T20 World Cup 2024 Stats Review: Afghanistan's maiden win against Australia, most ha-tricks in T20 World Cups and other stats

Afghanistan bolstered their chances of making it to the semifinals of the 2024 T20 World Cup after a resounding win over Australia at Kingstown. The match against India is now a virtual quarterfinal for Australia while Afghanistan have a lease of life against a beleagured Bangladesh.

Australia put Afghanistan in and ran a very tight ship with Ashton Agar(0 for 17) being the main controller of run flow. Rahmanullah Gurbaz(60 off 49) and Ibrahim Zadran(51 off 49) hung around to stitch their third century stand of the tournament despite being very slow about it. Adam Zampa(2 for 28) then struck twice to induce a collapse that saw Afghanistan lose 3 wickets for 4 runs in 12 balls. Before Afghanistan could make a final push towards the death, Pat Cummins(3 for 28) silenced them with his second hattrick of the tournament and Afghanistan finished at what looked like a below par total. 

Australia had trouble with the chase, the chase started very slowly, and Naveen ul Haq(3 for 20) produced an early collapse that saw Australia lose three wickets in the powerplay, but the main hero of the defense was Gulbadin Naib(4 for 20). Naib oversaw Australia's second collapse of the innings depsite Glenn Maxwell(59 off 41)'s best efforts. And once Naib was done, Australia couldn't do much more than aimlessly wander around to a 21 run-loss.

Here are the major stats from the game:

1 - This is Afghanistan's first win over Australia in any format of international cricket.

1 - Pat Cummins became the first player to take multiple hattricks in T20 World Cups.

5 - Pat Cummins became the fifth bowler to take multiple T20I hattricks. Lasith Malinga and Tim Southee are the only other ones from full member nations.

2 - Pat Cummins became the second bowler to take hattricks in consecutive matches in international cricket. Wasim Akram had also done it in successive Tests against Sri Lanka in 1999.

3 - This was Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran's third century stand in the tournament. They are the first pair to register three ceentury stands in a single edition of the T20 World Cup. Adam Gilchrist & Matthew Hayden in 2007; Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma in 2014; followed by Babar Azam & Mohammad Rizwan are the other pairs to register two in a single tournament. 

2 - Gurbaz and Zadran are the second pair to register 3 century stands in the T20 World Cup. The only other pair with three are "RizBar". 

2 - Rahsid Khan is the second captain to take 10 or more wickets at a single edition of the T20 World Cup. Daniel Vettori had taken 11 in the 2007 edition. 

4 - Rashid Khan is the fourth player to take 10 or more wickets as captain in T20 World Cups. Daniel vettori leads the chart with 18, while Stuart Broad follows with 11. Rashid at 10 is tied with Shakib al Hasan.