AUS vs BAN Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024: Cummins hat-trick, Warner fifty set up Australia’s win over Bangladesh

A restart looks unlikely. That would mean a comfortable win for Australia. The DLS par score is just 72, meaning the Aussies are ahead by 28 runs. 

Taskin lands one on Warner’s pads. Flicked away for a six with ease by Warner and that brings up his fifty. And now the rain is back. Covers are back on and the players return to the dressing room. 

Rishad to continue. Warner takes him on with a reverse hit. Perfect timing. FOUR!! Maxwell joins in on the party. Pummels one over mid wicket for a flaaaat six. Strong bottom hand on display there. Australia racing towards the target. 

Mustafizur returns. Four!! Full and wide, Maxwell punches it through the covers for a boundary. Four!! Short ball from Fizz, Warner pulls it in front of square for a boundary. Ten runs from the over. 

Rishad continues. Warner whips a full one through midwicket for a single. Marsh looks for the sweep has to wait for it before playing the shot, single taken. WICKET!! Appeals for LBW as Marsh misses his sweep again. Given out onfield, Australia opt to review. Umpires call on hitting and Marsh departs. 

Mitchell Marsh lbw b Rishad Hossain 1(6)

Maxwell in at 5. Brings out the reverse sweep but will get only one. 

Mahedi to bowl out. The rain delay has meant the batters are having to readjust. Warner not taking any undue risk. Mahedi with a quicker one that almost shaves Mitch Marsh’s off stump. 

Rishad continues. Googly on offstump, Warner misses his slog. On the stumps, tapped to the leg side for a single. WICKET!!! Tossed up leg spinner, beats Head all ends up and removes off stump off its groove. 

Head b Rishad Hossain 31(21)

The rains have relented and the covers are back off. Batters are making their way back to the middle. 

A passing shower looks like. The covers are coming back off immediately. Scratch that. More rain and the covers are back on again.

Rishad into the attack. Head gets a single to long off. Four!! Warner brings out the reverse again, gets it the boundary and umpire signals for the covers to come on.

Mahedi with his third. Fifty partnership up with a single off the first ball. Stops in the pitch as Head tried to pull, falls short of the long on fielder. Six!! Short, Warner takes full toll by lofting it over the boundary at midwicket. 

Mustafizur into the attack. Three singles to start the over. Goes short to Head, who pulls awkwardly to mid on. Six!! Attempted slower ball in the slot, Head lofts it straight back over the bowler for six. Four!! Short and wide, carved over point for another boundary. 

Taskin into the attack. Four!! Warner pulls a back of a length ball through mid on for a boundary. Four!! Length again, punched through covers for a boundary by Head. Six!! Back of a length outside off, Head lofts it over midwicket for six!

Mahedi with his second. Six!! Full on the stumps, slog swept over midwicket for six by Warner. Head tries to make room, Mahedi follows him and beats him on the inside edge. 

Tanzim Sakib into the attack. Dropped! Warner cuts a slightly wider straight to point where it is grassed. Head punches one through the covers but it doesn’t have the legs to run to the boundary. Warner top-edges an attempted hook, falls in no-man’s land though. Four!! Short and wide, dispatched through point for a boundary. 

David Warner and Travis Head are out in the middle. Mahedi Hasan with the ball in hand. 

Full on the stumps, defended to cover by Warner. Four!! Brings out the reverse sweep second ball, lofts it over slip for four. A touch shorter, Warner defends to mid on and steals a single. 

The covers were on right after the completion of the BAN innings. Looks like they are coming off now. Match to restart at 8:05 am IST (22:35 local time)

Taskin and Sakib drag Bangladesh to 140/8 in 20 overs. Australia will be happy with this bowling effort. 

Hridoy tries a scoop against Cummins. He can’t clear Hazlewood at short fine. And that is a hat-trick for Cummins. 

Towhid Hridoy c Hazlewood b Cummins 40 (28b 2x4 2x6)

Hazlewood with the penultimate. Hridoy and Taskin with tasked with getting Bangladesh to a good total. Hazlewood keeps it tidy until the last ball. Fuller one and Taskin squeezes it past covers for a four. 

Cummins gets another one. Back of a length delivery. New batter Hasan guides it perfectly into the hands of Zampa at deep third. 

Mahedi Hasan c Zampa b Cummins 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)

Cummins with the 18th. Hridoy gets it underway with a double. Couple of singles follow. Short from Cummins. Mahmudullah goes for a pull. Under-edged and onto the stumps. 

Mahmudullah b Cummins 2 (3b 0x4 0x6)

Stoinis with a smart cutter. Shakib can only lob it straight up. Stoinis completes an easy return catch. Bangladesh in dire straits. 

Shakib Al Hasan c & b Stoinis 8 (10b 0x4 0x6)

But the wicket triggers something in Hridoy. He goes after Stoinis. Back-to-back sixes to the leg side to give Bangladesh some momentum. 

BAN 117/5 in 17 overs

Hazlewood with the 16th. On the pads and clipped away for a single by Hridoy. That brings up the 100 for Bangladesh. Hazlewood keeps it sharp and straight. No space for the batters to work with. Just five runs from the over. 

Shakib guides one to the fine leg region to get a double to start the Zampa over. Pushed through by Zampa. Another slog sweep from Hridoy. FOUR!!

Cummins returns. Shakib is the new batter and he gets off the mark with a tuck to the leg side. Cummins ensures the pressure doesn’t relent. Just five runs from the over. 

Zampa pitches it up and Hridoy brings out the slog. Pierces the gap and runs away for a four to the mid wicket fence. 

Shanto on strike. He goes for a sweep and is struck on the front pad. Umpire gives it out and Shanto doesn’t even bother to review. 

Najmul Hossain Shanto lbw b Zampa 41 (36b 5x4 1x6)

BAN 84/4 in 13 overs

Maxwelll with his second. Short from Maxwell and Hridoy cuts it for an easy double. Off drive from Hridoy. Another double added. Quiet over for Bangladesh. 

Starc is back. Shanto on strike. Couple of dot balls to start with. Surprise bouncer. Shanto has a wild swipe at it. Pings off his shoulder for a couple of leg byes. Starc ends his quota for the day with figures of 1/21. 

Maxwell into the attack. Four! Dropped a tad too short, Shanto punches it through cover for a boundary. WICKET!! Rishad looks to go big, only managed a top edge that is easily pouched by Zampa. 

Rishad Hossain c Zampa b Maxwell 2(4)

Zampa with his second. Full and straight, pushed to long off by Shanto for a single. Litton needs some runs here, not ideal batting at 66 strike rate. WICKET!! Right on cue, Zampa castles the right hander. Looked to sweep, ricochets off the pads and onto the stumps. 

Litton Das b Zampa 16(25)

Now that’s a surprise. Rishad Hossein promoted up to 4. Three runs from the over. 

Stoinis into the attack. Dropped short outside off, Shanto looks to carve it over the offside, very close to the edge. Four!! Stoinis gets the edge the very next ball but it goes over Wade and runs away for four. 50 partnership between the two. Ten runs from the over. 

Zampa into the attack. Full on the pads, pushed to midwicket for a single. Four!! Slightly short, Shanto does well to place the pull in the gap between midwicket and long on. Three singles to round out the over.

Cummins into the attack. Four!! Over pitched on the stumps, Shanto lofts it over wide mid on for a boundary. Bangladesh need a move on this over, the last one with field restrictions. Cummins drops it short, beats the batter and the keeper and runs away for five wides. 

Starc with his third over. Four!! Starc drops it slightly short, Litton pulls it over the infield on the legside and to the boundary. Four!! Similar length, Litton guides it past the slip fielder and to the boundary.

Four!! Length ball, Shanto makes room on the legside and lofts it straight down the ground for four. Follows it up with a single to short third. Litton looks to ramp a back of length ball behind, doesn’t get the contact, ball trickles to the offside for a single. 

Starc again. Bit of shape as he targets the stumps with a yorker, Shanto jams it to mid on and gets a quick single. Length ball on off to Litton, guided to third man for a single. Shanto sets off for a quick single after pushing one to mid off. 

Hazlewood from the other end. Back of a length on the body, Litton defends. Pitches one up on off stump, Litton drives to to mid off. Back to the short of a length deliveries and Litton happy to defend. Maiden over.

Tanzid Hasan and Litton Das will open the batting for the Tigers. Starc with the new ball in hand. 

Full and wide from Starc, Tanzid jams it to backward point. Some swing on offer for the left-armer. WICKET!! Full length again, swinging away, but this time its in line with the stumps and Tanzid sees the furniture disturbed behind him.

Tanzid Hasan b Mitchell Starc 0(3)

Shanto in at 3. Continues to pepper the batter with the full one. Four!! Short and wide, inviting Shanto into the cut, gets it over backward point for a boundary. 

The players stride out to the middle. Time for the national anthems.

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Tanzid Hasan, Litton Das(w), Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman

Australia (Playing XI): Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh(c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Australia wins the toss and elects to bowl first. Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood return for the Aussies. 

Covers are coming off. We can expect the game to start soon. 

Toss delayed due to rain. Covers have come out. 

Matches played: 5

Australia won: 5 

Last result: Australia won by 8 wickets (Dubai; 2021)

Australia

Mitchell Marsh (c), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserves: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Matthew Short

Bangladesh

Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Litton Das(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman, Mahedi Hasan, Tanvir Islam, Shoriful Islam, Soumya Sarkar

Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh(c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Bangladesh: Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Litton Das(w), Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman

Matches played: 10

Australia won: 6

Bangladesh won: 4 

Last result: Australia won by 8 wickets (Dubai; 2021)

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