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India reached the semi-finals of the ninth edition of the T20 World Cup after defeating Australia. Former world champions Australia were in danger of exiting before the semi-finals after losing the battle of Bachamara.

Bangladesh cricket team will face Afghanistan at 6:30 am today in Kingston, West Indies. If the Afghans win that match, they will advance to the semi-finals. Then Australia’s forehead will burn.

However, if Bangladesh scores 160 runs and wins by 62 runs against Afghanistan in the match that will start this morning; Then the points of Australia, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be equal to 2. Those who will be ahead in run rate among these three teams will go to the semi-finals. Australia has more chances in that case.

After losing the toss and batting first, the Indian cricket team built a mountain of 205 runs for 5 wickets against Australia by Rohit Sharma’s batting rampage.

Chasing the target, Australia was in a good position with 128 runs for 2 wickets in 13 overs. Ajira was dreaming of winning with an average of 10 runs per over. But then the former champions lost.

Australia were virtually knocked out of the match by losing the wickets of four recognized batsmen Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, opener Travis Head and wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade in a gap of just 25 runs.

Australia could not score more than 181 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs due to the fall of one wicket after another. Opener Travis Head scored the maximum 73 runs off 43 balls for the team. India won by 24 runs. Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav bowled well in the team’s win.

On this day, Australia sent India to bat first after winning the toss at West Indies’ Darren Sammy Stadium. Virat Kohli lost his wicket in the second over of the innings. He returned for zero runs off 5 balls.

After that, captain Rohit Sharma went on rampage. Rohit scored a fifty with the help of 5 sixes and four fours in just 19 balls by hitting one boundary after another.

Rohit played a brilliant innings of 92 runs from 41 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 7 fours. By playing this innings, Rohit surpassed Pakistan captain Babar Azam and former Indian captain Virat Kohli to set the record for runs in international T20. Rohit collected 31 fifties and 4 thousand 165 runs in 5 centuries in 149 innings.

Babar Azam, Pakistan’s captain, was the top scorer in T20Is by scoring 4,145 runs in 116 innings. Virat Kohli was in the second position with 4 thousand 3 runs in 115 innings.

After Rohit got out, Suryakumar Yadav scored 31 runs in just 16 balls with three fours and two sixes. Shivam Dubey scored 28 runs off 22 balls with two fours and a six. Hardik Pandya scored 27 runs in 17 balls with one four and two sixes.