The Pat Cummins-led Australia took the sphere against the Netherlands in the twenty fourth recreation of the World Cup donning black armbands on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on October 25. The five-time world champions are mourning the lack of fellow Aussie cricketer Fawad Ahmed’s second youngster.
The 41-year-old wily leg spinner took to ‘X’ on October 23 to share the unhappy information about his second kid’s tragic passing and captioned the put up as “Till we meet again my little angel, Unfortunately after a long struggle my little man has lost the painful & tough fight, I believe you are in a better place, we will miss you so much., I hope no one ever goes through this pain, Request for Prayers.”Â
Australia’s apex cricket governing physique, Cricket Australia shared a heartfelt put up on the tragedy and paid its condolences. “The thoughts of the Australian Cricket community are with former Australian spinner Fawad Ahmed after the passing of his young son. Our condolences are with Fawad, his family and friends in this terribly difficult time,” learn the caption.
Significantly, gamers from each side (Australia and the Netherlands) additionally noticed silence to mourn the dying of former India captain and legendary spinner Bishan Singh Bedi who handed away on October 23. The complete cricketing fraternity mourned the demise of Bedi and cricketers from around the globe took to social media to pay tribute to Bedi.
He was 77 years previous and plenty of of his teammates together with Kapil Dev, and Madan Lal to call a number of and different not too long ago retired India cricketers (Ashish Nehra, Virender Sehwag and co) attended his final rites on the Lodhi crematorium in New Delhi on October 24.
As far because the twenty fourth match of the World Cup is worried, Australia received the toss and elected to bat first.
