The world has been taken over by the Olympic fever. Whether you’re from England or China or India or Australia, you’re surely hooked on to the Olympics 2021 event taking place in Tokyo right now. The best part about the games is that it causes a sense of patriotism and recently, we received images of Australia’s cricket team glued on to their screens to support Olympian Brandon Starc.
For cricket fans, that surname is very famous as Mitchell Starc happens to be one of the world’s quickest and you can say, most dangerous pacers as well. The Australian cricket team is currently in Dhaka for the 2021 Australia tour of Bangladesh and the team was supported cheering on Mitchell’s younger brother Brandon, who is an athlete at the ongoing 2021 Olympic Games.
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The 27-year old Brandon Starc was participating in the men’s high jump event and he qualified from the group stages to make the men’s high jump final. The final was played yesterday and unfortunately, Starc finished just short of an Olympic medal, jumping a height of 2.35m and finishing 5th in the final, while the winner’s jump stood at 2.37m.
Australia is playing a 5-match T20I series at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Dhaka which begins on 3rd August 2021 and the team was spotted during a practice session watching Brandon Starc’s efforts at Tokyo 2020. The video of the same was posted on the official social media handles of cricket.com.au. See below:
Scenes from Dhaka last night as the Aussies put training on hold to watch Brandon Starc, Mitch's brother, compete in the high jump final #Tokyo2020 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/wgiZyNI4o0
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) August 1, 2021
Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tambero ended up sharing the gold medal at this event. For similar news and updates from the world of cricket as well as from the Tokyo Olympics 2021, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com…
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