Pat Cummins’ joy of claiming consecutive hat-tricks was short-lived as Afghanistan scripted one of the biggest upsets in the history of T20 World Cup by defeating Australia by 21 runs in their Super 8 tie on Sunday. Chasing 149 to win, Australia, barring Glenn Maxwell’s 59 off 41 balls, could not get going as Gulbadin Naib’s stellar 4/20 rocked their chase, ending on XX. Almost eight months after coming agonisingly close to defeating Australia at the ODI World Cup last November, their dreams were realised today in Kingstown.
Afghanistan’s win all but secures India’s spot in the semi-finals, and sets Australia up for a must-win game against the 2007 Champions on Monday.
