On Saturday in the T20 World Cup match, fans witnessed four different exciting different kinds of matches. For the whole day, the Cricket arch-rivals faced each other and made the day filled with full of entertainment. In the first half, NewZealand faced Afghanistan at the very first in Guyana, and then the rivals Sri Lanka and Bangladesh faced each other in Dallas. In the evening, fans witnessed another two enthralling matches as South Africa and the Netherlands faced each other in New York and one the biggest cricket rivals Australia and England clashed with each other in Barbados.
Bowling Performance of Afghanistan and New Zealand Bowlers:
Right after winning the toss, New Zealand opted to bowl first but at first, they didn’t impress at first and conceded a lot of runs in the middle of the 15th overs. Then they picked up a couple of wickets towards the end. Trent Boult and Matt Henry picked up 2 wickets each respectively. Also, Lockie Ferguson also picked up a wicket and restricted Afghanistan to 159 runs.
On the other end, when Afghanistan came to defend the total, they were seen in different forms as they rattled whole New Zealand batting lineups. Once again, Fazalhaq Farooqi shined like in the previous game as he took 4 wickets. With him, skipper Rashid Khan also picked up 4 important wickets. The rest two wickets were taken by Mohammad Nabi. With that, they finished New Zealand’s innings at only 75 runs.
Brief Score: Afghanistan 159/6 in 20 overs (Rahmanullah Gurbaz 80, Ibrahim Zadran 44, Fazalhaq Farooqi 4/17, Rashid Khan (c) 4/17)
New Zealand: 75/10 in 15.2 overs (Glenn Phillips 18, Matt Henry 12, Trent Boult 2/22, Matt Henry 2/37)
Bowling Performance of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka:
After winning the toss, Bangladesh decided to bowl against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh took a couple of early wickets of Sri Lanka and eventually later on they tried to balance their innings. After that also, Bangladesh kept taking wickets in between and restricted Sri Lanka to 124 runs. Mustafizur Rahman and Rishad Hossain took 3 wickets each. Taskin Ahmed also picked up 2 wickets.
While defending, Sri Lanka started off really well, took a couple of wickets at early stage. They tried the best to defend but Bangladesh batters took the game away from them and eventually won by 2 wickets. Nuwan Thushara picked up 4 wickets, skipper Wanindu Hasaranga took 2 wickets. Matheesha Pathirana and Dhananjaya de Silva got one wicket each.
Brief Score: Bangladesh: 125/8 in 19 overs ( Towhid Hridoy 40 (20), Litton Das 36 (38), Mustafizur Rahman (3/17) Rishad Hossain (3/22))
Sri Lanka: 124/9 in 20 overs ( Pathum Nissanka 47 (28), Dhananjaya de Silva 21 (26), Nuwan Thushara 4/18)
Bowling Performance of South Africa and Netherlands:
Like the previous match, South Africa started off really well with the ball. They took quick wickets and didn’t give any space to Netherlands batters to balance their innings. Ottneil Baartman took 4 important wickets. Anrich Nortje and Marco Jansen took 2 wickets each and restricted Netherlands to 103 runs.
While defending the small total, Netherlands bowlers impressed a lot with their performances. They took early wickets os South Africa and made the very difficult for them. But David Miller and Tristan Stubbs balanced the innings and the Netherlands lost the match.
Brief Score: South Africa 106/6 in 18.5 ovrs David Miller 59* (51), Tristan Stubbs 33 (37), Ottneil Baartman (4/11)
Netherlands: 103/9 in 20 ovrs (Sybrand Engelbrecht 40 (45), Logan ven Beek 23 (22), Vivian Kingma 2/12)
Bowling Performance of Australia and England:
While bowling first, England conceded a lot of runs to Australia. Later on, they took a couple of wickets and restricted them to 201 runs. Chris Jordan took 2 wickets. Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, and Liam Livingstone picked up 1 wicket each.
In return, Australia started in a decent way but later on, they went great. They took quick wickets and made the chasing difficult for them. They won the match by 36 runs. From the Australian end, Pat Cummins and Adam Zampa got 2 wickets each. Marcus Stoinis and Josh Hazelwood picked up 1 wicket each.
Brief Score: Australia 201/7 in 20 overs (David Warner 39 (16), Mitchell Marsh (c) 35 (25), Pat Cummins 2/23)
England: 165/6 in 20 overs (Jos Buttler (c & wk) 42 (28), Philip Salt 37 (23), Chris Jordan 2/22)
Table of Most Wickets in T20 World Cup 2024:
| Player’s Name | Team | Match | Wickets | BBI | Average | Economy Rate |
| Fazalhaq Farooqi | AFG | 2 | 9 | 5/9 | 2.89 | 3.55 |
| Akeal Hosein | WI | 2 | 6 | 5/11 | 3.33 | 2.86 |
| Anrich Nortje | SA | 2 | 6 | 4/7 | 4.33 | 3.25 |
| Rashid Khan | AFG | 2 | 6 | 4/17 | 4.83 | 3.63 |
| Ottniel Baartman | SA | 2 | 5 | 4/11 | 4.00 | 2.50 |
| Nuwan Thushara | SL | 2 | 5 | 4/18 | 7.20 | 5.14 |
| Logan van Beek | NED | 2 | 5 | 3/18 | 7.80 | 5.32 |
| Brian Masaba | UGA | 2 | 5 | 2/21 | 13.80 | 5.75 |
| Mehran Khan | OMN | 2 | 5 | 3/7 | 9.00 | 6.43 |
| Ruben Trumpelmann | NAM | 2 | 5 | 4/21 | 11.40 | 7.13 |
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