Western Australia scored 53 runs (Photo: Will Russell/Getty Images)
In cricket, you must have heard many stories of teams settling for low scores. You may have seen this live at many matches. In the match we are going to talk about, the team was eliminated by 53 runs. Are all the teams now with a score of 53 runs or even less? But the twist of the story here is that this happened when the team scored 52 runs for 2 wickets. In Australian domestic cricket, an ODI match was played between Tasmania and Western Australia. In this match, the Western Australian team could not score more than 53 runs despite scoring 52 runs for 2 wickets. So what happened to your 8 hitters in the LIVE game?
Western Australia from 2/52 to 10/53
The Western Australian team, which batted first in the match against Tasmania, added 52 runs to the score after losing 2 wickets. But believe me, what happened next would hardly have happened to any cricket team before. You start expecting a challenging total from the team playing at 52 runs for 2 wickets. But, after what happened to 8 Western Australian batsmen, their innings ended in just 53 runs. Which means that the next 8 batters were unable to add more than 1 run to the score.
What happened in the game with 8 batters?
Now the question is what happened to the remaining 8 batsmen as Western Australia’s score stopped at 53 runs. So what happened was that of the remaining 8 batters, only one was able to score 1 run. While the condition of the remaining 7 batsmen was so bad that they couldn’t even open their account. The two Tasmanian players who created a ruckus with the ball were responsible for the poor condition of 8 Western Australian batsmen. One of them was Billy Stanlake and the other was Beau Webster.
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2 bowlers together destroyed everything!
Webster, a right-arm fast bowler, dismissed 6 batsmen and conceded 17 runs in 6 overs in the match. While the other fast bowler Stanlake took 3 wickets for 12 runs in 7.1 overs. These Tasmanian bowlers together took Western Australia’s remaining 8 wickets in just 38 balls and gave away just 1 run during this period. Due to this chaos by the Tasmanian bowlers, Western Australia was reduced from 52/2 to 53/10.
Tasmania won the match by 51 balls.
Tasmania chased down the target of 54 runs given by Western Australia in just 8.3 overs i.e. 51 balls. However, in scoring so many runs, Tasmania also lost 3 wickets, showing that the pitch was also a boon to the players. But there is no denying that Western Australia’s batsmen have batted poorly; Otherwise, which team gets 8 batters out after scoring 1 run?
