The 26th match of World Cup tournament will be played between defending champions Australia and Bangladesh at Trent Bridge on Thursday, June 19. Australia has so far lost just one game out of 5 and is placed on the second position on the points table while Bangladesh has won two matches and is placed on the 5th position with 5 points.
Australia is in good form as the team has won all its matches except one that they lost to India at Oval. With Aaron Finch's 153 and Steve Smith's 73 Australia posted good total against Sri Lanka in their last match. Mitchell Starc's brilliant bowling spells gave an early victory to Australia by 87 runs.
Bangladesh began its world cup campaign with the victory against South Africa and made its strong presence in the tournament. The team won its last match against West Indies at County ground. Shakib Al Hasan got maximum of 124 runs vs West Indies and would look to get similar runs when his team comes to take on with defending Champions Australia
Australia: David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Pat Cummins
Bangladesh:Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman
Total: 3
Australia: 2
Bangladesh: 0
NR: 1
Australia: David Warner, Aaron Finch, Usman Khwaja, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa and Nathan Coulter-Nile
Bangladesh:Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Liton Das, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mehidy Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Mustafizur Rahman
Date: Thursday, 19th June 2019
Time: 03:00 PM IST
Venue: Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Live : Star Network
Online Streaming: Hotstar
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On the other hand, it was difficult for Ben's father Gerard Stokes who was watching the final back in New Zealand and cheering for blackcaps whether to celebrate his son's effort or to be sad for his country's loss.
In terms of form, Australia has been one of the top performers in the league stages, losing just two matches in nine games. They comfortably thumped England by 64 runs at Lord's during the league stage. Australia finished second in the table with 14 points in nine matches.
Both the teams will fight to fix their spot in the semi-finals.
The century against bangladesh on Tuesday took Rohit to the top of most run scorers of 2019 World Cup surpassing David Warner.
India currently holds the second spot on the points table with 11 points while Bangladesh occupies the 6th spot with seven points.
Shankar is likely to be replaced in the squad by Karnataka opener Mayank Agarwal, who made his Test debut against Australia last year, has not yet played in the ODI format.
Sri Lanka holds the 7th position on the World Cup points table with 6 points while West Indies is on 9th with just one victory and three points.
With 11 points and no losses India occupies the second spot on the points table while England is on 5th with 8 points.
Australia tops on the points table with 12 points while New Zealand is spotted on third with 11 points.
Pakistan is placed at the 6th position on the points table with 7 points while Afghanistan is at the rock bottom and yet to open its account.