DTVHINDIU-19 World Cup 2024: Who is Tom Straker? Know everything about the hero who took Australia to the final
Tom Straker was named player of the match for his match-winning spell. Tom Straker. (Image Source: X) ICC Men’s U-19 Cricket World Cup 2024: Australia’s young fast bowling sensation Tom Straker (Tom Straker) has left a deep impression by performing brilliantly with the ball against Pakistan in the semi-finals of the ongoing ICC Men’s Under-19 World Cup 2024 in South Africa. In fact, the 18-year-old talented fast bowler made headlines after defeating the young Pakistani batsmen. The right-arm fast bowler of the Australia Under-19 team, bowling explosively with line and length, took six wickets for just 24 runs in 9.5 overs and took his team to the final of the ongoing ICC Under-19 World Cup 2024. With this, Tom Straker registered his name in the record books by breaking the 10-year-old record of Kagiso Rabada’s best bowling figures (6/25) in an Under-19 World Cup semi-final or final. His brilliant bowling performance helped Australia snatch the match from Pakistan by 1 wicket. Straker was named player of the match for his match-winning spell. Who is Tom Straker? Meanwhile, Tom Straker was born on 19 March 2005 in Australia. This young fast bowler has represented the Australia Under-19 cricket team in all three formats of the game. So far he has played 7 ODIs, 1 Test and 1 T20I match at the youth level. He played his only Test match against the England Under-19 team in January 2023, where he recorded bowling figures of 3/58 and 1/48 in the first and second innings. And then the next month he made his debut in Youth ODI cricket against England Under-19 team. Tom Straker recorded figures of 2/32 and 1/9 in the two matches. Additionally, he also made his debut in Youth T20I cricket against England Under-19, where he recorded figures of 2/35 in 4 overs. Striker has taken a total of 12 wickets in five matches in the ongoing Under-19 World Cup 2024. Five best innings played by Indian captains in Under-19 World Cup 4 Indian bowlers who became number 1 bowler in test cricket List of batsmen who remained not out most number of times in IPL Top 4 Indian bowlers who took 150 wickets in least number of test matches List of foreign players earning big from IPL 2024 5 bowlers who have dismissed Joe Root the most number of times in Test cricket Fast bowlers who have taken more than 150 wickets for India in Test cricket Which player has scored the most runs for his franchise, see the complete list Top-5 bowlers who took most wickets against India in test format 4 Indian players who scored a double century in test cricket at the youngest age
U19 World Cup 2024: Tom Straker showed 6 batsmen of Pakistan the way back to the pavilion in the second semi-final.
In this match, Tom Straker gave 24 runs in 9.5 overs and sent 6 batsmen back to the pavilion. Tom Straker (Pic Source-Twitter) Currently, the second semi-final match of the ICC U19 World Cup 2024 is being played between Pakistan and Australia at Willowmoore Park in Benoni. In this match, Australia’s young fast bowler Tom Straker bowled tremendously and took 6 important wickets. Let us tell you, in this match Tom Straker gave 24 runs in 9.5 overs and sent 6 batsmen back to the pavilion. Not only this, Tom Straker made three of the top 4 batsmen of Pakistan his victims. Due to his lethal bowling, Pakistan U19 team was all out for 179 runs. Tom Straker has become the fifth player to take six or more wickets in a do-or-die match in the ICC U19 World Cup. Not only this, this is the third best bowling figure in the knockouts of this important tournament. Lloyd Pope took 8 wickets for 35 runs against England in the quarter-finals of the ICC U19 World Cup 2018. Not only this, in the quarter-finals of the 2008 edition of this magnificent tournament, South Africa’s Wayne Parnell took 6 wickets for 8 runs. Tom Straker’s bowling has been praised by many people. Australia needs 180 runs to win this match Let us tell you, Pakistan U19, batting first, scored 169 runs after losing all the wickets in 48.5 overs. On behalf of the team, Azan Awais scored 52 runs in 91 balls with the help of 3 fours while Arafat Minhas scored 52 runs in 61 balls with the help of 9 fours. Shamyl Hussain contributed 17 runs. Apart from these three players, no other player could cross the 10-run mark. Australia team needs 180 runs to win this match. The team has performed very well with batting in this match so far. Now it remains to be seen who among these two wins the match and makes it to the finals of this important tournament. Five best innings played by Indian captains in Under-19 World Cup 4 Indian bowlers who became number 1 bowler in test cricket List of batsmen who remained not out most number of times in IPL Top 4 Indian bowlers who took 150 wickets in least number of test matches List of foreign players earning big from IPL 2024 5 bowlers who have dismissed Joe Root the most number of times in Test cricket Fast bowlers who have taken more than 150 wickets for India in Test cricket Which player has scored the most runs for his franchise, see the complete list Top-5 bowlers who took most wickets against India in test format 4 Indian players who scored a double century in test cricket at the youngest age
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