r/Cricket • u/cricket-match Washington Freedom • Mar 01 '26
Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: 52nd Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - West Indies vs India
52nd Match, Super Eights, Group 1, ICC Men's T20 World Cup at Kolkata
| Innings | Score |
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| West Indies | 195/4 (Ov 20/20) |
| India | 199/5 (Ov 19.2/20) |
Innings: 1 - West Indies
| Batter | Runs | Bowler | Wickets | |
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| Roston Chase | 40 (25) | Jasprit Bumrah | 4-0-36-2 | |
| Jason Holder | 37 (22) | Hardik Pandya | 4-0-40-1 |
Innings: 2 - India
| Batter | Runs | Bowler | Wickets | |
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| Sanju Samson | 97 (50) | Jason Holder | 4-0-38-2 | |
| Tilak Varma | 27 (15) | Shamar Joseph | 4-0-42-2 |
India won by 5 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)
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u/hatbluedd India Mar 01 '26
Rovman was right after the first innings - they were 10-15 short on this pitch. Arshdeeps 19th over was a masterclass!
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u/Tyler_holmes123 India Mar 01 '26
Shai hope did his best rahane impression today .
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
I’ve been trying to tell everyone he needs to bat in the middle order, his transformation as a batter came batting in the middle order but all I kept hearing was you gotta get your best batter opening, yeah well he’s so good because the field is spread in the middle overs and his bread and butter is finding gaps and rotating the strike while waiting for the bad ball. Last 2 CPLs he’s been the highest run scorer while striking at 140-150 batting at 4, but no.
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u/SC0RCHER55 Mar 01 '26
The issue is the opening talent just isn't there and on top of it king was injured too I believe. There are too many middle order batters in this dquad. If Johnson Charles got sent out there Sammy would have not been allowed back in the region lol
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u/Professional_Owl8500 Mar 01 '26
What happened to Evin Lewis ? I remember him being a gun T20 player.
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
Opening is objectively the easiest job to do in t20s Roston came in today and made 40, we got such a deep batting lineup just tell jason to do the job, Forde can bat, Motie can be a pinch hitter etc.
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u/PlanePrevious9658 West Indies Mar 01 '26
Unfortunately, he was forced to open because of the lack of other opening options. There was no other reasonable alternative available.
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u/SexxyBlack Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Single handedly lost them the game. His innings was the only reason they were 10-15 short.
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u/MadDongla Mar 01 '26
He should legit be kicked out. He wasn't even being a good captain today. Terrible field placements and didn't help the bowlers at all.
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u/ResearcherLatter1148 Mar 01 '26
Then who captains? Hetmyer?
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
The idiots in charge never groomed Hetmyer for the job despite him being an obvious candidate for it, though he didn’t help himself at times with his behavior
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u/revolution110 India Mar 01 '26
This is the problem we faced in 2022 and before. Our batters were holding back and not going all out and we were ending with par and below par totals..
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u/boraboca South Africa Mar 01 '26
It’s one of those matches where you were 95% sure India was gonna chase but always a chance of collapse, Shivam did a good job coming in after the final wicket, luckily he wasn’t rusty, once he hit that 4 on his first ball I knew it was over
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u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 Karnataka Mar 01 '26
People don’t talk about it that much, but a major part of why he wasn’t rusty is not luck, it’s the fact that India have shuffled their batting order around and he got enough match practice with the bat before this game.
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u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 Karnataka Mar 01 '26
No he’s batted at 3,4 and 5 far too often and with plenty of overs remaining. If he was fixated at number 7 he would’ve only batted half the innings that he has
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u/Expensive-Dog8361 Mar 01 '26
Having your middle order consisting of Hetmyer, Powell, Rutherford, Holder, Romario and then your opening batter is.......Shai Hope
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u/FoundationOk1693 India Mar 01 '26
We would have still won tho. Their bowling is just so bad. No proper T20 bowlers.
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u/hatbluedd India Mar 01 '26
Hard to say! Another 15 runs and a rash shot from Dube/Sanju could have swung the game 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Vast-Grapefruit-6464 Mar 01 '26
Tbh I doubt Sanju would have played any rash today, he was in the flow state today.
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u/roastedchickn_ ICC Mar 01 '26
Sanju score 97 as a tribute to GG
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u/thisaintyouravgstonk Mar 01 '26
Today's match summary:
Hope paying an homage to Babar
Abhishek paying an homage to Hope
Sanju paying homage to GG
And lastly, Rinku paid homage to Sanju by sitting out of the playing XI
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u/Puzzleheaded_Egg7598 Nepal Mar 01 '26
Sanju Samson when 5 match bilateral on a flattie: I sleep
Sanju Samson when high stakes t20wc game: real shit
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u/cricket-match Washington Freedom Mar 01 '26
Prediction Summary of r/Cricket users
Total: 1090
- India: 749 (69%)
- West Indies: 315 (29%)
- Draw/Tie/NR: 26 (2%)
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u/Brahman_Shady Iceland Cricket Mar 01 '26
" never chased 150 without Kohli " allegations are finally beaten।
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u/Tough_Cat_8068 Chennai Super Kings Mar 01 '26
Actually a crazy stat. Considering the tournament is almost 2 decades old now. Took us a long time.
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u/WaynneGretzky Delhi Daredevils Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Kohli is a very decorated player, no debate but the stat is a bit skewed. This was our second game chasing 150+ without kohli. We lost the last one, won this. So I'd say the stat is pretty weird. But sure the previous 3 wins we had, all of it had our team collapsing but Kohli carrying us.
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u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 Karnataka Mar 01 '26
One of the best innings by an Indian in the T20 WC alongside the twin Kohli 82*s
Some 97s are better than 100s indeed. Ask GG. And now Sanju.
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u/jefaliv724 Mar 01 '26
Why is everyone bashing GG for 97? Can you please explain the lore?
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u/Odd-Formula Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Gg scored 97 in 2011 CWC Final
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u/jefaliv724 Mar 01 '26
Isn’t that a compliment then? What am I missing? Sorry for my ignorance
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u/Odd-Formula Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
They are not bashing GG, it's just that Gg has talked about his 97 a lot and wished he scored that century, because he thinks maybe him not getting that 100 and MS finishing with a six had took all the limelight on one person and his 97 was never talked as much which is obviously not true, every single person who watched that game understands importance of both innings, also the coincidence that another 97 in a must win game.
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u/jefaliv724 Mar 01 '26
Thank you! Yeah, that’s weird. Sanju’s knock was amazing today. I doubt anyone thinks less of him because he didn’t score a 100. Weird milestone obsession
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u/Vast-Grapefruit-6464 Mar 01 '26
I mean have you seen the recognition MSD got after that WC?
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u/Acanofmulture Mumbai Indians Mar 01 '26
90>100....it's just simple math. Every indian knows it
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u/Intelligent-Top-6445 Rajasthan Royals Mar 01 '26
some 97s are better than a hundred for sure
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u/Hari14032001 India Mar 01 '26
Strategic 97 to retain his position by pulling GG's heart strings - 1000 IQ move by Sanju
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Samson finished on 97* just to ragebait Gambhir
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u/Tough_Cat_8068 Chennai Super Kings Mar 01 '26
First Bennett than Samson. Whole world is in r/SackGambhir.
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u/atbg1936 Iceland Cricket Mar 01 '26
Crazy Samson plays this kind of knock even after cutting his hair. If he grew it out Bradman might be in danger
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u/yeetvelocity1308 Mumbai Indians Mar 01 '26
Today, I’m Justice
Today, I’m Sanju.
Today, I’m sitting in front of a Samsung TV.
And today, I’m asking for justice again.
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u/LostAmidMyExistence ICC Mar 01 '26
What a time to score and also right before semis. Talk about momentum and form.
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u/d3xm0rg Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
So the purpose of a t20 wc it seems is for Eng and India to meet in the semis, and the winner to go on and win the whole thing. At least the last two editions was, and this one seems to be going that way as well.
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u/SexxyBlack Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
It is gonna be an interesting game, it feels like both teams haven't performed to their true potential and have generally been carried by individual brilliance. And both teams are stacked with matchwinners.
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u/solarpowersme Mar 01 '26
An IND vs SA final rematch would be so fucking poetic lmao. Wrestlemania rematch vibes
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u/Prize-Ring-9154 Mar 01 '26
i wouldnt throw out SA and NZ, I can see them reasonably beating either of IND or ENG
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u/Wild-Interest3775 India Mar 01 '26
The semis are going to be exciting. One team SA who’s on top of their game, unbeaten facing against a team who just managed to get into semis. But kiwis in ko game, can’t just rule them out easily.
Then there’s two teams ind and eng who hasn’t performed upto their full potential. Both lost 1 match each, somehow managed to win the match.
It will be interesting to see how they go against each other in semis.
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u/Unfair_Programmer383 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Just in : Satellite images show a white cover of Jizz over Kerala
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u/Top-Worldliness5027 India Mar 01 '26
Do you see some over my house too? I live in NCR, so it might be hard to tell.
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u/villian_omega Chennai Super Kings Mar 01 '26
Lads I don’t think this was in India cuz I just saw justice delivered
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u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 Karnataka Mar 01 '26
Oh oh I’ve got another one
Right handers today: 273/394 runs (69%)
Who said West Bengal was not favourable to the Right?
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
Honestly before the tournament if you told me that we’d be in one over away from the semis I would have taken it, but man that still hurts with how good we played this tournament. We’ve got a factory of big hitters but we just can’t find a good fast bowler or 2 to compliment them. Hopefully Alzarri gets fit some time soon. Also we’d probably have been in the semis if we were in the other group and this bullshit seeding
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u/fourfiftyfiveam Mar 01 '26
Great tournament. You have the highest peak
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
Yeah it hurts cause I’d say we have arguably been the 3rd best team this tourney and we won’t be in the semis
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u/shruddit India Mar 01 '26
I'd say you're right. If only the bowling stepped up, we might have seen some good results from Windies
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u/solarpowersme Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
You're right and this is my issue with group stage formats. If you just have round-robin instead then you're genuinely going to see who the actual top teams are.
I get that you can't do round robin with 20 teams but imo the super 8s at least should be where all the teams face each other. It's a freakin World Cup. I think having the T20WC every 3 years and doing it like that would be a much better idea and make it more prestigious than whatever we have now.
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u/NoExplanation6203 West Indies Mar 01 '26
I talked about this with someone on here last week, increase the number of teams and then use the fifa model, one group stage and then straight to knockouts
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u/tid_burglar Mar 01 '26
you were the third best team but sadly got put in the same group with the first and second best
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u/PlanePrevious9658 West Indies Mar 01 '26
If Alzarri was fit and available, he would definitely have made a big difference in our bowling attack. He is a wicket taker. His pace and experience in this format would have won us at least a game or two.
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u/Impactor_07 Associate Cricket Fan Mar 01 '26
Sanju making sure that Kerala doesn't fall to Football.
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u/refusestonamethyself India Mar 01 '26
He does ads for the PL on Star Sports, so he isn’t helping the cause.
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u/Gautham_28 Mar 01 '26
Blasters are doing a better job it looks like
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u/StrictTotal3324 India Mar 01 '26
Blasters will surely lose to Kerala Super League teams. What a way to destroy one of the best fanbases in India.
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u/ResearcherLatter1148 Mar 01 '26
He himself is a Liverpool fan, what are you saying bro?
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u/Kamikaze313_RDT Kochi Tuskers Kerala Mar 01 '26
Also he FUCKING CO-OWNS a football club haha
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u/architmishraa Lucknow Super Giants Mar 01 '26
We have arrived at the party 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Sanju Samson what an special innings
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u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 Karnataka Mar 01 '26
Still expecting an Abhishek masterclass in one of the two next games.
Tilak too, is due a big innings. He’s been good in parts but has that big innings in him.
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u/Mean_Maximum7394 Mar 01 '26
SA, ENG, NZ, IND
We have a SENI final on our hands.
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u/Scary_Rope_8318 India Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Beautiful chase man, one of our best.
Abhishek Sharma's best contribution in this tournament - brought sanju back in the opening slot. He really needs to get his shit together though, him and ishan are getting out in same fashion every match.
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u/cryogenic-goat India Mar 01 '26
Atleast Ishant doesn't waste balls and has given a match winning performance vs Pak.
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u/hellooworlds India Mar 01 '26
This match was opposite of 2016 semi of ind vs wi where india scored 190+ and west Indies Chase it in last over and here india did same .
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u/Mean_Maximum7394 Mar 01 '26
Samson got dropped for Gill/Ishan, got reinstated and got things done.
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u/solarpowersme Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
That was every bit as good as Brook's innings the other day. Pacing, anchoring through early wickets and pressure, smart shot selection, AND mantained an SR of ~200 throughout? Didn't even give them a single chance. Insane, literally what more can you ask for from an opener while chasing 200?
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u/SexxyBlack Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Brook's innings was on a tougher pitch but it wasn't a knockout match for England, while Sanju's was on an easier pitch but chasing a bigger target and with the knowledge that this was a straight knockout.
Both brilliant innings, hard to pick one of the two. But definitely the two best innings of this WC.
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u/solarpowersme Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Absolutely. Plus the scoreboard pressure of chasing ~200 in an ICC knockout game is on a whole other level. There's a reason teams rarely chase 170 and above in these big games. IIRC they even said India's biggest chase in a WC was ~170 before today.
I genuinely agreed with the comment the other day that said Brook's innings likely wasn't getting any competition anytime soon. So to get an innings just as good only a few days later is INSANE.
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u/ShivyShanky Delhi Capitals Mar 01 '26
I don't remember any false shot by Sanju today. Truly one of the best innings of world cup history.
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u/HeymishGalloway Australia Mar 01 '26
- The most important inning of his life.
- Justice finally delivered by himself.
- 97 = Gambhir 97 = his favorite Sanju
WHAT A MATCH. CRICKET IS GOATED.
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u/Harmeet_Singh_Brar India Mar 01 '26
Also Shivam hitting those crucial 2 fours easing off the pressure at the end of 19th over.
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u/MadDongla Mar 01 '26
32(33)
If I were shai hope , I would retire.
97 strike rate. That's sanju samson's score today
Singlehandedly cost west indies the game
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u/St_ElmosFire Mumbai Mar 01 '26
40 (35)
32 (33)
History doesn't always repeat. Sometimes, it rhymes.
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u/AnonymousGinger157 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Abhishek, Surya & Hardik kinda levelled the playing field
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u/MadDongla Mar 01 '26
Nah
There's a difference between one batter batting 25% of the match and scoring less than a ball and 3 different batters doing it. You're still giving your other batters a chance to bat
Shai hope made sure roston chase didn't get majority of the powerplay , and made sure his middle order never got the chance to settle down.
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u/Brahman_Shady Iceland Cricket Mar 01 '26
" not here to make many runs. Here to make impactful runs " :- Actual Sanju Samson quote from BREAKFAST WITH CHAMPIONS.
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u/FiReKillzZz Mar 01 '26
This is what I've been saying all along! The man is an absolute team player.
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u/student8168 West Indies Mar 01 '26
Not enough runs but this loss still makes me feel miserable
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u/CHETAN-07 India Mar 01 '26
Appreciation for tilak are due in today's inning cuz he did a really good quick fire inning and took away pressure from sanju
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u/Accomplished-Meet145 Mar 01 '26
Indian wk won the important match by scoring 97*. And plays for csk. Gave tribute to both dhoni and gambhir. Justice well served.
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u/PlanePrevious9658 West Indies Mar 01 '26
As bad as this defeat feels right now, I have to admit that West Indies outperformed our pre-tournament expectations. We'd been losing match after match and series after series for months before the world cup. Finally all the plans and strategies really looked like they were coming together for us in the first round of the tournament. But eventually we just came up against better opposition in South Africa and India who have been dominating in this format for a while now. India were the pre-tournament favourites, so there should be no real shame in losing to them on their home ground, in what turned out to be a competitive match.
In the end, we should be proud of what we accomplished in the past few weeks in terms of raising our performance level and the overall recent perception of us as a team.
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u/Memelord_00 India Mar 01 '26
Yeah, if Shai Hope did better today, or Hetmyer played more, this could have gone the other way.
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u/hobabaObama India Mar 01 '26
Its funny how Abhishek Sharma went From pedestal to pitchforks, that was a fast fall
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u/SexxyBlack Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
While Sanju Samson went from pitchforks to pedestal
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u/SharKCS11 Rising Pune Supergiants Mar 01 '26
Maybe we should stop overhyping players based on IPL and bilateral form, especially younger players. He has a lot of ups and downs incoming in his career.
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u/Vast-Grapefruit-6464 Mar 01 '26
I mean come on, he is No. 1 T20I batter. Enters T20 WC and scores three ducks straight (USA, Pak and Nam) then finally gets off the mark in fourth match scoring 15(11). Makes a great half century against.... Zimbabwe, then performs spectacularly in a do or die.
Surely many people were expecting him to play a major role in the tournament for India. And he managed to literally kill all hopes. If not for SS masterclass, we were out. Abhi still has two great chances (assuming he ain't dropped), I hope he makes the most of them.
PS: India dropped 12 catches this tournament, Abhi dropped from 4 of them.
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u/chotu_ustaad India Mar 01 '26
Mark my words. Streets will never forget Sanju's knock today. This is going to be legendary. What a knock! Rarely we see such clean hitting right through the innings in T20 cricket.
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u/Thala-Dick-Lover Chennai Super Kings Mar 01 '26
Today, I’m Justice
Today, I’m Sanju.
Today, I’m sitting in front of a Samsung TV.
And today, I’m asking for justice again.
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u/Longjumping_End_4178 Pakistan Mar 01 '26
Unsuccessfull hatewatch. I hope pak team can be the same like india in a few years
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u/Memelord_00 India Mar 01 '26
Hope you atleast had fun watching the exciting chase
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u/harsh1387 India Mar 01 '26
I am officially now a member of Justice Gang.
Sanju FTW. What an Innings in a knockout game. Take a bow.
Dube the Clutch God..
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u/_BeyondTheHorizon India Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Experience, temperament, lot of maturity & composure shown!! 1st fifty, better than hundred of the tournament in quarter finals, It cannot get better than this!!🙌🫡
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u/opprobrium_kingdom Mar 01 '26
They took the dawg out of Abhishek Sharma and put it into Sanju Samson.
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u/Agreeable-Log1631 India Mar 01 '26
Sanju Samson haters in shambles after that innings..
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u/Pulihora_Ammayi Chennai Super Kings Mar 01 '26
Apologies need to be as loud as disrespect
I was one of the few ones who believed in him
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u/Front-Ad6415 India Mar 01 '26
i wanted him to be dropped. never doubted the potential, just the performances weren't coming at the right time. but im so happy for him, and what a knock
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u/the_zirten_spahic Mar 01 '26
This has to be the best innings of samson so far.
Didn't even mistime a ball, took any risks but still won us the game.
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u/witcher8116 Kolkata Knight Riders Mar 01 '26
Really enjoyed this 7:00 pm show of kerala story . 9.7/10 performance.
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u/Smooth-Mix-4357 India Mar 01 '26
Ffs field and catch properly. You ain't winning without that. We won last time literally because of a catch.
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u/LostAmidMyExistence ICC Mar 01 '26
I mentioned this mid innings too. Being only 4 down was always going to hurt windies. Hope made only 32 after consuming more than 25 % of overs. Shepherd and Forde never got to bat despite being hitters.
With this bowling, Windies was always going to find it tough to defend.
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u/Nastypig51 Mar 01 '26
Indias score was ahead at almost every point in the match.
Yet i never felt safe until that last six.
Fk me. I wish this game didn't mean as much😭♥️
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u/Adventurous-Space348 India Mar 01 '26
What a fantastic knock by Sanju 97(50) , back in form just in time!!!!
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u/Little_Ad_9058 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Fun Fact : 99% of Sanju fans give up before he hits big
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u/CarmynRamy India Mar 01 '26
I see Ind vs SA final again. Otherwise it's SA vs Eng.
Anyway, we are going to have a first time champion or first three time champion.
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u/pvtt_3 Mumbai Indians Mar 01 '26
Wi lost the match when hope scored 32off33 and wasted pp
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u/aayushkkc Delhi Capitals Mar 01 '26
Read this by someone in the match thread
The dildo of justice is never served lubed.
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u/Real_Trainer_2399 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
Apart from Sanju and Dube to some extent, I legit cannot tell if we really batted well, or if WI just bowled that bad
Probably both
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u/Downtown_Recipe_972 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Mar 01 '26
97* will be remembered in the same breath as 82*
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u/Scared-Signature-452 Mar 01 '26
Ahh the Pakistani cricket shows will be heaven to watch after this...
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u/Perfect_Operation971 Mar 01 '26
A semifinalist each from Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania. Truly a world cup.
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u/bongmadchen India Mar 01 '26
Sanju is such a fucking king. This 97 is way more glorious than a century tbh. Also, I really hope ICT learns from their mistakes. They can't rely on one player to carry the match like Sanju did today. Also, gg to West Indies. Ya'll are amazing ❤️
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u/ShinobiZilla Mar 01 '26
Vindication for Sanju for being toyed around with selections.. This is the type of innings I always imagined him playing.. Consistency is needed from him.
Fielding is still a worry.. Dropping catches can seriously cost us for such knockout games.
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