India outclassed England by 68 runs in the T20 World Cup 2024 semi-final at Guyana's Providence Stadium on Thursday.
India have been facing criticism over receiving favour from the International Cricket Council as it was pre-decided that India will play the knockout game in Trinidad.
However, former England captain Nasser Hussain has a different view. In a column for Daily Mail, he has written that everything seemed to be in favour of India during the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2024.
"The narrative will be that everything on Thursday was geared towards India reaching the T20 World Cup final - the surface, the venue, all seemed to be in their favour. But if you look at things in greater detail, they came into this semi-final against England having just beaten 50-over world champions Australia on a bouncier, good pitch in St Lucia. and reverted to a lower, slower pitch and won comfortably.”
Hussain also commented on India’s performance against England in the semi-final, "India's score was only slightly higher than the 168 they put up in the 2022 semi-final they lost to England at the Adelaide Oval, but the difference in conditions to here in Guyana was chalk and cheese.”
India has remained unbeaten in the T20 World Cup 2024 winning three of their four group games - one was washed out due to rain against Ireland - against USA, Canada and arch-rivals Pakistan. They also won all of their Super 8 encounters and went on to win the semi-final.
On the other hand, South Africa has also been undefeated winning all of their group games and all of their Super 8 games. They also won the semi-final against Afghanistan making it their first-ever semi-final win in a World Cup.
