Team India on the verge of being out of T20 World Cup, Australia won the thrilling match by 9 runs

INDW vs AUSW Womens T20 World Cup 2024: India has lost against defending champion Australia by 9 runs. This match was very important for India from the point of view of reaching the semi-finals. Team India is still not out, but it will have to depend on other teams to reach the semi-finals. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur remained at the crease till the last over, but could not take the team to victory. He played an important inning of 54 runs in 47 balls.

In this match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, the Kangaroo team scored 151 runs. Regular captain Alyssa Healy did not play for Australia in this match, so Tahila McGrath captained her. McGrath scored 32 runs in the match and like him, Alice Perry also contributed 32 runs. The maximum runs for the team were scored by Grace Harris, who played an inning of 40 runs. Renuka Thakur and Deepti Sharma took two wickets each in bowling for India.

Team India scattered in the end

India had a target of 152 runs, but with the intention of achieving this target, the Indian team lost the wickets of all three top order batsmen till the score of 47. Smriti Mandhana failed in this match too, scoring only 6 runs. After 3 wickets at the score of 47, captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma took command. There was an important partnership of 63 runs between Harmanpreet and Deepti.

As soon as Deepti Sharma’s wicket fell on the score of 110, wickets started falling at regular intervals. At one time Team India had scored 110 runs at the loss of 3 wickets, but within the next 31 runs the team lost 6 wickets. Especially Harmanpreet found it difficult to take a single run on the first ball of the last over.

Is India out of the semi-finals?

Australia has secured a place in the semi-finals by winning all four matches in Group A. But there is still competition between India, Pakistan and New Zealand for the second place. Pakistan’s net run-rate is very weak, so there is little hope of it going to the semi-finals. But there is a very thorny competition between India and New Zealand.

Team India’s net run-rate is currently +0.322, while New Zealand also has four points like India and its net run-rate is +0.282. If India wants to go to the semi-finals, then it will have to hope that Pakistan defeats New Zealand at any cost. Even if New Zealand wins, Team India will have to keep an eye on whether the net run-rate of the Kiwi team becomes better than that.

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