In Hyderabad, during the final match, Babar Azam gave the ground staff agift and won their hearts. The captain of the national team, Babar Azam,also presented the Pakistan team’s jersey to the ground staff as a gift.
After a splendid victory against Sri Lanka, the players of the Pakistancricket team mingled with the stadium’s ground staff and took pictures withthem.
In the match played in Hyderabad, Pakistan achieved a target of 345 runsset by Sri Lanka, with a loss of 4 wickets in 48.1 overs. Pakistan’sbatsmen also set a record during the clash with Sri Lanka, achieving thehighest target in the history of World Cup matches.
Since the beginning of the one-day cricket World Cup in 1975, no team hadever successfully chased a target of 330 or more runs until now.
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The record for the highest target in World Cup history was previously heldby Ireland, who chased 328 runs against England in the 2011 World Cup.However, Pakistan has now broken this record by defeating Sri Lanka.Pakistan is the only cricket team in the history of the Cricket World Cupto successfully achieve a target of more than 330 runs.
It’s important to note that in the match played at Hyderabad’s Rajiv GandhiCricket Stadium, Sri Lanka’s openers once again failed to give the team agood start. Kusal Perera returned for a duck, and in the partnership forthe second wicket, Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Perera established a 102-runpartnership, but Nissanka was dismissed after scoring 51 runs.