Afghanistan's shock win over former champions Australia has fully modified Group 1 so far as the T20 World Cup semi-finals are involved. After India beat Bangladesh on Saturday, Australia additionally wanted a win over Afghanistan to affix them on 4 factors. A win for Australia would have sealed a semi-final spot for each groups forward of Monday's match. Nonetheless, Afghanistan's spirited efficiency, which got here near beating them throughout final 12 months's ODI World Cup, means all 4 groups might qualify for the subsequent spherical within the remaining spherical of matches.
The semi-final qualification situations for Group 1 are as follows:
India (NRR +2.4)
The equation for Rohit Sharma and his group is straightforward. Beat Australia. That might make the second match irrelevant for them.
From this place, it is vitally unlikely that they are going to be out of the semi-finals, however not not possible.
If each Australia and Afghanistan need to win by huge margins then India might miss out.
Australia must beat India by 41 runs to overhaul them on web run charge, whereas Afghanistan must win by at the least 83 runs in opposition to Bangladesh.
India will advance even when the match is rained out as no different group will have the ability to get 5 factors.
Australia (+0.22)
To make it to the semi-finals, Australia will first need to beat India. Then they must hope that Bangladesh beats Afghanistan.
Even when Australia loses its final match by a small margin, it should nonetheless stay within the race for the semi-finals.
On this scenario, Australia would wish Bangladesh to beat Afghanistan by such a margin that the online run charge of each groups is lower than Australia.
If the match in opposition to India will get cancelled then Australia may even have an opportunity.
After this, Australia wants Bangladesh to beat Afghanistan, in any other case the match between the 2 will likely be cancelled.
Afghanistan (-0.65)
If India beats Australia and Bangladesh beats Afghanistan, then all three groups may have equal factors of two every.
In that case, NRR may have the ultimate phrase. Australia's web run charge is presently higher than each Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
If Afghanistan misplaced by one run, Australia would wish to lose by 31 runs to deliver their web run charge beneath Afghanistan.
If Australia beat India by one run then Afghanistan will want a margin of 36 runs to overhaul them.
Equally, if Australia chase the goal and win on the final ball, Afghanistan should win their match on or earlier than 15.4 overs (assuming the primary innings rating is 160).
In case of rain, Afghanistan will need assistance from India of their match in opposition to Australia.
Bangladesh (-2.48)
Bangladesh have the worst web run charge within the group and are backside with zero factors. Nonetheless, they nonetheless have an opportunity of reaching the semi-finals.
They have to win by 31 runs to overhaul Afghanistan, and should additionally hope that Australia lose by at the least 55 runs to come back second.
A defeat or rain in any of those matches will finish their marketing campaign.
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