292. Maxwell limped along and made a partnership of 202 runs for the 8th wicket and won the match in the 47th over.

Earlier, the Australian team had lost 7 wickets for 91 runs. From here, the Kangaroos' victory seemed impossible, but Maxwell stood firm. On the basis of this inning, Australia made its biggest run chase in the tournament, while Maxwell scored the first double century of run chase in World Cup history.

After winning the toss, Afghanistan chose to bat first and scored 291 runs for 5 wickets in 50 overs. Opener Ibrahim Zadran played an unbeaten inning of 129 runs.

Australia reached semi-finals

Australia qualified for the semi-finals by defeating Afghanistan, while Afghanistan's hopes of qualifying were now very low. Australia has 12 points from 6 wins in 8 matches and the team is at third place in the points table. Whereas Afghanistan has 8 points from 4 wins in 8 matches and the team remains at sixth position.

Apart from Australia, South Africa and India have also qualified for the semi-finals. Whereas to qualify for the number-4 position, apart from Afghanistan, there is now a race between New Zealand, Pakistan and Netherlands.

Big records broken due to Australia's victory

Highest score in ODI in run chase: Glenn Maxwell played the highest individual innings in run chase. He scored unbeaten 201 runs on 128 balls. Maxwell broke the record of Pakistani opener Fakhar Zaman (193 runs), which he had made against South Africa in 2021.

Australia's biggest run chase in the World Cup Australia has made its biggest run chase in the World Cup. Earlier, the team's biggest run chase was 287 runs, which the Kangaroo team did against New Zealand in the 1996 World Cup.

The biggest partnership at number 8 in ODI was the pair of Glenn Maxwell and captain Pat Cummins who made an unbeaten partnership of 202 runs for the 8th wicket. This is the biggest partnership for the last three wickets in ODI. Maxwell-Cummins pair broke the record of Andrew Hall and Justin Camp. The South African pair had made an unbeaten 138-run partnership against India in Cape Town in 2006. At the same time, in the World Cup, the Australian pair broke the record of Kapil Dev and Syed Kirmani, which was made by the Indian pair against Zimbabwe during the 1983 World Cup. Kapil-Kirmani had made an unbeaten 126-run partnership for the 9th wicket.

54 out of 60 runs were scored from boundaries in the death overs.

Glenn Maxwell got injured during the middle overs of the innings and was not able to score runs. In such a situation, Glenn started scoring runs from the boundary. Glenn scored 54 out of 60 runs through boundaries in the last 6.1 overs. The team did not lose any wicket in the death overs and scored 60 runs.

Afghan bowlers could not dismiss Maxwell and Cummins, catch drop proved costly.

In the initial phase of the middle overs, the Afghan bowlers put good pressure on the Australians. The Kangaroo team lost 3 wickets in scoring 43 runs between the 11th and 19th overs. Australia's score after the 19th over was 95/7. Here it seemed that Australia would be all out in a few overs, but Maxwell did not give up

He kept Australia in the match by playing a one-sided innings. After 40 overs the team's score was 232/7. Kangaroo team scored 180 runs after losing 3 wickets in the middle 30 overs. Here Maxwell had scored 147 runs. Maxwell's catch draw proved costly for the Afghan team. Maxwell had two catches dropped in the middle overs.