Dubai. Australia have made it to the final of the T20 World Cup 2021 by defeating Pakistan. With this it has also been decided that this time the world will get a new T20 World Cup champion. The title clash between Australia and New Zealand will take place on Sunday 14 November at the Dubai International Stadium. Both the teams have never won a T20 World Cup title before. In such a situation, now the world is going to get a new T20 World Cup winner.
The Dubai stadium was packed with Pakistani supporters for the second semi-final but fans were disappointed as Matthew Wade smashed an unbeaten 41 off 17 balls to give Australia a five-wicket win with six balls to spare. With this, the journey of Pakistan ended with this mega event. Pakistan’s team has won one title T20 World Cup. Pakistan won the T20 World Cup in 2009.
both semifinals are the same
Both the semi-finals of this tournament were equally exciting. New Zealand needed 57 runs from 24 balls to win over England in the first semi-final played in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Jimmy Neesham turned the match with 27 runs off 11 balls. After this, Darryl Mitchell hit a four on the last ball of the 19th over to give his team a five-wicket win with six balls to spare. Australia needed 50 runs from the last four overs in the second semi-final in Dubai on Thursday.
Australian wicketkeeper Wade hit three sixes in the last three balls of the 19th over of Pakistan’s best fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi to give his team a five-wicket win with six balls to spare. On the third ball of the same over, Hasan Ali dropped the catch of Wade at deep midwicket. At that time he was on 21 runs. He took two runs on this ball and scored 18 runs in the next three balls. He hit two sixes out of these three with a scoop shot. It is almost impossible to hit such a shot on a fast bowler. He hit a six over midwicket. Marcus Stoinis supported him by playing an unbeaten 40 runs. Both shared 81 runs for the sixth wicket. Shaheen gave 13 runs in his first three overs and 22 runs in his last over.
Warner did not take DRS
Pakistan had set a target of 177 runs for Australia. At one point, Australia had scored 89 for three in 10 overs and the team was moving easily towards winning. Shadab Khan bowls the ball. The ball came out of Warner’s bat and put it in the hand of wicketkeeper Rizwan. Both appealed fiercely and umpire Chris Geffney raised his finger. Warner did not take the DRS and went on. Later replays showed that the ball had not hit his bat and went a long way. The team also had DRS left, but Warner did not know why he did not take the review. Had he taken the review, he would have survived. He got out for 49. Shadab took four wickets in this match. He took one wicket in every over. He had taken just five wickets in five matches earlier in this tournament. After this it looked like the match would slip out of Australia’s hands, but Stoinis and Wade turned the game around.
Rizwan played a good innings after being ill
Muhammad Rizwan and Shoaib Malik had fever and cold and due to this both these players did not even practice at the ICC Academy on Wednesday. Rizwan also had to stay admitted in ICU for two nights. In the semi-final, Rizwan came down to medicine and scored a brilliant 67 runs and also did 20 over wicketkeeping. He first shared 71 runs for the first wicket with captain Babar Azam and 72 runs for the second wicket with Fakhar Zaman. He hit three fours and four sixes. After his dismissal, the run rate slowed down a bit, but Fakhar played an unbeaten 55 to take the team to 176 runs.
working practice
On Wednesday, Fakhar was hitting big sixes in the ICC Academy ground. Several sixes had gone 90 to 100 meters away and many journalists were spared from getting hurt by his shots. Seeing his practice, it seemed that he would hit big shots against Australia. He hit three fours with four big sixes in his unbeaten 55-run knock. However, Steve Smith dropped his easy catch at long off on a personal score of 40 runs. Had he caught this catch, Pakistan’s score would have been low. The two sixes he hit in the last over went 92 and 89 meters away.
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