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West Indies rained runs in the last league match of T-20 World Cup 2024. Nicholas Pooran’s innings of 98 became the highest score of the current tournament in the match. This was West Indies’ best score in the history of T20 World Cup.
Puran hit a total of 8 sixes in the match and became the player to hit the most sixes for West Indies. The team also achieved the second biggest win by defeating Afghanistan by 104 runs.
5 records of the match…
1. Best performance of West Indies in T-20 World Cup
T20 World Cup 2012 champion West Indies gave its best performance in this match. The team scored 218 after losing 5 wickets. This is West Indies’ biggest score in the World Cup. This has also become the fourth highest score in T20 World Cup history. Earlier, the team had scored 205 runs losing 6 wickets against South Africa in the 2007 World Cup.
2. Highest powerplay score in T-20 World Cup
West Indies made a fast start against Afghanistan. The team scored 92 runs losing 1 wicket in the powerplay. This was the biggest powerplay score in the history of T20 World Cup. Earlier in 2014, Netherlands had scored 91 runs in the powerplay against Ireland.
3. Puran is the player who has hit the most sixes for West Indies.
Puran hit 8 sixes in his innings of 98 runs. With this he completed 128 sixes in his international career and became the player to hit the most sixes for West Indies. He left behind legendary batsman Chris Gayle. Gayle has hit 124 sixes in 79 matches.
4. Puran’s 98 runs is the highest score in this World Cup.
For the first time in the T20 World Cup 2024, such fast batting was seen in the West Indies-Afghanistan match. Nicholas Pooran scored 98 runs in 53 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 6 fours. Earlier, in the first match of the season, America’s Aaron Jones had played an unbeaten inning of 94 runs against Canada. Puran’s 98 is the highest personal score in this World Cup.
5. West Indies’ second biggest win in T-20
Along with batting, excellent bowling of West Indies was also seen in the match. Obed McCoy took three wickets. Caribbeans bowled out Afghanistan for 114. The team won the match by 104 runs. This was the team’s second biggest win in T-20. Earlier in the same World Cup, the team had defeated Uganda by 134 runs. Which is their biggest win by margin of runs.
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West Indies made the highest score of T20 World Cup 2024: Beat Afghanistan by 104 runs, Puran scored 98 runs; 3 wickets for McCoy
In the last match of the group stage in the ICC T-20 World Cup, West Indies defeated Afghanistan by 104 runs. Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bowl at the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia. West Indies scored 218 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. This was the biggest score of this World Cup. Read full news
