Vikrant Shekhawat : Jun 24, 2024, 11:56 PM
IND vs AUS: Team India defeated Australia by 24 runs in their last Super-8 match. With this win, Team India has made it to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. The team has reached the top-4 of this tournament for the 5th time. Australia won the toss and chose to bowl in St. Lucia, West Indies. Indian captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 92 runs. He missed out on scoring the fastest century in the T20 World Cup, although he scored the fastest half-century. He completed 92 runs in 41 balls. Hit 7 fours and 8 sixes and batted at a strike rate of 224. At one time his strike rate had reached 300.Then Suryakumar (31), Shivam Dubey (28) and Hardik Pandya (27) took the team's score to 205. The team scored 200+ for the first time in this T20 World Cup. For Australia, Josh Hazlewood gave only 14 runs in 4 overs and took one wicket. Apart from Hazelwood, every bowler gave more than 10 runs in their overs.In the run chase, Australia had scored 128 runs for two wickets in 13 overs. After that, the Indian bowlers made a strong comeback in the last 7 overs and stopped the Kangaroo team at a score of 181/7 in 20 overs.Arshdeep Singh took the wickets of Tim David, Matthew Wade and David Warner, while Kuldeep Yadav sent Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh to the pavilion. Bumrah turned the match in India's favor by taking the wicket of Travis Head (76 runs). Head played an innings of 76 runs in 43 balls.India defeated Australia by 24 runsThe Indian team made it to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup by defeating Australia by 24 runs with the help of a strong performance of the bowlers led by Arshdeep Singh after Rohit Sharma. India scored 205 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Rohit Sharma's innings of 92 runs, in reply, the Australian team could only score 181 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs and had to face its second consecutive defeat. For Australia, Travis Head scored 76 runs in 43 balls with the help of 9 fours and 4 sixes. He shared an 81-run partnership for the second wicket with captain Mitchell Marsh. At one time it seemed that the Australian team would win this match, but the Indian bowlers made a strong comeback and continued their winning campaign in the tournament. For India, fast bowler Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets, while wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav got 2 wickets.India beat Australia by 24 runsThe Indian team made it to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup by defeating Australia by 24 runs with the help of a strong performance by the bowlers led by Arshdeep Singh after Rohit Sharma. India scored 205 runs for five wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Rohit Sharma's innings of 92 runs, in response, the Australian team could only score 181 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs and had to face its second consecutive defeat. For Australia, Travis Head scored 76 runs with the help of nine fours and four sixes in 43 balls. He shared an 81-run partnership for the second wicket with captain Mitchell Marsh. At one time it seemed that the Australian team would win this match, but the Indian bowlers made a strong comeback and continued their winning campaign in the tournament. For India, fast bowler Arshdeep Singh took three wickets, while wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav got two wickets.Australia got a target of 206 runsBatting first, India scored 205 runs for five wickets in 20 overs with the help of captain Rohit Sharma's brilliant innings of 92 runs. India batted strongly in this match and set a target of 206 runs in front of Australia. This is the first time in this World Cup that India has scored 200 runs. Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first and Josh Hazlewood proved the captain's decision right by dismissing Virat Kohli without opening the account. However, Rohit was seen in a different color today and he took on the Kangaroo team's bowlers with stormy batting. Rohit completed his half-century in just 19 balls during this period.Rohit scored 29 runs from Starc's over and continued his strong batting. Rohit was moving towards a century at one time, but Starc ended his innings. Rohit hit seven fours and eight sixes in his innings of 41 balls. Rohit became the first batsman to hit 200 sixes in T20 International. Even though the Indian innings slowed down after Rohit's dismissal, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey and Hardik Pandya played some good shots to take the team's score past 200. At the same time, Virat Kohli once again failed and was out without opening his account for the second time in the tournament. Starc and Stoinis took two wickets each for Australia.