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.
Hardik Pandya to Devon Conway, Short ball, on middle. New Zealand’s openers came out with intent and the other bowlers had no answers to it. The World Cup all-time top scorer as of 2018 is Miroslav Klose of the German national football team. He scored a total of 16 goals across four World Cup tournaments.
He scored 1,016 runs in 31 innings, with his highest score being 100. Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi holds the T20 World Cup record for the most wickets in the tournament’s history. The leg-spin all-rounder took 39 wickets in 34 matches. The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the 2002 final and in the 2014 semi-final. The 2026 FIFA World Cup was chosen to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, marking the first time a World Cup has been shared by three host nations. The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 80 matches.
Besides, you can browseFirstpost.comfor live updates and over-by-over commentary. The Rohit Sharma vs Trent Boult battle will be the one to watch out for given Rohit’s troubles with the ball coming in from left-arm bowlers. The good thing is that Hardik Pandya has started to bowl in the nets and it will be interesting to see whether he bowls in the game and even if he does, then how many overs? It will also be interesting to see if at all India can bring in the in-form Ishan Kishan into the line-up but they will then have to take the tough call of leaving out either Suryakumar or Pandya which seems to be unlikely. A better fight was expected in the bowling department. However, they didn’t manage to take a single wicket as Pakistan chased down the target with 13 balls to spare.
Patriotic loyalties are at their peak as people on both sides of the border throng in front of flickering TV screens to watch what is, perhaps, the most politically charged derby. A cricket match between India and Pakistan continues to be one of sport’s biggest draws and bitterest rivalries. While this was happening, news broke that several Kashmiri students were allegedly attacked in the northern state of Punjab for celebrating Pakistan’s win. Since then, several other people – all Muslims – have been arrested, with some facing charges under a draconian anti-terror law for speaking, writing or sharing messages in support of Pakistan.
The ICC released the T20 World Cup 2021 schedule as early as the month of August. Hosts Oman will take on Papua New Guinea in the first Round 1 fixture of the tournament on 17 October 2021 at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground. The first round will see all the eight teams playing three games each to decide the four teams that will go on to the Super 12 stage.
Both Virat Kohli’s IND and Kane Williamson’s NZ are yet to get off the mark in this T20 World Cup. They have played some exciting encounters in the past and that is why this one is going to be even more exciting as a lot is riding on this game.So, sit back, grab your popcorn, food and beverages and enjoy the action. Sodhi has a brilliant record in ICC T20 World Cup in 6 innings he has picked 12 wickets and he has picked in every innings he has played in T20 World Cup. Kohli with 834 runs in 17 innings is the fourth-highest run-getter in ICC T20 World Cup, he has scored four fifties in last innings in T20 World Cup.
The match featured two teams who were beaten by group leaders Pakistan in their respective openers and needed a victory to put their campaigns back on track. The final stage of the 2021 International Federation of Sport Climbing World Championships commenced in Moscow, Russia, today, where 167 athletes took to the walls to compete in Lead qualifications. The IFSC Climbing World Championships Moscow 2021 came to a spectacular end tonight, at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Palace, where the men’s and women’s Lead finals closed the six-day competition. Paraclimbers from all over the world took the stage at the Sender One Climbing Gym in Los Angeles, California, USA, where the final IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup of the season kicked off today. Each of the seven Paraclimbing classes had to face two qualification routes, with the number of athletes advancing to the final depending on the total number of athletes being in the class. The final IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup of the season wrapped up at the Sender One Climbing Gym in Los Angeles, California, USA, where 57 climbers, representing 14 countries gathered for the conclusive event of the 2021 IFSC season.