Tag: clean sweep

  • England is number 1 T20 team in the world after clean sweeping South Africa in T20 series

    Dawid Malan’s unbeaten 99 in a record partnership helped England complete a 3-0 series sweep over the Proteas with a nine-wicket win in the final KFC T20 International in Cape Town on Wednesday.

    Dawid Malan (99*) and Jos Butler (67*) produced the highest ever second wicket partnership in men’s T20 internationals, as they made short work of chasing 192 to give England a 3-0 serie win over South Africa at Newlands.

    The world’s top-ranked batsman shared in a record partnership T20I partnership of 167 with Jos Buttler (67 off 46 balls, 3 fours, 5 sixes) as the tourists completed the highest-ever chase at Six Gun Grill Newlands – hunting down the 192 target with 14 deliveries to spare.

    It was an unfortunate end to the series for the hosts, who themselves did exceptionally well with the bat thanks to Rassie van der Dussen’s career-best 74 off 32 balls (5 fours, 5 sixes) and 52 off 37 balls (5 fours, 3 sixes) by Faf du Plessis, who was making his 50th appearance for South Africa.

    The two put on an unbroken 127 for the fourth wicket in 10.3 overs with Van der Dussen’s effort beating his previous highest score of 64 against Sri Lanka at Centurion in 2018/19.

    His third career 50 was well supported by a 10th career half-century by Du Plessis as the pair bettered the record fourth wicket stand of 110 for South Africa that had been set by AB de Villiers and Farhaan Behardien against England at Southampton in 2017.

    But without the injured Kagiso Rabada, who has subsequently been ruled out of the upcoming one-day series due to injury, the home attack toiled and eventually succumbed to their worst defeat of the series despite amassing their highest total.

  • Team India is being scared of clean sweep, this change can happen in the last ODI!

    Team India’s debut on the tour of Australia has been very bad. The bowling of the team has disappointed a lot. Due to lack of bowling options to backup regular bowlers and unable to pace themselves in the ODI format, India have lost the series to Australia, with one more match to be played. If India fails to win this last match, then it will be a clean sweep.

    Due to two consecutive ODI defeats at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the Indian team has lost 0-2 in the three-match series and now they have lost five consecutive ODIs. Earlier, he lost to New Zealand in three ODIs in February.

    The two defeats in Sydney have revealed a huge gap between India and Australia. India, after playing T20 cricket for nearly two months, is adapting itself in the format of 50 overs. Captain Virat Kohli said after the first ODI defeat that the players have not come out of T20 mode yet.

    He had said, ‘We are playing T20 cricket. Possibly: which can have an effect. Body language was not good after 25 overs’. However, India’s biggest concern has been the lack of an all-rounder option, which can serve as a back-up to regular bowlers. India tried to bowl to Hardik Pandya who did not look fully fit and did well, but if they have to win the third and final match, Pandya may have to bowl more overs.