India has to win the World Cup, Day 19: Now Team India will have to play the remaining World Cup like a knockout tournament.

Delhi: Now this ‘do or die’ situation has come for Team India. Will someone again take a strange decision like Akshar Patel? Harbhajan Singh said something very interesting: There is no logic that an off-spinner bowling to a left-hander will work every time. These matchups suck. A good bowler can bowl to any batsman. Does he know what to do? That’s why Akshar Patel should have played.

Team India now has no scope left for any mistake. A bad night has created a mountain of challenges for Team India. The leadership of Gambhir and Suryakumar will decide the fate of Team India in the next few days. There is an uproar on social media and everyone is becoming an ‘expert’. In a country where there is passion for sports, all this is natural. Therefore, first of all Team India has to believe that they can still win this T20 World Cup. You will have to show strong determination and courage, and get yourself out of trouble.

The same was done in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. After the defeat against Australia, the situation had reached such a stage that Sachin Tendulkar had to appeal to the fans of his country to continue supporting the team. It had an impact and after this India won 8 consecutive matches and played the finals. Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in that World Cup. Who will become ‘Tendulkar’ this time?

Ravichandran Ashwin said, ‘The South Africa match is a big lesson for Team India that one should never enter any match without complete preparation. In such a big, high-pressure match, it makes no sense to bench a player like Axar Patel, especially when he is the vice-captain of the team. Such experiments may be fine in 14 league matches in IPL, but not in the World Cup.

So it is clear that there is no room for any strange experiment. Now the World Cup has to be played like a knockout competition. Four matches are left and all four will have to be won to win the T20 World Cup. There is no need to think about the results of other matches. The focus should be on winning the remaining games convincingly.

Fun Fact:

* Would you believe that India and Zimbabwe are playing each other in India after 24 years. In the last 24 years, India has played 427 matches across all formats and not a single match has been played against Zimbabwe.

* Till the India-South Africa Super 8 match, the record of opening partnership average in this T20 World Cup: New Zealand is at the top among the 20 teams with an average of 84.00 and India is at the bottom with an average of 6.80.

* A strange campaign has started: Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium is unlucky for India. Indian team’s matches should not be held here. We have already lost one World Cup here and this time too it has dealt a blow to the campaign of victory.

* Currently, Bangladesh – 13 (2021) is on top in the record of most ducks by a team in a T20 World Cup, among Test countries, but India – 11 (2026) can change this record.

* Many interesting coincidences are emerging with the 2007 T20 World Cup. Even then, India lost the first match in the second round, then won consecutive matches against England and South Africa, then qualified for the semi-finals with a better NRR and became champions. Will we see this again? Then in the group stage, Zimbabwe defeated Australia and India defeated Pakistan, India lost the first match of Super 8.

And after this India won its next 4 matches and won the World Cup. This time also in the group stage, Zimbabwe defeated Australia and India defeated Pakistan. If India lost the first match of Super 8, will India win the World Cup by winning its next 4 matches?

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