The Dhaka Times Desk England and New Zealand, Pakistan and Australia will fight in the T-20 World Cup semi-finals, leaving aside all speculations.
In this year's T20 World Cup, there were 3 names in the list of favorites of almost all cricketers - India, England and West Indies. But in the end hot favorite India and last time champion West Indies could not make it to the semi-finals. However, India's departure from the Super Twelve and Windies' defeat, although unexpected, cannot be said to be an accident at all.
But everyone will say that the best four teams of the tournament have reached the last four in terms of performance. The World Cup is currently a four-team, three-match tournament after a marathon run of Super Twelves. England and New Zealand meet in the first semi-final in Abu Dhabi tomorrow. The next day, Pakistan and Australia are facing each other in the second semi in Dubai. The final match will be held in Dubai on November 14.
Analysts of the form of the four teams before the semi-finals say that Pakistan is currently the most advanced. Pakistan is the only unbeaten team in the tournament so far. Babar Azam's Pakistan team won 5 out of 5 matches in Super Twelve. The remaining three teams have won 4 out of 5 matches. In the T20 ranking, England is currently at the top of Pakistan. His perfect reflection was also seen in the performance. Both these teams became group champions. The other two semi-finalists are not far behind.
On the other hand, the third ranked team, India, has been beaten by New Zealand, which is ranked fourth. Australia came to the semis after beating South Africa in the fifth place in net run rate. India and South Africa finished third in the two groups. That is, the main fight was limited to the top 6 teams in the ranking.
But South Africa can consider themselves unlucky. Despite winning four matches like England and Australia, they have been left out in terms of run rate. But it must be remembered that the Proteas lost to Australia by 5 wickets in the encounter. And before they won by 10 runs against England in the last match, their departure was confirmed.
Again, India cannot be considered unfortunate in any way. The reason is that they left because of their poor performance. As happened in the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh had to leave sadly because of the performance alone. After miserable losses to Pakistan and New Zealand in the first two matches, they showed courage against smaller teams but could not overcome the early losses. Virat Kohli's India ended a disappointing World Cup with a meaningless match against Namibia yesterday. Kohli left the T20 leadership with the regret of not being able to win any title for India as the captain.
Why their failure? India's first World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev is also questioning the dedication of cricketers to the national team without bothering with batting-bowling. Seeing IPL as India's doom, Kapil said, 'When cricketers prioritize IPL over playing for the country, what else can be said. I think country should come first. They should be more proud to play for the country… the board should also take responsibility and plan better. This will be a big lesson for us so that we don't repeat the mistakes we have made this time.'
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