A Matthew Wade driblet down the stumps has robbed Adam Zampa of a T20 World Cup hat-trick – and the leg-spinner took him to task implicit it.
But astatine the extremity of the lucifer Australia's dressing country is simply a blessed one, aft they steamrolled Bangladesh by 8 wickets and, crucially, gave their nett run-rate a monolithic boost.
Led by Zampa, who captured 5-19, Australia took conscionable 15 overs to skittle Bangladesh for 73 runs.
And needing to pursuit the full successful little than 8 overs to overtake South Africa connected nett run-rate successful the group-one pool, Australia accounted for the meagre full successful conscionable 6.2 overs.
Australia and South Africa are present locked connected 3 wins apiece, but the Justin Langer-coached broadside has a nett run-rate of 1.03 and the Proteas lone 0.74.
Australia and South Africa are warring to travel group-one person England done to the semi-finals, with Australia awaiting a last group-stage lucifer against the West Indies and the Proteas a crippled against England.
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Captain Aaron Finch peeled disconnected 40 from 20 arsenic helium spearheaded Australia's tally pursuit against Bangladesh, portion all-rounder Mitch Marsh produced his ain entertaining cameo connected his instrumentality to the XI, blasting an unbeaten 16 from lone 5 balls.
Zampa's figures of 5-19 are present the champion by an Australia subordinate successful T20 World Cup cricket and the champion figures yet retired of each players astatine this year's tournament.
But the Melbourne Stars limb would person an planetary hat-trick to his sanction if Wade hadn't grassed an borderline from Bangladesh batter Taskin Ahmed successful the 15th implicit of his side's innings.
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"That was my hat-trick ball," Zampa doubly shouted to Wade from the other extremity of the pitch.
"Yeah, I tried to drawback it," Wade quipped back.
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When asked astir the missed accidental connected Fox Cricket aft the game, Zampa brushed the driblet speech and commended Wade connected his keeping during the tournament.
"I deliberation if it wasn't for Wadey's hands astatine the infinitesimal I wouldn't person arsenic galore wickets arsenic I've been getting," Zampa said.
"He's been keeping beautifully well.
"Tough catch."
Zampa has present taken the astir wickets successful the super-12 stage, having snared 10 from 4 games astatine an mean of 8.9.
Before Zampa took 5-19 against Bangladesh, left-arm seamer James Faulkner held the grounds for champion bowling figures by an Australia subordinate astatine a T20 World Cup, having bagged 5-27 against Pakistan during the 2016 edition.
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