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Glenn Maxwell has withstood an apparent back injury to produce the best knock by any Australian in ODI history, pulling his side from the brink of collapse with a double hundred to beat Afghanistan at the Cricket World Cup. The miraculous three-wicket triumph in Mumbai on Tuesday , which looked impossible when Australia fell to 7-91, confirms Pat Cummins’ men will face South Africa in the semi-finals next week.
I was just trying to survive!” Still, it was only with about 20 minutes left that Cummins felt Australia could really pull off the miracle, even believing that the 35-year-old might have to be “stretched off” with his cramping woes. “His back was cramping pretty early on, then just hamstrings, calves. For one over he said his toe was gone,” reported Cummins.
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