When you play for India, there are loads of expectations. We are watched, people come to the stadium and everyone who plays for India needs to embrace that and cope with it. We haven’t done that in these two games, and that’s why we haven’t won.
We will back tomorrow with the live coverage of another Super 12 game. He says that this is the first time they have set their foot in Dubai. Tells that the wicket was different than the one in Sharjah. Adds that the big part of the game is to use spinners well in the middle.
After their 10-wicket defeat at the hands of Pakistan in the first Super 12 game, India have lost by eight wickets to New Zealand in their second game. Daryl Mitchell’s knock of 49 runs and skipper Kane Williamson’s unbeaten 33-run innings guided New Zealand to an easy victory over Men in Blue. Rahul holed out to deep square leg off the penultimate ball of the powerplay, and Sharma was gone two overs later, slicing a shot to long-on. New Zealand thrashed India by eight wickets in Dubai in both teams’ second match of the Super 12 stage, leaving Virat Kohli’s side still searching for their first victory of the tournament. Mitchell and skipper Kane Williamson, 33 not out, put on 72 runs for the second wicket as New Zealand romped home in 14.3 overs and hand India their second loss of the tournament in as many games.
They repeated the feat at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. First up, the Men in Blue were outclassed by their arch-rivals Pakistan, who beat the Men in Blue by a giant margin of 10 wickets in their opening match of the tournament. On Sunday, India lost to New Zealand, making matters worse for itself as they are now almost knocked out of a top-four finish in the T20 World Cup 2021. Team India has once again failed to make a mark in an ICC event.
A biennial World Cup was first proposed by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation at the 71st FIFA Congress on 21 May 2021 and prominently backed by former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger and national federations in Africa and Asia. Two hundred teams entered the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds; 198 nations attempted to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, while a record 204 countries entered qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
For the various formats used in previous tournaments, see History of the FIFA World Cup § Format of each final tournament. The latter three do not have a women’s version, although a FIFA Women’s Club World Cup has been proposed. The current format involves a qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation, compete for the title at venues within the host nation over about a month. Pakistan lead the group with three wins in as many matches, followed by Afghanistan who have played an equal number of matches and won two. “I don’t think we were brave enough with bat or ball,” a dejected Kohli said after the loss.
This practice has been installed since the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored. In all, 79 nations have played in at least one World Cup.
The defeat that puts India in serious danger of losing out on a semi-final berth also raises questions about outgoing T20 skipper Virat Kohli’s abject failure to win an ICC tournament in four attempts as captain. While Kohli is set to step down from T20 captaincy, this defeat puts his ODI leadership future also in doubt. With the Indians scheduled to play the last game of the league stage, against Namibia, they might get an opportunity to improve their net run rate, provided other results favour them. 2002 World CupBrazil’s Ronaldo maneuvering around opposing German players during the final match of the 2002 World Cup, held in Yokohama, Japan; Brazil defeated Germany, 2–0. World Cup, formally FIFA World Cup, in football , quadrennial tournament that determines the sport’s world champion. Overlooked in the scrutiny surrounding Newcastle’s ownership is just how good Saudi Arabia’s national team has become.
The fourth-placed goalscorer, France’s Just Fontaine, holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament. Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament. Switzerland (quarter-finals 1954), Sweden (runners-up in 1958), Chile , South Korea , and Mexico (quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts.