LONDON – Bangladesh Cricket team makes historic record at the World Cupopener 2019.
Banladesh caused the first upset of World Cup 2019 when they defeated SouthAfrica by 21 runs at The Oval on Sunday. Bangladesh becomes the first Asianteam to win a game in this World Cup.
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan had lost their opening matches to WestIndies, New Zealand and Australia respectively. But Bangladesh weredetermined to showcase much better cricket and piled up 330 for 6 off their50 overs.
*SA vs BAN, ICC World Cup 2019: Live Cricket Scorelink*
Chasing 331, South Africa, who were without the experienced Hashim Amla,were banking heavily on Quinton de Kock and Faf du Plessis. But the targetwas a little too stiff for the Proteas.
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To be fair to South Africa, they were in the hunt for a while. Quinton deKock, Aiden Markram. Faf du Plessis, David Miller van der Dussen and JPDuminy got starts but they could not convert them into match-winning scores.
Pacers Mustafizur Rahman and Mohammad Saifuddin picked up five wicketsbetween them as they struck in regular intervals to dent South Africa’schase.
