Two matches, two destructive moral losses.
The Indian cricket team, marked as one of the toughest teams to be defeated in international cricket has been humbled in the first two matches they played at the T20 ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE.
10 Loss of goal to Pakistan, followed by 8 goal defeat in the hands of their traditional Bogey team in the ICC, Kiwi tournament, meant that the blue people looked at the exit were very early.
They still have three matches left to be played, but when things stand Pakistan is a big favorite of course to go through group 2 as a table toppers, followed by New Zealand or Afghanistan.
Read Alsot20 World Cup: The dream team of the Indian team almost after Drubbingas New Zealand, without the scoreboard pressure which pursued 111, Canter, with Darryl Mitchell (49 off 35; 4×4, 3×6) sometimes playing a lot of attacks, India’s shoulder drooping, The faces became gloomy and their pre-tournament bills appeared produced.
But India has not been removed mathematically.
Of course it will take a miracle for India to go to the next round from here, but permutations and combinations keep them alive.
Shankar Raghuraman Toi has calculated mathematics.
This is a quick and direct display, in 7 points, on how the 2007 champions, India, may still be able to make it into the semi-finals: 1) We started with the assumption that Pakistan, India and New Zealand all defeated Scotland and Namibia2) if the above occur, Pakistan Will add groups with 10 points and of course sailing to semi-finals 3) the fight then leads to three teams – India, New Zealand and Afghanistan for one remaining slot 4) if India loses to Afghanistan, they will come out of race.
The winner of the New Zealand-Afghanistan match then became the second semi-finalist from Group 2.
5) if India defeated Afghanistan, they will then have 6 points.
In that scenario, Afghanistan must defeat New Zealand for India to have a chance of 6) if Afghanistan defeats New Zealand and India defeating Afghanistan, the three teams (India, NZ and Afghanistan) will be at 6 points 7) in that situation, it will boil to NRR and India need to win very large towards small fish (Namibia and Scotland) and hopefully Afghanistan also has the opportunity to go to the semi-finals.
But when things stood up, Virat Kohli and his men were looking at the possibility of going out early from the World Cup.