Today, on 07th October 2023, Match No.4, between South Africa & Sri Lanka was played at Delhi.
It was historic today, so I came up with a post for all of you.
When the Chokers Started with some records
A historic day (07th October 2023) in the history of the World Cup. An eight year old record was broken today by South Africa by scoring 428/5 against Sri Lanka. The earlier record was with Australia, who had scored 417/6 against Afghanistan on 04th March 2015.
In this process, three batsmen of South Africa have scored centuries. 45 fours and 14 maximum (six) were hit by the team. It is also a record in the ICC World Cup, when three batsmen of a team have scored century.
Aiden Markram has scored fastest century of the World Cup in 49 balls.
Another record : Maximum runs in a World Cup Match 754 : (Previous best was 714 by Australia and Bangladesh in 2019)
- Quinton De Kock 100 (84)
- Van Der Dussen 108 (110)
- Aiden Markram 106 (54) R
Sri Lanka Chasing 429
In reply, starting of Sri Lanka was very bad. Pathum Nissanka was first to go off for a duck when Sri Lanka’s score was 1.
After this damage, some repair work was done beautifully by Kusal Mendis, who had scored fastest half century of this tournament (till date) but he couldn’t survive much and his beautiful daring innings came to an end when he was out on 76 off 42 balls (4 fours & 8 sixes) and the score of Sri Lanka was 109/3 in 12.4 overs.
Later, Charith Asalanka has completed his fifty on 46 balls in his World Cup debut. Later his 79 (65) runs innings came to end and Sri Lanka were at 232/6. Now Dasun Shanaka has opened his hands and scored his half century on 50 balls. But his brave innings (68 off 62) came to an end at 291/8.
After that Sri Lanka’s innings came to its end on 326 and South Africa won this match by 102 Runs.
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