Mohammad Nadeem’s special half-century (Photo-GETTY IMAGES)
Oldest to score FIFTY in T20 World Cup: Sri Lanka achieved a record-breaking victory in the T20 World Cup by defeating Oman by a huge margin of 105 runs. However, another world record was broken in this match and it was done by Oman’s batsman Mohammad Nadeem, who played an unbeaten inning of 53 runs against Sri Lanka. The special thing about Mohammad Nadeem’s innings is that he has become the oldest player to score a half-century in T20 World Cup history, he has broken the record of Sanath Jayasuriya, who had scored a half-century 17 years ago.
Jayasuriya’s world record broken
Sanath Jayasuriya played a half-century innings against West Indies in the 2009 T20 World Cup, during which he was 39 years, 345 days old. Now this record is in the name of Mohammad Nadeem, who has scored a half-century at the age of 43 years, 161 days. Nadeem is also the oldest cricketer in this T20 World Cup. Shoaib Malik has scored a half-century in the T20 World Cup at the age of 39 years, 279 days. Former Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan had scored a half-century in the year 2016 at the age of 39 years, 155 days. Talking about Mohammad Nadeem’s career, this player has scored 768 runs for Oman in 70 matches at an average of 20.7. He has scored only two half-centuries in T20 International. Apart from this, he also has 40 wickets in his name.
Mohammad Nadeem’s innings went in vain
Mohammad Nadeem definitely scored a half-century but his innings went in vain. Mohammad Nadeem scored only 53 unbeaten runs in 56 balls, his strike rate was less than 100. Oman’s team could score only 120 runs and was 105 runs behind Sri Lanka’s score. Sri Lanka won by more than 100 runs in the T20 World Cup after 19 years. With this victory, Sri Lanka has reached the top position in Group B. On the other hand, Oman team is almost out of the T20 World Cup after losing two consecutive matches. Oman team has to play its next match against Ireland on 14 February. Its clash with Australia will be on 20th February.
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