Australia’s Glenn Maxwell smashed a match-winning unbeaten 201 in a knock for the ages against Afghanistan in an ICC Men’s ODI World Cup thriller that took the five-time champions into the semi-finals on Tuesday.
As the middle-order batter took his team from 91/7 to 293/7 in the group fixture in Mumbai, he broke several records along with his captain Pat Cummins.
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The 35-year-old Maxwell’s highest one-day international score was just his fourth century in 136 matches at this level, but second of the tournament after he scored the fastest hundred in men’s World Cup history, off just 40 balls, against the Netherlands.
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Cummins himself was 12 not out off 68 deliveries, but played his part by holding firm in an unbroken record eighth-wicket stand of 202.
After being dropped on 33 by Mujeeb Ur Rahman, he made Afghanistan pay with an astounding 128-ball innings, featuring 21 fours and 10 sixes, as he became just the third batter after New Zealand’s Martin Guptill and West Indies’ Chris Gayle to score a men’s World Cup double century.
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