Pakistan’s highest-ever run chase in ODI World Cup history has finally been achieved. With Mohammad Rizwan and Abdullah Shafique leading the way with the bat, Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets on Tuesday in Hyderabad to win their second World Cup match in a row.
Pakistan’s highest-ever run chase in ODI World Cup history marked by chasing down 345 runs against Sri Lanka, surpassing Ireland.
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Playing XIs
Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis (wk), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka
Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf
The One Day International cricket world championship is known as the Cricket World Cup, or ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup.
The International Cricket Council, the organisation in charge of overseeing the sport, organises the event every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds preceding a finals competition.
The first ODI cricket match had been played only four years before the inaugural World Cup was held in England in June 1975.
However, a separate Women’s Cricket World Cup was conducted two years before to the first men’s competition, and a tournament with multiple international teams was established as early as 1912 when Australia, England, and South Africa competed in a triangular tournament of Test matches.
