{"id":406132,"date":"2024-06-25T05:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=406132"},"modified":"2024-06-25T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:05:44","slug":"aussies-knocked-out-after-unacceptable-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=406132","title":{"rendered":"Aussies knocked out after 'unacceptable' act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's T20 World Cup<\/a> dream has ended after Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh to secure the last semi final spot at the tournament.<\/p>\n

\ufeffFollowing a low-scoring total of 5-115 from Afghanistan, who elected to bat first after wining the toss, the Aussies relied on a Bangladesh victory to qualify for the final-four.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Australia, a\ufeff brave knock from opener Liton Das was all in vain as the Tigers fell agonisingly short of pulling off the upset, allowing Afghanistan to advance.<\/p>\n

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The rain-affected match was marred by controversy during Bangladesh's innings, when Gulbadin Naib seemingly faked a hamstring injury to force a rain delay after coach Johnathan Trott signalled for his team to slow down.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"Oh no, sorry, you can't have this – I'm not accepting that," Simon Doull said on commentary.<\/p>\n

"Even Rashid (Khan) doesn't like it. It's just delay tactics. I get it but I don't like that at all.<\/p>\n

"It is unacceptable. They might have gone off anyway for the rain but that's not a good look. I know the Euros are going on in football, you'd be better off there."<\/p>\n

The tactics drew the ire of plenty on social media\ufeff, but Indian star Ravichandran Ashwin found the funny side of the Naib incident.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/imransiddique89\/status\/1805457736055873825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwinravi99\/status\/1805457023548444696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottBaileyAAP\/status\/1805457694406721837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

Bangladesh lost their final wicket with seven balls remaining in their innings, with Das finishing unbeaten on 54 but ran out of partners as Afghanistan held on by seven runs.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Speaking after the dramatic clash, Naveen Ul-Haq praised his side for staying patient in tricky conditions as they reach the business-end of the tournament.<\/p>\n

"We have worked so hard over the past couple of years and we were dreaming and we were waiting for this day," he said.<\/p>\n

"I'm lost for words. It is such a surreal experience.I think we always knew that they [Bangladesh] were going hard in the power play. We knew we could stay in the game as long as we picked up simple wickets. <\/p>\n

\"Rashid<\/p>\n

"I think these are the games you never know what could happen.We had confidence that these wickets weren't high scoring wickets.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

A 15-run final over headed by Khan took Afghanistan from 5-100 to 5-115, with the star bowler finishing the innings with a 98-metre six in a bid to keep their hopes alive.<\/p>\n

The Afghanistan skipper's injection was explosive in more ways than one as he became the centre of an ugly incident outside the crease.<\/p>\n

In what seemingly was a communication error, Khan attempted to send a helicopter shot off Tanzim Hasan Sakib into the boundary but the ball fell short.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old \ufeffopted to take advantage of increased pressure on the Bangladesh fielders and turned for a second run, however, batting partner Karim Janat elected to stay put.<\/p>\n

Khan fired his bat towards Janat after he refused a second run that would have seen the \ufeffBBL star back on the strike.<\/p>\n

\"Rashid<\/p>\n

"He wants two and he's furious – he's thrown his bat," New Zealand cricket great Ian Smith declared in commentary on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

"I've never seen that before in any cricket. He's so cross and he's turned his back."<\/p>\n

Earlier, Bangladesh came out firing, bowling seven dot balls in the first two overs to limit Afghanistan to -5.<\/p>\n

Afghan star batting duo \ufeffRahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran reclaimed control of the game, playing a 59-run partnership before Zadran was court for 18.<\/p>\n

A three-wicket haul by Rishad Hossain kept Bangladesh's World Cup campaign alive, with the score standing at 4-89 with three overs to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia's T20 World Cup dream has ended after Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh to secure the last semi final spot at the tournament. \ufeffFollowing a low-scoring total […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406141,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406132\/revisions\/406141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}