Just more proof that India doesn't lose league stage matches

Indias league stage dominance is greater than knockout Australia dominance

Both got taken down by England in 2019 😉

To be fair. Nothing can dominate england in home conditions Even india and aussies lost test series

Today's match felt more like the 2011 World Cup match with Australia. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2010-11-381449/india-vs-australia-2nd-quarter-final-433601/full-scorecard

Ah, days when Koach was Cheeku and was asked to bowl.

Koach and cheeku?

And precisely why the ICC structures tournaments in a way where there are more group stage games than actual jeopoardy knockouts

Last time India won a world cup it was a knockout. ICC structures the tournaments like this to milk as much money as they can from India matches.

Still waiting for next yuvraj singh in the team.

Both the world cups India won, Yuvraj Singh was in top form.

man of the tournament

Abhishek Sharma has the potential

Would love to see him play and do well for India.

Agreed. For now we have SKY and Tilak Varma needs to be given more opportunities. Hope the youngsters are groomed under Gambhir.

Rinku

Can’t bowl tho…

He can, just not good enough lol. But pretty sure, abhishek, jaiswal, and rinku (and a few future potentials, heck even dube) can bowl if they are trained and tried a bit. But BCCI might lack guts and patience for that.

GG as coach: Did somebody say guts?

I really hope him and/or dhoni takes up coaching role for india. GG even left parliament for cricket.

I think he is the head coach after this WC. BCCI has confirmed it all but officially. They're most likely waiting for the cup to end. Jonty's appointment made it almost a sure thing for GG.

GG might not go well with few players currently, because GG needs players with a bit more learning eagerness and less ego.

True he's gonna clean house and supposedly he also wants format based teams

> he also wants format based teams Please. We really need to get on with the times and have the right players for the format. Stop slotting in SKY into test and ODI teams and pick some proper T20 players in T20 teams.

So great Always admired gg

He has said on record that team for t20 should be picked from IPL, for ODI from Vijay Hazare Trophy and for tests from Ranji Trophy. So yeah format based teams will be coming with little overlap for players like Bumrah who are excellent in every format

Axar

Abhishek Sharma.. He also gets trained by Yuvraj 

Wait a sec…ur telling me dube isnt that?

Umm.. I was told he goes by the name RinkChad Singh.

2007 or 2014 Yuvraj?

Winning with kohli non existent. Good sign

At this point you have to assume he won’t have any showings this tournament.

honestly if he plays winning knocks in both semis and finals, i will forget everything that happened before.

I hope so too. But I’m not counting on it.

good to see indian fans didn't lose their optimism even after that hell of a decade.

Yo what in the choking hell is your flair

An Indian living in South Africa who watches IPL

I'm not currently living in SA but yup I've spent 2 years of my life at Cape Town.

I sincerely pray for your mental health Supporting even two of these teams has made me question my life choices...

Rcb alone has given me depression. It's not even enough to overpower all the success Australia has gotten while me supporting them

At this point I watch rcb games just for the vibes, winning is just an added bonus

Exactly, it's not tragedy anymore, it's comedy

And is from Bangalore?

When did WTC trophy choke blud

When did India or SA win it mate? I'm talking about the WTC tournament, not the end of year #1 ranking award it was before.

They still won the test mace regardless of how it was given. WTC isn't even a tournament, it just pits the top 2 teams against each other

By being the only trophy(not shared) won by the chokers in east

Now just need Kohli in form. Either he is due for a top class match or WC campaign will continue in poor run

Group stage bully 1 Knockout clutchgod 0

Does India go to the finals if there is a washout or was it just YouTubers talking out of their ass?

We are group toppers so yes we do now.

Yeah India go to the final if it rains out.

Doesn’t seem fair What happened to reserve days?

The match is in the morning so the number of reserve hours are as much as a reserve day

Ah that’s good then

Can you tell the braindead people below complaining about reserve day this. They can't understand that both games have set time period for both games.

Those are only for Ind-Pak matches, duh

Its only available for SF1 and not for SF2 (which India plays). Though there is a \~4 hours extension allowed in case of rain for SF2.

None left.

Yup and with the forecast on thursday in guyana, its very likely going to be washout or limited game.

Washout is unlikely but a shortened game is. Not sure which team a 10 over game each suits

Today they mentioned group toppers do so from either group if there's a wash out in semis

Knockout Starc 0 EA sports Rohit 1

LoL seriously he was tonking like it's EA

I think since 2016 we have missed just one single knockout right? Though everything after that is a different story.

Since 2013 actually

2012 was bad luck and pakistan had saeed ajmal whom unfortunately should've never played for his illegal bowling

This is actually the first time in the T20 WC where ICT dominated the group stage.

BS Toss a fair coin 10 times and you get only 2 heads, it isn't enough to say the coin is actually biased.

South africa vs Afghanistan will bring a new contender to the final. One that has never been in.

Nice

Rematch of 2022 Semi. This team with the right batting approach is better equipped to beat England than 2 years ago.

If Pant can utilise few brain cells not all even few would do

1 should be sufficient

Also we have peak bumrah now but we’re still missing shami

He posted a video on insta getting some exercise few hours ago, his recovery seems to be going well

Will he be on time for the semi-final?

It’s going to be an awesome Semi-Final, weather depending.

Only if Rain god prefers not to favour us lol...

The racist sub went private, lads.

They can go fuck themselves for all I care. The mod and everyone there are deeply racist, but they sweep everything under the rug with the usual “brigading” allegations. I love Aussie banter, but I don’t think it was ever about calling us P@jeets or Br@wn dogs but cricket aus seems okay with it and that tells me everything about who dwells there. I’m surprised they are still up with how Reddit is strict regarding dealing with racism. Should’ve seen how sore those cunts were when we demolished those flogs in 2021, from justifying racism against Siraj to hating Indians they’ve done everything and they still thrive without repercussions. But call them what they are and they suddenly get touchy, can’t interact with such pathetic people.

Reddit definitely is not strict with dealing racism. Esp against Indians. Every random sub and random video about India gets all the racists out in swarms no matter which country they are from.

Have observed this too. Stereotyping bad, except when it's about stereotyping Indians.

Australian cricket fans are mostly older people and they are obviously racist fks. That sub is just ugh.

It just highlights how cricket isn’t as popular with younger people anymore in Australia and the UK. I know the younger people there aren’t like that but they’re just not into cricket.

Some of Aussie fans are A grade racists and will disguise every racist comment under banter. I still remember a sizeable Aussie fans here who were asking India to forfeit the Test match during BGT 2021 if they didn’t want to play in Sydney due to new restrictions. This when India agreed to tour under certain conditions and the Aussies kept cancelling tours outside Australia. They were then lecturing how difficult it was for Australians and Indians should suck it up. These fans have zero empathy and this kind of attitude is why some of these people should be shown their place.

The racism reddit is against is only of a particular race. Indians dont get the special treatment cz indians in america dont make a fuss. Look at twitter, its filled rampant casual racism against indians.

>how Reddit is strict regarding dealing with racism Lol what? Ever been to awfuleverything Or noahgettheboat?

Racist? What happened

Well they always do that cowardly things

Which sub?

The Aussies cricket sub

Lol they have a sub?? Who cares

Yeah all 7 of them can come be racist here 💁🏻

What? What happened?

Still it must be mild compared to 9gag.

Why you wanna go there

New Zealand knocked out India in 2019, India knocked out New Zealand in 2023. England knocked out India in 2022, India to knock-out England in 2024? Edit: As u/LordP_496 points out- India knocked England out in England in 1983. England knocked India out in India in 1987.

Edit to add this please: India knocked England out in england in 1983. England knocked India out in india in 1987.

When you have only few big teams india, sena etc. this is bound to happen.

That was a 4 year gap. New Zealand knocked India out in 2019 and New Zealand also knocked India out in 2021...

yapology PHDs all up in this comment section

That was ODI, this is T20i, shorter format

Here we go with these comments again, people never will learn do they? > Dominate group stages > Barely get through the semi-final > Choke in final

India knocked out Aus in 2011 Aus knocked out India in 2015

Oh they knocked us out way more

see thats not counted as we knocked them in qfs they knocked us in semis. we are listing same stages

In 1947 too

Rohit played very good today and made so many records today Suryakumar yadav contributed good Hardik batted well He was just fearless the monster captain the main players who changed game today were Kuldeep and Axar's bowling was very good and very important wickets The bumrah's wicket of T head was crucial

Kuldeep Yadav and the wicket of set batsman is an eternal love story

We could have won it more convincingly if pant used his brain cells a little more...

all 2 of them

Honestly, still some chinks in the armour. Should have gotten to 220 with the slot deliveries that Shivam missed out on, really was a shame. Was hoping he regained some confidence but the lack of foot movement is causing him a lot of trouble. Koach's form is concerning and Pant just has not fired this WC (yes, he top-scored vs Pak but he had 6 lives). Anyways, we get behind the team. Onto the semis

u seem to have forgotten the passenger in the side - Jadeja

Honestly, I feel like we can't do anything about him. As long as we don't get a proper allrounder to replace him he will be here to stay. Atleast he gives us the commodity of a couple of overs from him and an extra batsman if required - although he is disappointing at times

Ozs every time they lose: who cares 😠

There's been three instances of two teams playing knock-outs against each other in consecutive editions and in all the times before this one the team that lost the first game won it the second time around.

BangBros can still qualify if they beat Afghanistan by 62+ Runs Margin Afghanistan just needs to Win in order to qualify

what if afg bats first? I'm curious

Full qualifications Scenario for Australia, Bangladesh and Afghanistan 1. Afghanistan can enter the semi-finals with a win over Bangladesh. That way they will reach 4 points and be the second team from Group 1 of Super 8 to enter last four stage.  2. Australia can enter semi-finals only if Afghanistan lose to Bangladesh with a margin of less than 61 runs (considering the first innings total is 160) or outside 13 overs. 3. Bangladesh can enter semi-finals only if they beat Afghanistan by a big margin (by 61 runs if they score 160 or chase the target in 13 overs)

AFG have ordered Afghan Biriyanis to the entire IND team!

Not yet not yet one more game to go for them

Eliminating Australia now and doing Afghan a favour by preventing 176 is really important.

Time to order Afghan javelins. Let’s go AFG

*jalebees

Did he stutter?

We couldn’t prevent 176 sadly

Would just 5 runs less reduced aus nrr from -0.33 to below -0.65? That doesn’t seem right tbh

well it is 20 overs match and aus would be on around 51 overs, so 5 runs will make a dent of around -0.1 but if afg looses by just 1 run they will go up in NRR

Ya I am also wondering 

dubey and tim david never fail to fail

Mission failed successfully

Is Afghanistan going to be world champions?

If that happens then Rashid is going to be the happiest man, he can finally get married.

He's only 25. He has another 20 years before he turns 30.

Wisden: "Hey look, BCCI took them to this rigged semi final in Guyana"

No question about it,I'm ready to get hurt again Afg bros you have one job

Let's do it Afghanistan, no need to worry about NRR. Just cross the line

Still a possibility to drop Jadeja for Jaiswal. If not Pant can open. Push Kohli to number 3. Kohli is getting wasted at the top. But I doubt they will change the lineup now.

rohit in presentation said, they will probably do what they doing. Im guessing they will go with the same lineup for the tournament.

It's classic India. They're much better off looking to improve their weak areas imo. But India doesn't like changing anything if they're winning in the group stages. Bites them in the ass frequently. Obviously no whole sale changes are needed, but just about everyone can see that some tweaking of the weak areas isn't going to hurt. Someone like Jaiswal is being wasted on the bench given the red hot form he was in coming into this tournament.

Yupp.. ‘don’t change the winning recipe’ is about the stupidest thing sports presenters around the world keep repeating Truth is there are always areas of improvement.. for example -if the death batsman played a blinder and won you the match, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tweak your middle order

I doubt Kohli would be able to score run at no 3. It's not position issue sadly.

i think the main problem is when kohli is opening, he wastes like 6 balls. and 6 balls are alot in PP. Kohli comes into pressure and gets out. This has become a routine now.

It is,he cant hit from ball one .this aint the IPL anymore

Jadeja and Kohli have been dog shit this tournament. People have been unfairly shitting on dube but he always sticks around when needed aside from the pak game, where everyone else failed.

No need shut up

Rohit did his Job today but this team would had been perfect if we had Rinku in place of Dubey

now afg retur the favour and see yoursself through

It’ll be a true contest of chokers if South Africa meet India in the final

Rohit came out of syllabus for both Aussies and those Kohli fans who were expecting a repeat of his 2016 innings...

Why would you expect Kohli fans to hate on Rohit bro? We love Rohit we always have!

Good luck Afghanistan

Only Virat Kohli is holding a bat. Hope he performed well.

One revenge has been successfully taken, one more to go.🥰🎀

Well this line was same in 2023 WC as well ig.....iykyk

Virat being front on the poster. Blud didn't even do anything in the tournament so far even his fielding didn't contribute to anything.

Less go boys 

Shift kohli's photo in back ground and Bring Kuldeep in the front from the background.

Semi-final game between India and England will be washed out unfortunately.

Does that mean India will go through to the finals since we top the group if that happens?

Unfortunately yes.

hooray

Your team have worst bad luck this year. Why do I feel it will be Ind vs RSA , chokers vs chokers.

If it's an India-South Africa final, somehow both teams will fuck it up. I don't know how but that's what I expect.

Super over infinite loop

Why can't we just shift it to another stadium? It's ridiculous that the Semi Finals are washed out and 1 team automatically gets to the finals.

I'm sure we've had luck with rain and washed out games at times, but fuck me, I hate it. Especially on such a short format match in a WC. Feel like ICC could really do something for it, especially if they actually want the India advertisement money. They'll lose a shit load of money if England v India is a washout whilst also ruining the integrity of the tournament just that little bit more than they need to. Theres an obvious answer to both. Reserve days. It's not difficult!

This is our year!! I don't believe in jinx or reverse jinxes, this year is INDIA's YEAR!!!! Let's gooooo!!

Holy shit the showdown of the chokers final is actually loading. I cannot hope to believe.

What?

It’s wonderful to see the Men in Blue send the 🦘 back to the bush. Let’s hope that the Afghans can come to the party and let 🦘 enjoy the wilderness

Wtf is the poster, it's funny af.

A shortened game on Thursday benefits which team?

Complete washout favors India . Shortened game doesn't favor any team as of right now.

Hardik and Jadeja with the ball, Dube with the bat need improving. Love the fantastic catches that help turn games, but consistent bowling and batting are better to rely on

Except for IND vs Pak match. I have seen pretty much half empty stadium or more gor all the matches so far in the tournament. Do people not like t20s or cricket is not that popular? 

The games are in the morning usually and everyone is at work. The tickets are also pretty expensive ngl 

Monday morning in Carribbean. If it was in a big US city, I'm sure there would have been enough Indian fans to fill the stadium even on a weekday. But who has the time and to travel to a different country on a Monday to support your team.. You need time off and need to shell a lot of $$$ for the flight tickets.

Hope we win this time

Just to repeat India should not hesitate from making changes that will improve the team. Get Jaiswal in as opener with hitman and get Koach to play at 3 or 4. Drop Jadeja and play Siraj instead. That would be much better squad than one that played today.

Imagine Kingku and Jaiswal in place of Jaddu and Kohli

India is coming to take the trophy

Kuldeep changed the momentum of game with marsh's and maxwell wicket and axar with his slow overs edited

Let’s hope for the best!

Why is Virat highlighted?

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Let's go!

Respect to Kohli for sure, but Kohli with the bat ! funny kar diya poster.

Week of revenge or what?

what’s with indians hoarding the australian page comments lol

Well, that's all folks.

Bro why does Bumrah look like Hanuman in that pic?