In cricket, you must have heard many stories of teams settling for low scores. You might have seen this live in many matches. In the match we are going to talk about, the team was all out for 53 runs. Now are the teams all out on a score of 53 runs or even less? But, the twist in the story here is that this happened with the team scoring 52 runs for 2 wickets. In Australian domestic cricket, an ODI match was being played between Tasmania and Western Australia. In this match, Western Australia team could not score more than 53 runs despite scoring 52 runs for 2 wickets. Then what happened to his 8 batsmen in the LIVE match?
Western Australia from 52/2 to 53/10
The Western Australia team, which came to bat first in the match against Tasmania, added 52 runs to the score board after losing 2 wickets. But, believe me, what happened after that would hardly have happened to any team in cricket before. You start expecting a challenging total from the team playing at 52 runs for 2 wickets. But, after what happened to 8 batsmen of Western Australia, their innings ended at 53 runs only. Meaning the next 8 batsmen could not add more than 1 run to the score board.
What happened in the match with 8 batsmen?
Now the question is what happened to the remaining 8 batsmen that Western Australia’s score stopped at 53 runs. So what happened was that out of the remaining 8 batsmen, there was only one who could score 1 run. Whereas the condition of the remaining 7 batsmen was so bad that they could not even open their account. The two Tasmanian bowlers who created a ruckus with the ball were responsible for the bad condition of 8 batsmen of Western Australia. One of them was Billy Stanlake and the other was Beau Webster.
2 bowlers together destroyed everything!
Right-arm fast bowler Webster dismissed 6 batsmen while conceding 17 runs in 6 overs in the match. Whereas the other fast bowler Stanlake took 3 wickets for 12 runs in 7.1 overs. These bowlers of Tasmania together took the remaining 8 wickets of Western Australia in just 38 balls and gave only 1 run during this period. Due to this havoc by Tasmania’s bowlers, Western Australia reduced from 52/2 to 53/10.
Tasmania won the match on 51 balls
Tasmania chased the target of 54 runs given by Western Australia in just 8.3 overs i.e. 51 balls. However, in scoring so many runs, Tasmania also lost 3 wickets, which shows that the pitch was also very helpful for the bowlers. But, it cannot be denied that the batsmen of Western Australia have batted poorly, otherwise which team gets out 8 batsmen after scoring 1 run.