World Cup 2019: India defeated Afghanistan by 11 runs in the 28th match of ICC World Cup played at Southampton. With the win, the Indian team has reached the third place with 9 points in the points table. The Indian team scored a minor score of 224/8 first, in response to Mohammad Shami’s hat-trick, Afghanistan’s team got reduced to just 213 runs. You can check the full scorecard here.
Mohammed Shami’s hat-tricks was the 10th in World Cup and 2nd one for India in the World Cup. Earlier in the World Cup, India’s Chetan Sharma (1987 vs New Zealand), Pakistan’s Saqlain Mushtaq (1999 vs Zimbabwe), Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas (2003 vs Bangladesh), Brett Lee (2003 vs Kenya), Lasith Malinga (2007 vs South Africa) ), Kemar Roach (2011 vs Netherlands), Lasith Malinga (2011 vs Kenya), Steven Finn (2015 vs Australia) and JP Duminy (2015 vs Sri Lanka) took the hat-trick.
Mohammed Shami the only fourth bowler to take hat-trick in ODIs from India. Apart from them, Chetan Sharma (1987 vs New Zealand), Kapil Dev (1991 vs Sri Lanka) and Kuldeep Yadav (2017 vs Australia) made this record.
India’s 50th win in the World Cup, Only the third team to do so after Australia (67) and New Zealand (52).
India won the match with 11 runs which is the Indian team’s shortest win in the World Cup. Earlier, the record was of 16 runs, when India defeated New Zealand in 1987.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (140): World record of highest stumping in List A Cricket, and he left Moin Khan (139) behind. Mahendra Singh Dhoni stumps out for just the second time in ODIs Earlier this record was made against the West Indies in 2011.