Australia’s day at the Trent Bridge, a comfortable win, at top of the points table, Warner and Starc lead in batting and bowling chart. What else Australian fans want from the team at this stage of the tournament.
For the first time in this World Cup, Finch won the toss, and without giving a second thought, decided to bat first. The pitch, a dream to bat on, produced 381 runs for Australia.
Warner and Finch (51) opened the batting for Australia and yet again added a hundred run partnership for the team. Warner has been scoring runs consistently in the tournament and scored a splendid hundred, his second of the edition. During his 166, Warner became the first player to reach 400 runs in the competition and also became the highest run scorer of World Cup 2019. With Khawaja (89), Warner added 192 runs for the second wicket. Maxwell then murdered Bangladesh’s bowling attack as he smashed 32 runs in just ten balls helping Australia to reach their second highest score of World Cup history.
Watch: Australian Innings
The unstoppable @davidwarner31 continued his red-hot form with a magnificent 166 while @Uz_Khawaja and @AaronFinch5 were also among the runs.
Watch their best shots here!#CmonAussie | #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/QhElyUKFKv
— ICC (@ICC) June 20, 2019
Chasing a score of 381 is never easy, especially when you have to face Starc and Cummins. Although Bangladesh scored 333 for 8 in their 50 overs, the chase was never on. From the beginning, they required a run rate of around 8 in an over for the successful hunt, but they batted at six runs per over till 40th over, which meant they had to chase 140 odd runs in the last 60 balls. Even in the T20 age of cricket, the task was impossible to achieve. Shakib (41) had a rare failure, but he managed to cross the mark of 400 runs in the tournament. Rahim (102) and Mahmudullah (69) just completed the formality in the end.
Watch: Bangladesh Innings
The @BCBTigers provided plenty of entertainment in their run chase.
See their top shots! ???#RiseOfTheTigers | #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/ryMWwMm5Ec
— ICC (@ICC) June 20, 2019
STATS
- Shakib became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score 400 or more runs in a World Cup edition.
- Warner scored his 6th 150 or more runs in ODI. Only Rohit Sharma (7) has scored more 150+ runs in ODI innings.
- Warner 166 is his 16th ODI Hundred, only Ponting (29) and Mark Waugh (18) have scored more ODI hundreds for Australia.
- Starc has now 37 wickets in the World Cup, only McGrath (71) has more wickets than Starc for Australia in the World Cup.
- 714 runs were scored in the match by both teams, most in a World Cup match. Four of the top seven total aggregates have taken place in the current edition.
