A strange feat happened for the first time in cricket history, Austria needed 61 runs in 12 balls to win, the batsmen scored it

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|15-07-2024

Austria: Every day some records are made on the cricket field and old records are broken, but this time the players have done such a feat, which has never happened in the history of cricket till date. Actually, in the match played between Austria and Romania (Austria vs Romania), the team of Austria had to score 61 runs in 12 balls to win. Which was an impossible target, but the team of Austria achieved this target, creating history.

Austria created history, achieved the target by scoring 61 runs in 12 balls

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In a match of the ECI10 series played between Austria and Romania on July 14, Romania's cricket team batting first scored a huge score of 167 runs in 10 overs by losing one wicket. In response, Austria's cricket team, which came out to chase the big target, at one point stood on the verge of defeat and everyone thought that Romania would win this match easily.

But after this, the Austrian team did such a feat which had never happened in the history of cricket till date.

Victory snatched from the jaws of Romania

At one point, the Austrian cricket team was playing after losing three wickets for 107 runs in 8 overs and by this time, it needed 61 runs to win in two overs i.e. 12 balls, which was an impossible target. But after this, Manmeet Kohli comes to bowl the 9th over and on his first ball, Imran takes a single and hands over the strike to Aqib Iqbal.

After this, Aqib Iqbal hits 6 boundaries in this over and 41 runs are scored in this over. Kohli bowls two no balls in this over.

The target was achieved with one ball remaining

After this, Austria needed 20 runs in the last over and Imran Asif, who came to bowl, hit a six on the first ball of Chamalka Fernando who came to bowl the last over and after that he took a single and gave the strike back to Imran Asif and Imran hit three consecutive sixes to put the victory in Australia's bag. In such a situation, when Austria needed 61 runs in the last 12 balls, then these two chased the score in 11 balls.

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