The combined contribution of the batters added up to 306 runs. But on the pitch suitable for batting, the Bangladeshi bowlers remained completely calm and dull.
Mitchell Marsh scored an explosive century on them. Bangladesh ended the 2023 World Cup with a loss without finding an answer to the rampage of this Australian star.
Bangladesh lost to Ajid by a big margin of 8 wickets in their last match of this tournament in Pune on Saturday. Marsh played an unbeaten innings of 177 runs. He hit 17 fours and 9 sixes in 132 balls. He added an unbroken 175 runs off 135 balls in a third wicket partnership with Steven Smith. Smith remained unbeaten on 63 runs off 64 balls.
Australia set a record for chasing goals on the World Cup stage. They never had the precedent of winning by chasing more than three hundred runs. Glenn Maxwell’s superhuman innings of 292 was their previous highest against Afghanistan in the previous match.
Although aiming to play in the semi-finals, Bangladesh ended this season by winning only two out of nine matches. Chandika Hathurusingha’s men have lost all but wins against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
