The T20 World Cup is going to start from June 2 and to prepare for it, all the teams are currently playing warm-up matches. In this series, Australia played its warm-up match against Namibia yesterday. In this match, the Australian team had only 9 players and to complete their playing XI, they included Chief Selector George Bailey and support staff in the team.

Now you must be wondering what happened with the Australian team that they did not even have 11 players for this match. Actually, three players of Australia were a part of the recently concluded IPL final. At the same time, some players were not available for the team, so today they had only 9 players who are part of the team for this upcoming World Cup.

According to ICC rules, no team can use reserve players in practice matches. However, the help of support staff can be taken only in fielding. Australia did the same. They took the help of coaching staff and support staff and included chief selector George Bailey in the playing XI.

This is what happened in the match between Namibia and Australia

Talking about the match Australia The team won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Namibia could only score 119 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. During this, John Green scored the highest 38 runs for the Namibian team. Apart from him, no batsman could even touch the figure of 20. At the same time, Adam Zampa was the most successful bowler for Australia. Adam Zampa took 3 wickets. At the same time, Josh Hazlewood gave only 5 runs in 4 overs and took 2 wickets.

Australia had to score 120 runs in 20 overs to win this match. But Australia chased this target in just 10 overs. During this Australia lost only 2 wickets. David Warner played the biggest innings for the Australian team. He remained unbeaten after scoring 54 runs in 21 balls.