Australia flexed their batting muscles to rack up the highest ever World Cup total as they crushed Afghanistan by a tournament record margin to revive their stuttering campaign on Wednesday.
Opener David Warner’s career-best 178 and middle order batsman Glenn Maxwell’s 88 from a 39-ball blitz powered the four-time champions to 417 for six wickets at the WACA ground. Michael Clarke’s men returned to bowl out Afghanistan for 142 in the 38th over for a 275-run victory in a mismatch between the most successful World Cup team and the tournament debutants.
India’s 413-5 against Bermuda in 2007 was the previous highest World Cup total with their 257-run win the biggest margin. CLARKE: Did the right thing by promoting Maxwell Nawroz Mangal (33) top scored for Afghanistan before Mitchell Johnson (4-22) and his fellow bowlers got them out. Having shared the points with Bangladesh after a washout in Brisbane and been pipped by New Zealand in Saturday’s low-scoring thriller, Australia needed a big win to revive their campaign and Afghanistan were easy meat for the world’s number one team. .. see more
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