National team’s fast bowler Shahin Afridi has not only broken Waqar Younis’31-year-old record of taking the most wickets in 48 One Day matches but hasalso equalled Australian pacer Mitchell Starc’s world record. In the WorldCup match against Australia, Shahin Afridi took 5 wickets for 54 runs,bringing his total wickets in One Day cricket to 95 with an average of23.17.
Former Kiwi pacer Shane Bond, with 92 wickets in 48 matches, is second inthis list, while Pakistan’s Waqar Younis and Australia’s Brett Lee, bothwith 88 wickets, share the third position. It’s worth noting that in the18th match of the World Cup, Australia set a target of 368 runs to defeatPakistan.
In the match played at Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium in Bangalore, Pakistan’snational team captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to field first.
From Australia’s side, David Warner and Mitchell Marsh started the innings.Osamah Mir dismissed David Warner for 10 runs. Later, both Australianopeners completed centuries, and the team reached a score of 214 runs.David Warner scored a century with 85 runs off 85 balls with 6 sixes and 7fours, while Mitchell Marsh scored a century with 10 sixes and 6 fours.
For Pakistan, Shahin Shah Afridi took the first wicket, securing 259 runsin 33.5 overs. Mitchell Marsh made 121 runs before getting out, and on thevery next ball, Glenn Maxwell was also caught at zero. Osamah Mir sentSteve Smith back for 7 runs.
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Pakistan achieved its fourth and significant breakthrough with the wicketof David Warner, who played a crucial innings of 124 runs off 163 ballswith 9 sixes and 10 fours. Josh Inglis scored 13 runs and became HarisRauf’s second victim.
Marcus Labuschagne, who scored 8 runs, became Haris Rauf’s third wicket.Shahin Afridi took the last two wickets in the first two balls of the finalover, dismissing Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, resulting in nineAustralian players getting out. The Australian team managed to score 367runs at the loss of 9 wickets in the allocated 50 overs. On Pakistan’sside, Shahin Afridi took 5 wickets, and Haris Sohail took 3 wickets.