After the heavy defeat to South Africa in the ICCT World Twenty20, the Indian team’s progress to the semi-finals is in jeopardy.
South Africa beat India by 76 runs in the Super Eights match on Sunday. Chasing a target of 188 runs, the Indian team was bowled out for just 111 runs.
This is India’s biggest defeat in terms of runs in T20 World Cup history. Earlier in the 2010 edition, the Australian team defeated them by 49 runs.
After this result, India’s position in Group 1 of the Super Eight has weakened. This group includes South Africa, West Indies and Zimbabwe while only two teams will qualify for the semi-finals.
India’s net ratio has been greatly affected by this crackdown and is currently at less than 3. In such a scenario, India will have to win their remaining two matches against Zimbabwe and West Indies by huge margins. In addition, he will have to keep an eye on the results of other teams.
According to the likely scenario, if West Indies beat South Africa, Zimbabwe lose all their matches and India win both of their matches, all three teams could be tied on four points. In such a case, reaching the semi-finals will be decided on the scoreline, which India seems to be struggling at the moment.
It is worth saying that now not only victory is enough for the Indian team but it is necessary to win with a big margin.
