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India beat Afghanistan by 47 runs in Super 8 of World Cup
Batting first, India scored 181 runs for 8 wickets. In reply, Afghanistan’s innings ended at 134 runs in 20 overs.
Barbados’ slow 22 yards did not help the bowlers but was not pleasant for the batters. Rohit did not make a mistake in reading the character of the pitch.
The Indian captain won the toss and elected to bat first. However, the start of India’s innings was not good. Rohit was dismissed by Fazalhaq Farooqui for 8 runs.
Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant tried a bit in the second wicket partnership. Rashid Khan put India under pressure by dismissing both of them in quick succession.
Kohli scored 24 runs off 24 balls. Hit 1 six. The Indian camp remained worried about his form. Pant scored 20 runs off 11 balls.
He hit 4 fours. Shivam Dube (10) could not give confidence to the team. The Afghan captain dismissed him. The Indians had trouble playing Rashid’s ball. India lost 4 wickets for 90 runs.
After this, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya took the helm. Their 60-run partnership for the fifth wicket removed the worries of the Indian camp.
Suryakumar scored 53 runs off 28 balls. He hit 5 fours and 3 sixes. Hardik scored 32 off 24 balls. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes. Ravindra Jadeja (7) failed.
Axar Patel batted a little aggressively towards the end. He scored 5 runs. Arshdeep Singh remained unbeaten on 2.
Rashid, Afghanistan’s most successful bowler, took 3 wickets for 26 runs. Farooqi took 3 wickets for 33 runs. Naveen-ul-Haq took 1 wicket for 40 runs.
Chasing a target of 182 runs to win, the Afghan innings fell under pressure at the beginning. Rahmanullah Gurbaz (11), Hazratullah Zazai (2) and Ibrahim Zadran (8) were dismissed in quick succession.
Jasprit Bumrah hit the opposition camp in the second over. Rohit was successful in bringing Axar into the attack in the fourth over. After this, Gulbadin Naib and Azmatullah Omarzai tried to fight a bit.
Afghanistan scored 66 runs for 3 wickets in 10 overs. Then the target of scoring runs per over increased to 11.6.
Naturally, the pressure is increasing in Rashid’s camp. The pressure increased further as the two batsmen who were frozen in 22 yards were out in succession.
Kuldeep Yadav dismisses Naib (17). Jadeja returned to Omarzai (26). After that, no other Afghan batter could play a match-winning innings.
Najibullah Zadran scored 19 runs off 17 balls. He hit two sixes. Bumrah also dismissed him. Mohammed Nabi’s efforts were not successful. Kuldeep scored 14 runs off 14 balls.
Rashid (2), Naveen (0) failed with the bat. After 9 wickets fell for 121 runs, the Afghans had no hope of winning.
Nothing much happened. In the end, Nur Ahmed scored 12 runs. Farooqi remained unbeaten on 4 runs.
India’s most successful bowler Bumrah took 3 wickets for 7 runs. Arshdeep took 3 wickets for 36 runs. Kuldeep took 2 wickets for 32 runs.
Kuldeep took 2 wickets for 32 runs. Akshar 1 for 15 runs. Hardik took 1 wicket for 20 runs.
Rishabh Pant breaks Gilchrist’s record
Wicketkeeper Pant has been named with the most wickets in a T20 World Cup. His gloves have been behind 10 wickets so far. He took three catches against Afghanistan.
Earlier, wicketkeepers like AB de Villiers, Adam Gilcris and Kumar Sangakkara played a role in the most wickets in a T20 World Cup. They all took nine wickets. Pant overtook them on Thursday.
Pant has also been in form with the bat in this year’s T20 World Cup. He scored 116 runs in four matches. Average 38.66. Strike rate 131.81.
India started Super 8 with a win over Afghanistan. After this, Rohit Sharma will play against Bangladesh and Australia.
India will play against Bangladesh on Saturday. We play Australia on Monday. These two matches are very important for India to reach the semi-finals.
Cummins’ first hat-trick this year’s T20 World Cup
Cummins dismissed Mahmudullah and Mehedi Hasan in the last two balls of the 18th over. After that, Tohid took the wicket of Hridoy in the first ball of the 20th over.
Before Cummins, six bowlers have taken hat-tricks in the T20 World Cup. The Australian pacer became the seventh bowler to take a hat-trick in the T20 World Cup.
Cummins is the second Australian after Brett Lee to achieve this feat in the T20 World Cup. It is to be noted that Lee’s hat-trick was also against Bangladesh.
Cummins took three wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. Bangladesh’s innings ended at 140 runs. Spinner Adam Zampa took two wickets.
Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell took one wicket each. Apart from captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto (41) and Tohid Hridoy (40), no one could score such runs for Bangladesh.
Batting with a target of 141 runs, Australia showed dominance from the beginning. They had scored 64 runs in 6.2 overs before rain stopped play for the first time.
Australia have not lost any wicket so far. Two openers David Warner (32) and Travis Head (31) were at the crease.
After the rain stopped, the match started. Head (31) and Mitchell Marsh (1) were out. Bangladesh were trying to return to the match. But Warner and Glenn Maxwell did not let it happen.
They were scoring quick runs. Play was stopped again after 11.2 overs. Rain falls. It was not possible to start the game after that.
At that time Australia scored 100 runs. Australia won the match by 28 runs in the Duckworth-Lewis method.
England beat West Indies by 8 wickets
Although the old England returned to the Super 8. They defeated West Indies by 8 wickets. Batting first, the Caribbeans scored 180 runs. Phil Salt scored the winning runs with 15 balls to spare.
In the group stage, the match against Scotland was canceled due to rain. England lost to Australia. In the next two matches, Jos Buttler defeated Oman and Namibia to secure a place in the Super 8.
We had to wait for Australia to win against Scotland. Phil Salt made England terrible again in the Super 8. Last month, his team Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL. Salt also played an important role for that team.
England captain Buttler won the toss and sent West Indies to bat on Thursday. The Caribbeans took 40 runs before Brandon King (23 runs off 13 balls) left the field after being injured in the fifth over.
The other opener Johnson Charles scored 38 runs off 34 balls. Nicholas Pooran (36) and Rovman Powell (36) also scored runs.
In the end, Sherfane Rutherford scored 28 runs in 15 balls to reach the team 180 runs. Andre Russell (1) did not get runs.
Salt started batting with a target of 181 runs. His partner Butler scored 25 runs off 22 balls. Moeen Ali scored 13 runs off 10 balls.
Salt and Jonny Bairstow did the rest. They shared a 97-run partnership. Bairstow scored 48 runs off 26 balls. Salt remained unbeaten on 87.
In the other match of this group, South Africa defeated the United States. England are ahead in the net run-rate.
Their next match is against South Africa. That match will be on Friday. The match between the United States and the West Indies is on Saturday morning.
South Africa beat USA by 18 runs to win Super 8
South Africa’s batsmen batted well in the West Indies. Opener Quinton de Kock returns to form. The other opener Reeza Hendricks did not get runs, but De Kock continued to lead the team with captain Aiden Markram.
They use the power play. The over was getting more than 10 runs. Jasdeep Singh gave South Africa the advantage. He scored 28 runs in his first over. De Kock scored a half-century.
The two batsmen shared a partnership of 110 runs. Harmeet Singh returns to the game for America. He dismissed De Kock and David Miller in two consecutive balls.
De Kock scored 74 runs off 40 balls. Miller was out for a duck. Sourav Netravalkar dismissed Markram for 46.
South Africa’s run rate slowed down a bit in the middle overs. As a result, they did not cross 200. In the end, South Africa scored 194 runs losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.
Heinrich Klaasen (36) and Tristan Stubbs (20) remained unbeaten on 20. In response, the U.S. started well. Openers Steven Taylor and Andreas Gouss were scoring runs quickly.
Kagiso Rabada gave America the first blow by dismissing Taylor for 24 runs. He also dismissed Nitish Kumar in the powerplay.
Opener Gaus played well, but he did not get anyone in the middle overs. After that, the wickets kept falling. Half of the team returned to the dressing room for 76 runs.
Captain Aaron Jones failed in this match. He was out for zero runs. Corey Anderson scored 12. Gaus did not give up on one side of the wicket. He scored a half-century. Harmeet accompanied him.
The two shared a 91-run partnership. The pair raised hopes for South Africa. But Rabada dismissed Harmeet at the end of 38 runs.
As a result, Gauss was left alone. In the last over, 26 runs were needed to win. America can score 7 runs. South Africa won by 18 runs. Gauss remained unbeaten on 80 off 47 balls.
Australia out of T20 World Cup
Australia are yet to be eliminated from the T20 World Cup. Australia lost to India in their last match of the Super 8 of the World Cup. Their going to the semi-finals depends on the Bangladesh-Afghanistan match.
India has reached the semi-finals with 6 points from 3 matches. Australia got two points from three matches. Their net run rate is -0.331.
Afghanistan has 2 points from 2 matches. Their net run rate is -0.650. Bangladesh have 0 points in two matches. Their net run rate is -2.489.
India won by 24 runs against Australia. Rohit Sharma scored 92 runs in the first innings. Later, Arshdeep and Jasprit Bumrah dominated the ball.
Australia tried to return to the match with the bat but did not succeed in the end. Rohit has secured a place in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.
Australia lost one wicket after another while playing big shots. Rohit Sharma turned the match on their side.
Otherwise, Indian cricketers were relieved to score 205 runs. India managed to win the match even after dropping one catch after another.
Afghanistan beat Bangladesh in a thrilling match
All three teams had the opportunity to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. In the end, Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh by 8 runs in the semi-finals. Australia is out.
Afghanistan scored 115 runs in the first innings. To reach the semi-finals, Bangladesh had to score that run in 12.1 overs. But Shakib Al Hasan could not do that.
The game was stopped repeatedly due to rain. Bangladesh’s goals have also changed. They needed 114 runs in 19 overs to win. In the end, Bangladesh lost by 8 runs.
Afghanistan lost to India in Super 8 but won against Australia and Bangladesh. Rashid reached the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup with four points. They have to play against South Africa.
Once in the rain-affected match, it seemed that Bangladesh would reach the semi-finals. Liton Dasera was scoring quick runs. But after the fall of the fifth wicket, Bangladesh suddenly stopped.
At that time, Liton’s game seemed to have forgotten that they had a chance to reach the semi-finals if they won in 12.1 overs. You have to give credit to Rashid and Noor Ahmed as well.
Bangladesh batsmen had trouble understanding their spin. Fazalhaq Farooqui and Naveen-ul-Haq opened the wickets. Bangladesh lost 3 wickets for 23 runs.
Rashid showed dominance in the middle overs. He took 4 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs. On the other hand, Nur did not get a wicket but gave 13 runs in 4 overs.
Bangladesh is in trouble. Of course, the failure of the middle order is behind their defeat. Liton will also have to take responsibility.
He was the only batter who stayed until the end. But the unbeaten Liton repeatedly gave strike with one run to Tanzim Hasan Shakib, Taskin Ahmed.
Many times it was seen that Liton had a chance to bat if he did not take a run in the last ball, but Bangladesh took one run there.
Many times, Liton, who scored a half-century, allowed the team’s bowlers to bat with a single in the first ball of the over. If he tried to play more balls, Bangladesh would have won.
Naveen was awarded the Man of the Match award. He took 4 wickets for 26 runs. However, Rashid was also a contender for the best award in this match against Bangladesh.
He took 4 wickets for 23 runs. Stop the run at an important time. Also, don’t forget that Rashid hit three sixes with the bat.
Those three sixes in his 10-ball innings gave the team a fighting ground. If Rashid did not score that run, his country could have lost.
Afghanistan will play South Africa in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. The semi-finals will be held on the morning of June 27. India and England will play in the second semi-final on the same day. Final on June 29.
India vs England T20 World Cup Semi-Final
The Indian team is also confident after the win against Australia. But will it be a semi-final? There is a chance of rain in Thursday’s match.
The India vs England match will begin at 8:00 PM IST on June 27. The match will be played in Guyana. There is an 88 percent chance of rain on Thursday.
The drainage system of the ground where the game is played is also not very good. If there is heavy rain before the match, then the outfield may be wet. In that case, the start of the game will be delayed.
It is not possible to play if it rains during the match. The possibility of the match being washed out cannot be ruled out.
The first semi-final of the T20 World Cup is on that day. But it will be in the morning. There is a reserve day for that match.
That is, for some reason, if not on Thursday morning according to Indian time, then Friday morning. India will play the second semi-final.
India and England met in the semi-finals of the 2022 T20 World Cup. Rohit Sharma will not want to remember that match though.
They were knocked out of the World Cup after losing to England. In this year’s World Cup, Rohit will have the opportunity to take revenge for that match.