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As It Happened: Australia vs Afghanistan, 26th World Cup Match in Perth
Live cricket score and ball-by-ball commentary from the 26th World Cup match between Australia and Afghanistan at the W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth on Wednesday.
David Warner celebrates scoring 150 against Afghanistan.© Getty Images
Australia flexed their batting muscles to rack up the highest ever World Cup total as they crushed Afghanistan by a tournament record margin to revive their stuttering campaign on Wednesday. Catch all the highlights of the match here: (SCORECARD | POINTS TABLE)
Opener David Warner's career-best 178 and middle order batsman Glenn Maxwell's 88 from a 39-ball blitz powered the four-time champions to 417 for six wickets at the WACA ground.
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Live Score - Australia vs Afghanistan
Man of the Match goes to David Warner for his fantastic 178. That is it from us. Hope you enjoyed our coverage. Do join us tomorrow for the game between Bangladesh and Scotland at 0300 IST. Till then, goodbye!
Then came Clarke and Maxwell who chipped in with a wicket each. Starc then struck twice in one over and eventually Johnson and Hazlewood ran through the lower order. It was always about survival for the Afghans and they somewhat did survive against this harrowing Aussie bowling line up. In the end it is Australia's biggest margin of victory in ODIs and the biggest margin in World Cups.
Australia have crushed their opponents after scoring a mammoth total. It was a top performance by the Aussie top order as Warner, Smith and Maxwell flayed the Afghan bowlers all over the park. They managed to score the highest total in World Cups, 417/6. The visitors started on a decent note, did not give away wickets initially but once the first wicket fell, it was mayhem. Johnson ran through the top order and Hazlewood too got a wicket.
OUT! Done and dusted! Short on off, Hassan tries to pull that one but does not get the timing right and the ball balloons to mid on where Warner takes a sitter. AUSTRALIA WIN BY 275 RUNS.
Pitched up on off, driven through covers for a couple.
Short on off, cut to point where the fielder stops it with a diving effort.
Short and outside off, left alone.
Full and just outside off, pushed to covers.
DROPPED! Yorker length just outside off, Zadran squeezes it towards the third slip where Smith puts a one-handed effort but fails to pouch it.
Short and just outside off, left alone.