Whether Backstedt can utilise this crossover to tame the track, road and cyclo-cross circuit at elite level remains to be seen, or is perhaps only a matter of time. Guptill got the chase off to a strong start in the Powerplay, hitting all but four of his team’s runs before falling for 20 in the fourth over to Jasprit Bumrah. There were just two sixes and ten boundaries in total in India’s innings, leaving them needing a superb showing from the bowlers to avoid a second straight World Cup loss. But Jadeja came in and at least helped India to bring up the ton, hitting 26 of 19 balls, one of only two batters along with Rahul to score at more than a run-a-ball. India had made a change at the top of the order from their opening loss to Pakistan, bringing in Ishan Kishan for Suryakumar Yadav and dropping the rest of the batting line-up down one. But Kishan made little impact, falling to Trent Boult for just four off eight balls.
Adam Milne gave away 15 runs in the first over, but conceded 15 from the next 3 and also picked up a wicket. Short and wide, Williamson rocks back, opens the face of the bat and guides it past short third. Mitchell backs away a little, clears the front leg and hammers the ball past a wide mid-off. Too short this time as Kane Williamson sways away from it. Kane Williamson shimmies down the track and lofts it towards long off for a boundary.
While the first three venues will also be active during the IPL 2021 tournament preceding the T20 World Cup, the final venue is in Oman. Oman, who have qualified for Round 1 of the tournament, have graciously joined in as 2021 T20 World Cup host alongside UAE. With the second wave of COVID-19 in India being much more disruptive than the first, the T20 World Cup had to be moved away from the country.
Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 to successfully defend their title. The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France, and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain, with one title each. Daryl Mitchell made a breezy 49 and captain Kane Williamson remained not out on 33 as the Black Caps cruised to their first win of the tournament with 33 balls to spare.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since Argentina 1978, and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside Europe. Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA’s congress. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold the first World Cup in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing. The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the 1938 FIFA World Cup.
Kishan and Shardul Thakur replaced Suryakumar Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the starting XI. Suryakumar had to be left out of the team due to a back spasm. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia. We weren’t brace enough when we entered the field, but NZ sustained that pressure. It’s most often a result of hesitation of whether you should go for a shot or not.
Further says that Southee getting that late wicket in the Powerplay helped them. Informs that they had a tough loss against Pakistan. Ends by saying that they wanted to do their best in this game. Daryl Mitchell misses his maiden T20I fifty as he hits it straight to KL Rahul at long-on. Brilliant knock from Mitchell though, 49 off 35 balls with the help of three sixes and 4 fours, as he takes the game away from India. India’s superstar cricketers were pummelled on a second-straight Sunday as a disciplined New Zealand firmly pushed them towards the exit door with an easy eight-wicket victory in the ICC T20 World Cup.