New Delhi. Australia played their last group match against Afghanistan in Melbourne. In this very exciting match, the Australian team won by 4 runs and this team is currently in the race to reach the semi-finals. Aaron Finch did not play in this match due to a hamstring injury and was captained by Matthew Wade. The Kangaroo team, batting first, scored 168 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Glenn Maxwall’s half-century innings and the Afghanistan team also performed well, scoring 164 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs and had to face defeat. .
Naveen-ul-Haq bowled only 5 balls in his over
In this match a big mistake has been made by the umpire. Afghanistan bowler Naveen-ul-Haq bowled in the fourth over of the first innings. Significantly, in this over he bowled only 5 balls and the umpire declared the over. Interestingly, the players of both the teams also did not pay attention to this matter during the match.
Mitchell Marsh took a run on the first ball of this over, David Warner took a run on the second ball and then a four on the third ball and three runs were taken off the fourth ball. Apart from this, no run came off the fifth ball in the end. Then after that the umpire declared the over and the sixth ball was not bowled. Let us tell you that there is a lot of discussion on this issue on social media.
Australia: David Warner, Cameron Green, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (c/w), Pat Cummins, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
Afghanistan: Rehmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Usman Ghani, Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Darvesh Rasuli, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi (c), Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rehman, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazal Farooqui