Pakistan Out of Cricket World Cup 2019, New Zealand Confirm Spot in Semi-Finals; Finish Fourth on CWC19 Points Table
Talking about the exact figures, the Pak with NRR -0.792 needed to score 350 runs while batting first and bowl out Bangladesh for 39 runs, an event which can be called as a fascinating and unrealistic situation to think about. The situation arose as Kiwis lost their last three matches of CWC 2019 and ended on 11 points on the points table.
Pakistan bowed out of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 after they failed to restrict Bangladesh to a specific total. After batting first Pakistan posted 315 runs and then needed to bowl out Bangladesh for just six runs to go past New Zealand's Net Run Rate. With this, all the possibilities of an already impossible task of defeating Bangladesh by a margin of more than 300 runs end and Pakistan are out of the 2019 World Cup. And this confirms New Zealand place in the World Cup semi-finals. ICC Hilariously Trolls Pakistani Fans After Imam-Ul-Haq’s Hit-Wicket and Mohammad Hafeez's Dismissal During PAK vs BAN, CWC 2019.
So, it is Blackcaps who qualify for the last-four with 11 points and they now finish on the fourth spot. It means New Zealand will face either Australia or India in the first semi-final, which will be played at Manchester on June 9, 2019. Pakistan are now certainly playing their last game of ICC Cricket World 2019. Pakistan vs Bangladesh Cricket Score 43th ODI Match.
Pakistan, who are placed on the 5th spot on the points table, needed some impossible margins of victory to get a semi-final ticket in CWC 2019. The 1992 World Cup champions needed to bat first and defeat 2018 Asia Cup runners-up by over 300 plus runs, to leapfrog over New Zealand in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 points table.
Talking about the exact figures, the Pak with NRR -0.792 needed to score 350 runs while batting first and bowl out Bangladesh for 39 runs, an event which can be called as a fascinating and unrealistic situation to think about. The situation arose as Kiwis lost their last three matches of CWC 2019 and ended on 11 points on the points table. Imam-ul-Haq Scores Century During PAK vs BAN ICC CWC 2019.
Pak have nine points at present but the most crucial thing for Pakistan was to win the toss anyhow, as only batting first would have given the Sarfaraz-led side an opportunity to overhaul Kiwis’ net run rate of +0.175. But unfortunately for the Pakistan national cricket team, the luck was not at all on their side at Lord’s today.
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