India on Monday assured themselves a semifinal spot after they defeated Australia by 24 runs, placing them getting ready to elimination. The 2021 champions will now should maintain a eager eye on the match between Afghanistan and Bangladesh on Tuesday morning, hoping for a win for the Bangla Tigers.
Defending 205, India bought off to a perfect begin after Arshdeep Singh despatched again David Warner within the very first over. However the Males in Blue’s serial tormentor Travis Head constructed up partnership with captain Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell to regular the Aussies.
Kuldeep would snare each Marsh and Maxwell whereas Hardik Pandya snapped up Marcus Stoinis cheaply as Head nonetheless remained unbeaten. He would finally fall for 76 as Australia suffered a collapse with Tim David and Matthew Wade each getting dismissed in fast vogue.
India will now tackle England within the semifinal match on June 27 in Guyana.
Earlier, Rohit Sharma mixed brute pressure with magnificence in his 92 off 41 balls as India amassed 205 for 5 towards Australia on a belter of their ultimate Tremendous Eights fixture of the T20 World Cup.
On the most effective batting floor of the match, Australia put India in to bat and Rohit made the many of the circumstances with a chic knock comprising seven fours and eight sixes together with a recording extending two hundredth within the format. It was the beginning of one thing particular when Rohit flicked Mitchell Starc for 4 within the first over of the sport.
Virat Kohli (0) on the different finish mistimed a pull off Josh Hazlewood within the following over to be caught within the deep.
Strolling the speak as soon as once more, Rohit by no means took the foot off the pedal and went hammer and tongs towards Starc, whose second over yielded as many as 29 runs, his costliest within the format. Rohit did bulk of the harm in his 87-run stand with quantity three Rishabh Pant (15 off 14), who welcomed leg-spinner Adam Zampa into the assault with a six over long-on.
Credit score should go to India for not permitting another bowler to settle right into a rhythm. Rohit introduced his fifty at finish of the fifth over with a single and that was additionally the quickest of the match.
Rohit unleashed a six over additional cowl when Marcus Stoinis got here into the assault within the eighth over.
Such was the authority of Rohit’s innings that he might select his spot towards all of the bowlers of reputation. It might have been a well-deserved 100 however Starc got here again to take away the India skipper with a yorker.
Suryakumar Yadav (31 off 15), Hardik Pandya (27 not out off 17) and Shivam Dube (28 off 22) additionally performed their half however India couldn’t take advantage of the final 5 overs, scoring solely 43 runs for the lack of one wicket.
(With Company Inputs)
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