India won the final Super-8 match of the T-20 World Cup with 4 balls remaining. Sanju Samson was the hero of the match, who played an excellent inning of 97 runs. Apart from Sanju, only Tilak Verma was the one who supported Samson by scoring important 27 runs but for a short while. Wickets kept falling from one side, but Sanju stood firm and ultimately led the team to victory.
In a match which is do or die for any team, such performance of the team will raise questions on any world class team. Wickets kept falling at regular intervals for the Indian team chasing 196 runs. After the dismissal of Abhishek and Ishaan, even the prediction table started believing that India’s chance of victory was only 27 percent, whereas West Indies’ victory percent was 73 percent. Even if we leave out this match, except one or two matches since the beginning of the World Cup, the situation has been the same in most of the matches. The Indian team won the match, but team effort was not visible in any match. Only one or two players were the heroes of the victory.
India won the match by 29 runs. The team had a very bad start in this match. By the end of the first power play, the team had lost 4 wickets for 46 runs. Suryakumar became the hero in the match and scored a brilliant 84 runs on 49 runs. India scored 161 runs. Apart from Surya, Tilak was the one who scored 25 runs. India’s bowling was sharp in the match. Mohammad Siraj took 3 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs, while Arshdeep Deep Singh took 2 wickets for 18 runs. The hero of the match was Surya Kumar Yadav.
In this match played in Delhi on 12 February, India won by 93 runs. India had scored 209 runs in the match. Indian batsmen performed well in this match. Especially Ishan Kishan played a brilliant inning of 61 runs in 24 balls, while Hardik Pandya added 52 runs in 28 balls. India’s bowling also showed its edge in the match, Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for 7 runs in 2 overs, while Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets each. Bumrah and Arshdeep also got one wicket each.
India won the match by 61 runs. This was a match where Abhishek Sharma was out for zero for the second consecutive time, but little team effort was visible in the match. Ishan Kishan made the match one-sided by playing an inning of 77 runs in 40 balls. In that match, Surya Kumar Yadav had scored 32 runs, while Tilak Verma had contributed 25 runs and Shivam Dubey had contributed 27 runs. The match was against Pakistan, hence the bowling was sharp and Hardik, Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets each.
In this match played in Delhi on 12 February, India won by 93 runs. India had scored 209 runs in the match. Indian batsmen performed well in this match. Especially Ishan Kishan played a brilliant inning of 61 runs in 24 balls, while Hardik Pandya added 52 runs in 28 balls. India’s bowling also showed its edge in the match, Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for 7 runs in 2 overs, while Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets each. Bumrah and Arshdeep also got one wicket each.
India won the match by 61 runs. This was a match where Abhishek Sharma was out for zero for the second consecutive time, but little team effort was visible in the match. Ishan Kishan made the match one-sided by playing an inning of 77 runs in 40 balls. In that match, Surya Kumar Yadav had scored 32 runs, while Tilak Verma had contributed 25 runs and Shivam Dubey had contributed 27 runs. The match was against Pakistan, hence the bowling was sharp and Hardik, Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets each.
In this match played in Ahmedabad, India won by 17 runs. Shivam Dubey’s bat shone in this match, who scored 66 runs on 31 balls. Surya Kumar Yadav had scored 34 runs. The team had scored 193 runs. Tilak Verma and Shivam Dubey also scored runs in the match. Varun Chakraborty took a hat-trick in bowling. He gave 14 runs in 3 overs, while Bumrah and Hardik also got 1 wicket each, Shivam Dubey also took two wickets in the match.
South Africa won the match. India bowled first in the match. Bumrah bowled well, taking 3 wickets for just 15 runs in 4 overs. However, no other bowler could do wonders. In the match, David Miller scored 63 runs on 35 balls, while Brewis also played a good innings, taking Africa to 187 runs. In reply, Shivam Dubey was the highest run scorer from the Indian team, who had scored 42 runs, apart from this no player could even cross the 20 run mark. The team was reduced to 111 runs.
In this match played on 26 February, India presented the most powerful batting. Sanju Samson was brought back in this match, who along with Abhishek Sharma added 80 runs in the powerplay. Abhishek Sharma scored his first half-century in the T20 World Cup in 26 balls. Suryakumar had scored 33 runs on 13 balls. The highlight of the match was the batting of Hardik Pandya and Tilak Verma, who scored 50 runs in 23 balls and 44 runs in 16 balls respectively. In bowling, Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets for 24 runs.
This match played in Eden Garden was already considered to be high scoring. In the match, Rovman Powell and Jason Holder thrashed the Indian bowlers in the last overs and took the score to 195 runs. In reply, Sanju Samson was the only one from the Indian team who remained intact. He played a match winning inning of 97 runs. Abhishek-Ishan Kishan once again could score only 10 runs each, Surya Kumar Yadav contributed 18 runs, Tilak Verma was the only one who scored 27 runs. Thanks to Sanju Samson’s batting, the team won but the question remained that if Sanju Samson was out first then who would have been the captain of the team.
India’s match is now against England on March 5. This is the second semi-final, which will decide which team is going to the final. In such a situation, the Indian team will have to focus on some things.
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