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'Shafali Verma scored more runs than whole team': Australian cricket team gets trolled after being bowled out for 62

The second-string Australian team lost the T20I series 1-4 against Bangladesh owing to poor batting performances on spinning tracks in Dhaka.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Aug 10, 2021, 01:08 PM IST

'Shafali Verma scored more runs than whole team': Australian cricket team gets trolled after being bowled out for 62

Australian Cricket team was bowled out for 62 runs against Bangladesh as users on Twitter came up with hilarious reactions | Photo: Birmingham Phoenix / ICC

Australian Cricket team have had a tough start to August as they faced a thrashing at the hands of Bangladesh in the five-match T20I series losing 1-4. Bangladesh led by Mahmudullah bowled out the Matthew Wade-led side for just 62 runs in the final match of the series to win by 60 runs and win a bilateral series for the first time ever in the history of the game.

Australia, owing to their batting collapses, looked like never showed up in this series. Apart from Mitchell Marsh, who continued his splendid form from the series against West Indies, which too the Aussies lost 1-4, none of the other batsmen could offer any resistance as the spin, turn and the grip in the surface of Sher-e Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka resulted in their undoing.

Yes, the visitors were here without the likes of David Warner, Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Steve Smith, who are much more experienced and have been playing cricket on sub-continent pitches for a long time now, but as stand-in skipper, Wade said, 'it was just not good enough from an Australian Cricket team'.

As soon as the match ended, the visitors started getting bashed on Twitter not just from fans but from cricketers and journalists as well labelling their performance poor. Former England captain, Michael Vaughan too joined the fun, while England journalist and former cricketer Isabelle Westbury said that Shafali Verma playing in The Hundred for Birmingham Phoenix scored more than the whole team in half less deliveries referring to her knock of 76* off just 42 balls against the Welsh Fire on Monday.

Aussies bowled out for 62 … Time for a pint !!!!

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) August 9, 2021

Facing almost half as many balls. Ah, it just gets better.
— Isabelle Westbury (@izzywestbury) August 9, 2021

While it was their lowest ever score in T20Is, it was also their shortest innings as far as the balls faced were concerned as the whole team was bowled out in 13.4 overs, i.e., 82 balls. Fans too took digs at the Australian team with hilarious memes and reactions, here are some of it:

Bangladesh Cricket team To Australia in T-20 series #BANvAUS pic.twitter.com/IDi6bSrbSS
— अभिषेक_कुमार (@Abhishek887777) August 9, 2021

Australia 62 all out! Their lowest T20I score ever.

Bangladesh win by 60 runs. They didn't even celebrate like they always do.

A new low for Australian cricket! #BANvAUS pic.twitter.com/FOX4GcqvWv
— Vinesh Prabhu (@prabhu_vinesh94) August 9, 2021

The view in Australia about what's been happening in Bangladesh is that we had a great Olympics.
— Brydon Coverdale (@brydoncoverdale) August 10, 2021

Not just against Bangladesh: they have lost five series in a row, all against different teams.

6 wins, 15 defeats.

Not a great side if we go by performance.

A champion side if we go by IPL contracts. https://t.co/EACwdJud1w
— Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT) (@ovshake42) August 9, 2021

Australia all out for 62 vs Bangladesh

Their lowest ever total in a IT20.#BANvAUS pic.twitter.com/GFHFiFo3XD
— England's Barmy Army (@TheBarmyArmy) August 9, 2021