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Five Biggest Upsets in T20 Cricket World Cup History
The world started to recognize cricket sports even more in Europe after the latest T20 World Cup hosted by the USA Cricketing Board and West Indies.
The sports reached out to America, where many fans came up to watch the World Cup matches. However, how the USA cricket team performed and defeated Pakistan, one of the biggest upsets in World cricket, took it by storm in social media and the cricketing world.
What Is Upset In Cricket?
When the upper rank and stronger team is defeated by a team that ranks lower than 8 or more, calls upset. We are going to list down the top five biggest upsets in the T20 World Cup history, two of which happened in the recent ongoing World Cup.
List of Five Biggest Upsets in T20 Cricket World Cup History
1. Afghanistan Defeated Australia in the 2024 T20 World Cup
The world is going to remember the match when Afghanistan defeated the Australian team In the Super 8 Match of the T20 World Cup 2024, which was one of the most important matches for both teams, and that defeat led the Australian team to be knocked out of the World Cup.
The match was played at Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent, West Indies, when Afghanistan defeated Australia by 21 runs on June 23, 2024. After Afghanistan posted a total of 148 Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran’s 118-run partnership for the 1st wickets, the team even posted a good total of 148 others. Other batters of Afghanistan did not even cross the 15-run mark. Pat Cummins took the hat trick in the match, which is also his back-to-back hat trick in the T20 World Cup.
The bowling unit of Afghanistan was the real hero who made them win most of every match in the World Cup, and they performed well against Australia right from the start. Gulbadin Naib and Naveen-ul-Haq took the game in their own hand and defended a total of 148.
It was one of the biggest upsets in World Cricket, but many legendary cricketers like Brain Lara said this was not an upset because he picked Afghanistan as one of the four semi-finalists of the T20 World Cup. The defeat Australia was knocked out of the World Cup as Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh in their next match.
Check out the Match Post View/Stats/ Result Here:- Afghanistan vs Australia Result
2. USA Defeated Pakistan In The 2024 ICC T20 World Cup
The Co-Host of the T20 World Cup 2024 surprised everyone in the World Cup with their stellar performance in every match, but the biggest upset came when the USA Team defeated the Pakistan team in the super over on June 6, 2024, at the Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, USA.
The Key Moment of the Match was the last over of the match when Aaron Jones and Nitish Kumar scored 14 runs in Haris Rauf’s over to take the match into super over in which they won the match by 5 wickets. Saurabh Netravalkar, the part-time cricketer, rebooted Pakistan’s cricketing software with his amazing bowling skills, and his skill in dealing with application software gave him the idea to hang the Pakistani cricket system.
The impact of the match was so big that in the end, Pakistan was knocked out in the group stage match, and the movement going to be in the history book of cricket as one of the biggest upsets in the T20 World Cup.
Namibia Defeated Sri Lanka In The 2022 ICC T20 World Cup
Many cricketing fans will not consider it a big upset, but the scenario of this game and Sri Lanka winning the Asia Cup in 2022 just before the start of the World Cup make it a very special win for Namibia, who got no chance before going in the match against Sri Lanka but the way they defeated the Sri Lanka side by 55 runs to give their fans one-sided match against the top team in the T20 format at that time should be written in the one of the biggest upset in the 2022 T20 World Cup. The match was played at the Simons Stadium in Geelong on October 16, 2022.
The key moment of the match was when Ben Shikongo took the back-to-back wickets of in-form Pathum Nissanka and Danushka Gunathilaka in his first over, changing the whole game in favor of Namibia while defeating the total of 164. Jan Frylinck’s all-round performance was another highlight of the match as he scored 44 runs in just 28 balls and took two wickets in his four-over spell.
The impact of the match was the confidence that Namibia gained, which made them fight in the coming 2024 T20 World Cup, in which they qualified to play the main event.
3. Afghanistan Defeated West Indies In The ICC 2016 T20 World Cup
The 2016 T20 World Cup will be remembered by Carlos Brathwaite, who hit four successive sixes in the final over the England allrounder Ben Stoke, who had to defend 19 runs in 6 balls, but it was Brathwaite day who won the 2nd T20 World Cup for the West Indies. However, many people don’t remember it, but the Afghanistan team only defeated the West Indies in the final match in the Super 10.
The match was played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, on March 27, 2016. In that match, Afghanistan defeated the West Indies team by 6 runs, and Najibullah Zadran was the impactful player for the Afghanistan side, who tasted their first T20 World Cup victory that gave them lots of boost in the cricketing world and right now they are in the semi-final of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup.
The Impact of the match was also had on West Indies, who did not take anyone lightly after that match and won the T20 World Cup title second time.
4. Netherlands Defeated England In The ICC 2009 T20 World Cup
The Netherlands, in the 2009 World Cup, defeated England by four wickets in the tournament’s first match, which stunned everyone as it was not the expectations fans had in the very 1st match, which raised the hopes of every small team in that World Cup. It was a class chase by the Netherland batters who won the match on the last ball when the home ground of Cricket and inventor of the sports got defeated by their nebhiours Netherlands.
The impact of the win remained in the Netherlands’ heart, and then, in the 2014 T20 World Cup, they once again defeated the England team to show the world that it was not the magic they did in the 2007 T20 World Cup. It was the skill and passion of players that drove them to win the match against the giants like England.
5. Zimbabwe Defeated Australia In The ICC 2007 T20 World Cup
The inauguration of the T20 World Cup showed the world that this format can be very cruel to big teams like Australia, which was defeated by Zimbabwe, which is no longer an official ICC-recognized team in the year 2024. It was the 4th match of the tournament on September 12, 2007, at Cape Town, South Africa, in which Zimbabwe defeated the mighty Australian team who had never lost any ICC World Cup tournament since 1999 faced the two defeated in the same tournament the first came against Zimbabwe when they beat them by 5 wickets in which the legendary player Brendan Taylor played the most impactful innings of 60 runs in just 45 balls.
The Impact it had in Australia was a bit brutal because since 1999, they had not seen any defeat in the tournament where they failed to clinch the trophy, but in the same tournament, they were knocked out by India in the Semi-Finals by India who won the first T20 World Cup in the Final against Pakistan, and it was the rise of the MS Dhoni as the captain who later won every ICC Trophy.
Here are five of the biggest upsets we’ve seen in the history of the ICC T20 World Cup. Feel free to share your thoughts on which of these upsets you think was the biggest in the comments section below.
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