T20 World Cup 2024: West Indies defeated Australia, Nicholas Pooran won the match by hitting fours and sixes

 

West Indies vs Australia Warm Up Game: Warm-up matches are being played before the start of T20 World Cup 2024. In this episode, a practice match was also played between West Indies and Australia. In this match played in Trinidad, West Indies defeated the Kangaroo team by 35 runs. Batting first, West Indies scored a huge score of 247 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, the Australian team could only score 222 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. Nicholas Pooran played a very brilliant innings for the Caribbean team.

Australia won the toss and decided to field but their decision did not prove to be right. Johnson Charles gave a stormy start to the team for West Indies. Johnson Charles scored 40 runs with the help of 6 fours in 31 balls. Shai Hope scored 14 runs in 8 balls. After the dismissal of these two batsmen, Nicholas Pooran and captain Rovman Powell batted very stormy in the middle order.

Nicholas Pooran hit fours and sixes

Nicholas Pooran played a brilliant innings of 75 runs with the help of 5 fours and 8 sixes in just 25 balls. Apart from this, Rovman Powell scored 52 runs with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes. In the lower order, Shimron Hetmyer scored 18 runs in 13 balls and Sherfane Rutherford scored 47 runs in 18 balls to take the team to a big score. However, Australia's main bowlers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins were not playing in this match.

Chasing the target, Josh Inglis scored 55 runs in 30 balls from the Kangaroo team. Apart from this, Ashton Agar played an innings of 28 runs in 13 balls. Nathan Ellis scored 39 runs in 22 balls. Opener David Warner could score only 15 runs in 6 balls. However, many main batsmen of Australia were not a part of this match. Players like Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis were not playing in this match. Due to this, the team had to face defeat.