{"id":346539,"date":"2023-11-14T18:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346539"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T21:02:22","slug":"why-this-scene-could-end-indias-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=346539","title":{"rendered":"Why this scene could end India's World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\ufeffndia<\/a> remains the raging hot favourite to take out the Cricket World Cup after going unbeaten in the group stage, but is a coin toss away from crashing out if stats are to be believed.<\/p>\n

The tournament hosts will face New Zealand<\/a> in the first semi-final on Wednesday night, with the match to take place at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.<\/p>\n

While the venue holds good memories for India, having been the scene of the team's iconic 2011 triumph, an astonishing stat shows that the day-night contest could be decided by the toss of the coin to start the play.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffThere have been four day-night contests at the Wankhede Stadium so far at this World Cup, with three of those being won by the team who batted first.<\/p>\n

\"DHARAMSALA,<\/p>\n

The sole outlier is Australia's win over Afghanistan, where the Aussies were rescued by an all-time effort from Glenn Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stats from the four matches show that each time the result of the contest has been decided by the first 15 overs of each batting innings.<\/p>\n

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In the four matches, the team batting first has accumulated a combined score of 5-319 in the first 15 overs.<\/p>\n

Comparatively, the team batting second under lights has managed a paltry combined score of 24-252.<\/p>\n

\"India's<\/p>\n

\ufeffIndia benefitted handsomely on both ends in their whopping 302-run win over Sri Lanka after Sri Lankan captain Kusal Mendis made the baffling decision to send the hosts in after winning the toss.<\/p>\n

India found itself 1-91 after its first 15 overs with the bat and then had the Sri Lankans languishing at 8-37 with the ball as Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj ran riot with the new ball under lights. \ufeff<\/p>\n

So far in the four matches played at the Wankhede Stadium, the average score batting first is 6-357 and the average score batting second is 9-188, and is no doubt boosted by Maxwell's insane knock.<\/p>\n

\ufeffIndian fans will have nightmares at the prospect of another Black Caps ambush, after being reduced to 4-24 in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup, a match New Zealand won by 18 runs in a major upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\ufeffndia remains the raging hot favourite to take out the Cricket World Cup after going unbeaten in the group stage, but is a coin toss […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346544,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346539\/revisions\/346544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}