australia 100 to 2 (Warner 53*) win Bangladesh 8 points 140 points (Shanto 41 points, Hridoy 40 points, Cummins 3-29 points) (DLS method)
As a result, they stumbled to 140-8 in 20 overs. The North Sound pitch was on the slow side and helped the spinners, but this was always going to be difficult to defend.
Later, Zampa also struck Shanto in front of the stumps with a quick leg-break to remove Bangladesh’s top scorer of the evening, who had scored two of his 24 runs from four overs.
Bangladesh failed to make a dent in the final three overs, scoring just 23 runs. Cummins’ wicket-taking was largely responsible for Australia’s dominance of the match during that period.
His first two wickets came from balls thrown back lengthwise outside off. Mahmudullah tried to lift the ball through midwicket but ended up throwing it to the bottom corner of the stumps. Mahedi Hasan tried to ramp but only managed a clean catch in deep third.
It was Australia’s fourth hat-trick in this format, but only their second at a World Cup – the first was Brett Lee’s against Bangladesh in 2007.
Warner and Head run out of the block.
It didn’t take long for the Australian openers to settle down. Warner hit a reverse sweep for four off Mahedi Hasan’s second ball of the innings. But in the fourth over from Taskin Ahmed, both batsmen hit straight boundaries, and Head lifted a short ball over the cow corner into the stands. They were 59 in the powerplay.
