Glenn Maxwell’s 201 Runs Confirm Australia’s World Cup 2023 Semi-Final Spot

As the saying goes, ‘Morning shows the day’, that is, if you look at the morning, you can understand how the day will go. So evening can tell the news of the night in advance? Probably not. At least in Mumbai Tuesday evening and night news completely failed today. Afghanistan is getting its fifth victory in the current World Cup by defeating the mighty Australia, that is what everyone assumed in the evening. From there, Glenn Maxwell changed the color of the night by playing an incredible innings. Until the middle of the second innings of the match, Udbel was in the Afghanistan dug-out waiting for the imminent victory. Darkness descended as Maxwell’s dream of winning the storm fell into the waters of the Arabian Sea some distance away.

Afghans won the toss and chose to bat first in today’s match. The pair of Gurbaz and Ibrahim Jadran started in an aggressive mood. Gurbaz was dismissed by Hazlewood but Ibrahim did not stop. He continued to fight. Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Omarzai, Hasmatullah Shahidi, and Zadran did not lack companions today. Each played a short but effective innings. Ibrahim Zadran scored a hundred by holding one end of the crease like an old bot. Rashid Khan appeared in the T20 mood in the death overs. Afghanistan scored 291 runs. In response, Australia had to face a disaster at the beginning when they came down to bat. They were moving towards a certain defeat by losing consecutive wickets. Glenn Maxwell built a mountain of resistance after the fall of 7 wickets. “Mad Max” stopped all attacks on Afghans. The all-rounder left the field with two points regardless of injuries.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hasmatullah Shahidi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahmat Shah – Several Afghanistan batsmen reached the threshold of centuries in the current World Cup and returned empty-handed. 87 came from Ibrahim Zadran’s bat against Pakistan. The satisfaction of the century did not come. Today, the 21-year-old young man cleared all his regrets. He became the first Afghan cricketer to cross the three-digit mark in the World Cup arena. This is his fifth international ODI century. Jadran explained why he is being called one of the best young talents in the world right now. Ibrahim touched the milestone of the century in 131 balls. Even then he did not stop. Rather, he continued the batting cycle. At the end of the innings, he remained unbeaten with 129 runs off 143 balls. Ibrahim scored 8 fours and 3 sixes in the innings

Rashid, Mujeeb, Noor Ahmed, Naveen ul Haq – all the weapons in his bowling arsenal were used against Maxwell today by Afghan captain Hasmatullah Shahidi. But Maxwell, busy with destruction, could not be swayed from twenty-two yards. With the help of 10 sixes and 21 fours, he remained not out at the end of the day scoring 201*. He single-handedly gifted Australia a semi-final ticket by snatching two points away from a certain defeat. The cricket world will probably remember Maxwell as the hero in today’s match. But Pat Cummins can also claim some credit. The way he stayed on the wicket and went with Maxwell could have been an example.