On This Day

On this day, a complete brief of Cricket Records, Incidents and Birth of players.

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17 June 1999

A unique Semi-Final match was played between Australia and South Africa

That day one of the greatest one day match was played probably the best ever played in the World and such match might never be played again. In those 100 overs every thing happened that can happen in a One day game the match was played in Edgbaston, Birmingham after a thrilling and exciting action the match ended up as tie and Australia gone through to final for having a good net run rate in points table. In last two balls when only 1 run was required Klusener tried to complete run but his partner Allan Donald couldn't escape himself from getting run out and South Africa's dream to play the world cup final for the first time was broken.  

18 June 2005 

Bangladesh did an upset by defeating Australia

On that day Bangladesh achieved something that no one had ever imagined, it was first match of the ODI series between Australia and Bangladesh. Bangladesh restricted Kangaroos on 249 runs for 5 wickets and then Muhammad Ashraful scored his first ever ODI hundred and Bangladesh continued to chase the target quickly and the last over came 7 runs were required on 6 balls Jason Gillespie had the ball in his hand and then Australian fans witnessed a shocking scene when Gillespie was struck end for the six on very first ball of the over by Aftab Ahmed and then also conceded single on next ball and that way Australia lost to Bangladesh for the first time and a famous news paper of Sydney " Daily Telegraph " wrote that it's Australia's most embracing lose ever. 

18 June 2017

A Golden day in Pakistan's Cricket History as they defeated India in champion trophy 2017

The historical final was played between Pakistan and India at Oval Cricket Ground, India won the toss and elected to bowl first all was going great for India but the wicket of Fakhar Zaman on a No ball by Bumrah cost India a lot and Pakistan put a huge target of 339 runs, noting gone well for India as they fall in trouble from the beginning when Muhammad Aamir Dismissed Rohit Sharma for nun and Virat Kohli for 5 runs, none of Indians batsman could stayed strong against Pakistani bowlers apart from Hardik Pandya who scored 76 of 43 deliveries and Indian batting summed up on 158 and Pakistan won by 180 runs. 

20 June 1999

Australia won the world cup by defeating Pakistan

Pakistan started the tournament as the hot favourite and provided great performance in group stage matches but their performance in final was very poor and ended up losing the final. Pakistan scored just 132 runs while Batting first and 25 runs where the extras and highest score from the team was Ijaz Ahmed who scored 22 runs. Australia chased down the target in just 20.1 overs and won the title then Australian team went on winning two more world cup titles in 2003 and 2007. Their streak of winning 3 titles continuously was broken by India in 2011 who won their second world cup.