Today’s match in the ODI World Cup featured Yellow (gold) against Orange – Australia against the Netherlands. This post is mainly devoted to that match. I did not get to follow anything of yesterday’s match due to work commitments. When I posted on Monday Afghanistan were going well in pursuit of 283 to beat Pakistan. They kept up their good start and won by eight wickets.
THE AUSTRALIAN INNINGS
Pat Cummins won the toss, and decided that Australia would bat first. Although Mitchell Marsh fell early, Australia as a whole batted very well, and an amazing innings from Glenn Maxwell late on, which saw reach three figures off just 40 balls boosted the Australian total to 399 from their 50 overs. Bas de Leede earned an unfortunate place in the record books – his ten overs went for 115, the most ever conceded in a 10 over allocation in an ODI. This record has previously been jointly held by two Australians, Mick Lewis (Johannesburg 2006) and Adam Zampa, who was playing for Australia today, each of whom went for 113 from 10 overs in an ODI innings.
THE NETHERLANDS RESPONSE
The Netherlands crumbled in the face of an all but impossible challenge. At no stage did they look capable of even offering serious resistance, and they ultimately sank to 90 all out and defeat by 309 runs. Adam Zampa took four late wickets for just eight runs.
PHOTOGRAPHS
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Australia dominated the match, great photo gallery!
Thank you.