ICC T20 World Cup 2024 How Bangladesh defeated Nepal in the 37th match and qualified for the Super 8. Bangladesh team, who came to bat first, were all out after scoring 106 runs.
In response, Nepal, chasing a target of 107 runs, were all out for 85 runs and lost the match by 21 runs.
With this, Bangladesh created the record of defending the lowest score in the history of ICC T20 World Cup.
Today we are going to tell you about those teams who defended the least targets.
5) India Vs Pakistan (ICC T20 World Cup 2024)
India defended a target of 120 runs against Pakistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup. This was the fifth lowest score defended in the T20 World Cup.
After losing the toss and batting first, India were all out after scoring 119 runs in 19 overs. Rishabh Pant scored the most runs from India’s side. Pant faced 31 balls and scored 42 runs. From Pakistan’s side, Naseem Shah, Harris Rauf took three wickets each and Mohammad Aamir took two wickets.
In response, Pakistan’s team, which came out to chase 120 runs, had a good start. Pakistan’s first wicket fell at 26 runs in the form of Babar Azam. Babar Azam became the victim of Bumrah after scoring 13 runs in 10 balls. After this, no batsman of Pakistan could stay for long. Mohammad Rizwan scored the most runs from Pakistan. Rizwan played an innings of 31 runs in 44 balls.
Jaspreet Bumrah took the most wickets from India’s side. Bumrah got three wickets and Hardik Pandya got two wickets. Pakistan lost this match by 6 runs.
4) Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand (ICC T20 World Cup 2014)
In the ICC T20 World Cup 2014, Sri Lanka also defended the target of 120 runs against New Zealand.
In the 2014 ICC T20 World Cup, Sri Lanka batted first and were all out for 119 runs in 19.2 overs. Mahela Jayawardene scored the most runs for Sri Lanka, scoring 25 runs in 32 balls. Trent Boult and James Neesham took three wickets each for New Zealand in this match.
Chasing a target of 120 runs, New Zealand were all out for 60 runs in 15.3 overs in front of Rangana Herath’s lethal bowling. Williamson scored the highest for New Zealand with 42 runs in 43 balls.
Rangana took 5 wickets for 3 runs in 3.3 overs with two maiden overs.
3) South Africa Vs Nepal (ICC T20 World Cup 2024)
South Africa defeated Nepal by one run and defended the third lowest score. In the 31st match of ICC T20 World 2024, Nepal won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision of Nepal proved to be right and it was successful in restricting South Africa to 115 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.
Kushal Bhurtel took the maximum of four wickets from Nepal’s side. Dipendra Singh was also successful in taking three wickets.
In response, Nepal’s team, which came out to chase the target of 115 runs, could not face Tabrez Shamsi. Shamsi took 4 wickets for 19 runs in four overs. Due to this, Nepal could only score 114 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs and South Africa was successful in winning this match by one run.
2) South Africa Vs Bangladesh (ICC T20 World Cup 2024)
In this match played between South Africa and Bangladesh, South Africa was successful in defending the score of 114 runs. South Africa defeated Bangladesh in this match by 4 days.
South Africa managed to defend the second-lowest score in the history of the ICC T20 World Cup.
The decision to bat first after winning the toss proved wrong for South Africa and their first wicket fell at zero runs. After losing four wickets at 23 runs, Klaasen and Miller took charge of South Africa’s innings. However, South Africa’s team could only score 113 runs in 20 overs.
Chasing the target of 114 runs, Bangladesh’s team could only score 109 runs and lost the match by four runs. For South Africa, Kis Maharaj took three wickets for 27 runs in four overs.
1) Bangladesh Vs Nepal (ICC T20 World Cup 2024)
The 37th match of the 2024 T20 World Cup was played between Bangladesh and Nepal. In this match, Bangladesh managed to defend the lowest score in the history of the T20 World Cup.
In this match, after losing the toss and batting first, Bangladesh’s team collapsed for 106 runs in 19.3 overs. Shakib Al Hasan scored the highest 17 runs for Bangladesh.
Nepal came out to chase a simple target of 107 runs and were all out for 85 runs in 19.2 overs and lost the match against Bangladesh by 21 runs.
Tanjim Hasan Sakib bowled brilliantly for Bangladesh. He took 4 wickets giving away just 7 runs in 4 overs with 2 maiden overs.
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