Australia’s T20 World Cup hopes are hanging by a thread after Rohit Sharma’s scintillating 92 led India to a 24-run win in St Lucia.
India end prime of Super 8s Group 1 with an ideal document and will face defending champions England within the semi-finals in Guyana on Thursday (15:30 BST).
Australia will exit if Afghanistan beat Bangladesh within the ultimate group sport (01:30 BST on Tuesday), with South Africa ready in a semi-final in Trinidad.
A win would have put Australia on the brink of the final 4, however they have been overwhelmed by the brilliance of Rohit, who clobbered eight sixes and seven fours in 41 balls for one of the all-time nice knocks at a T20 World Cup.
After Australia received the toss, India reached three figures inside 9 overs and Rohit was bowled by Mitchell Starc within the twelfth with the rating at 127-2. Australia truly fought again nicely to restrict India to 205-5.
David Warner, in in all probability his final worldwide innings, was caught at slip off Arshdeep Singh within the first over of the Australia reply for six, earlier than Travis Head and captain Mitchell Marsh took the assault to India.
Their stand of 81, from eight overs, was ended by Axar Patel’s astonishing one-handed catch on the deep sq. leg boundary to dismiss Marsh for 37.
Head continued, however boundaries dwindled and the required charge climbed. When Head miscued Jasprit Bumrah to Rohit for 76, the sport was up.
Australia lurched to 181-7 and are left hoping for an enormous favour from Bangladesh in an effort to keep away from going out.
