India produced a shocking run-chase victory over West Indies to safe a semi-final place and knock their opponents out of the T20 World Cup in a five-wicket victory of their final Tremendous 8s match.
A swashbuckling Sanju Samson innings (97no off 50), bettering Virat Kohli’s file to notch the best rating by an Indian batter in a chase at a T20 World Cup, secured the profitable runs with 10 runs in two last-over balls to match West Indies’ substantial complete of 195 with simply 4 balls to spare.
India will now face England in Mumbai of their T20 World Cup semi-final conflict in Mumbai on Thursday fifth of March at 1:30pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
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Highlights from the T20 World Cup as India thumped Zimbabwe by 72 runs to remain within the hunt for a semi-final place.
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Highlights of India’s conflict with Pakistan on the T20 World Cup in Colombo.
A middle-order flurry by Jason Holder (37no off 22) and Rovman Powell (34 nooff 19) consolidated the helpful scores of captain Shai Hope (32 off 33) and fellow opener Roston Chase (40 off 25) to offer West Indies their substantial complete of 195-4 to defend.
Hope’s facet had hope after taking the early wickets of struggling opener Abishek Sharma (10 off 11) and no 3 Ishan Kishan (10 off 6), earlier than captain Suryakumar Yadav (18 off 16) was caught within the tenth over to place the hosts below stress.
India’s center order, although, held agency. Tilak Varma (27 off 15) pushed the run charge again up, and West Indies have been made to rue Jason Holder’s dropped catch of Hardik Pandya (17 off 16) within the sixteenth over as the short scoring no.6 partnered properly with Samson.
The opener partnered with a composed Shivam Dube (8no off 4) to see his facet residence and capped his record-breaking efficiency with two profitable boundaries to ship the Kolkata crowd into raptures.
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