Record breaking Morgan scales new heights in One Day Internationals.
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| ICC CWC 2019 |
Old Trafford, the home ground of Manchester United
has erupted again, Fans are sitting on the edges of their seats, cheering for
their heroes every now and then. It is neither the Premier league nor the Europa
League, but the country's national sport Cricket has taken over everything, all
hails to some of the prodigious performances by some exceptional players. ICC CWC19 has only reached till the
half way mark but has offered million reasons for the fans to smile and cheer
for their heroes.
From the heroics of Ben Stokes in the opening game
against South Africa where he took a blinder of a catch to the El-Clasico clash
between India and Pakistan where the former consolidated their winning streak
in World Cup games to 7-0.
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| Shakib al Hasan, leading run scorer so far with 384 runs. |
Until now, team batting second has failed to chase down the target of 250+ in this tournament. But Bangladesh came out with different plans against the West Indies in Taunton where they hunt down the target of 322. Only once out of 10 times in this year CWC 19 this feat has been achieved and Bangladeshi tigers did it in some style with 7 wickets remaining. Shakib al Hasan was their hero in this successful run chase, who is also the leading run scorer of the tournament with two centuries to his name so far.
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Eoin Morgan taking on Rashid Khan.
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In a recently concluded encounter England defeated
Afghanistan by 150 runs to top the table. For Afghans this match was a learning
curve rather than anything else as the English batsman torn apart their bowling
line up to make them torpid.
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Rashid Khan was clue less against the English
Batsman.
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Quick Gun Morgan:
Eoin Morgan played the knock of his life, when
England took on Afghanistan in a rather one sided clash. He scored 148(71)
which included 17 gigantic sixes and only 4 fours. 17 sixes hit by Morgan is
now the most in an ODI innings in a World Cup game going past the previous best
of 16 sixes by Christopher Henry Gayle against Zimbabwe at Canberra in 2015
World Cup.
This is also his best score in ODIs. He took on the Afghanistan best spinner Rashid Khan in particular by smashing him in all
corners of the park. The Afghan leggie had a worst day on the field as he
conceded 110 runs in his 9 overs and took the mortification of holding the
worst world cup figure of all time to his name.
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Morgan scored fourth fastest 100 of 57 balls in WC
against Afghanistan.
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Morgan who played a blistering innings after getting
dropped by Dawlat Zadran at deep mid-wicket on Rashid Khan bowling. He got a
good companion in Joe Root who was playing second fiddle and anchoring the
innings. Morgan reached to his century in just 57 balls which makes him the
fourth fastest player to reach to a three figure mark in World Cup game. Kevin
O'Brien's 50 ball century against the England at Bengaluru in 2011 World Cup
still remains at the top.
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England beat Afghanistan by 150 runs to get on top
of the points table.
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Moreover, the late hitting onslaught from Moeen Ali took them
to 397/6 in their allotted quota of 50 overs which is now their highest total
in World Cup surpassing their previous best of 386/6 against Bangladesh earlier
in the tournament.
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