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ICC World Twenty20 Semifinals: SL need 144 to knock India out

May 2010 Aneesh Leave a comment Go to comments

Despite losing both of their group matches so far, India still have a chance to go through to the semifinals — beat Sri Lanka by 20 runs.

India just posted 163 in their innings, so they need to restrict Sri Lanka to 143, and then hope that Australia beat West Indies.  Then net run rate will take India through, regardless of the margin of WI’s defeat to Australia.  Here’s what the table would look like if India beat SL by 20 runs (Ind 163, SL 143), and then Aus beat WI by 1 run (Aus 160, WI 159).

It’s a long shot, but there’s hope for Indian fans!  I’m tweeting out live updates on the required run rate for SL to knock India out.  Check it out on Twitter: http://twitter.com/againstthespin

Teams Mat Won Lost Tied N/R Pts NetRunRate
Australia 2 2 0 0 0 4 2.183
India 2 1 2 0 0 0 -0.717
Sri Lanka 2 1 2 0 0 2 -0.733
West Indies 2 1 2 0 0 2 -0.733
  1. Shridhar Jaju
    May 11th, 2010 at 19:22 | #1
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    Hi Aneesh… I was wondering on my blog and you are probably the right person to help me out…

    How does D/L affect the NRR workings? Is it still the actual batting runrate minus the actual bowling runrate or there is some play involved with the percentage of resources used / lost?

    And secondly, I also wanted to know this: if a match is won in the Super Over, is it included towards computation of NRR? I guess that the answer to this question would be ‘no’.

    Thanks. Bye.

  2. Aneesh
    May 11th, 2010 at 19:31 | #2
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    Hi Sridhar. I believe that the NRR will include fewer overs. Since it is determined by computing the overall run rate while batting, minus the overall run rate while bowling (not on a per-match basis), a shortened match will have less impact on NRR.

    For example, if Team 1 bats 20 overs, and because of rain, Team 2 is set a D/L target to chase in 7 overs, then the NRR for both teams will be computed with only 7 overs. This will reduce the impact that match has on the overall net run rate, because the NRR for other matches will be computed with the full 20 overs, and thus have greater weight in the overall NRR calculation.

    As for the second question, I don’t know either, but my guess is also no.

  3. Cricket Balls
    June 15th, 2010 at 09:40 | #3
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    It seems crazy that you could loose 2 from 3 and still progress!

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