On June 27, at Providence Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana, India and England will play in the second semifinal of the T20 World Cup 2024. Given that England defeated India in the semifinals of the T20 World Cup 2022, the two teams have a good amount of experience together. The long-simmering rivalry between Rohit Sharma and Jos Buttler, which started late at night in Adelaide, will intensify even more when they take the lead once more. Both skippers have data that, barring the outcome, illustrate their battle in a symbolic way.
On sluggish New York pitches, both openers in the current T20 World Cup 2024 struggle to score runs. In pivotal games, both batters had luck smiling upon them as the team bus arrived in the Caribbean. In a game that needed to be won against the United States of America, Buttler struck an undefeated 83 runs in just 38 balls. In contrast, Rohit, against Australia, settled into a rhythm, scoring 92 off just 41 deliveries.
The batting stats of both players in the current tournament are much stronger, which is the mother of all coincidences. With a comparable strike rate of 159.16 and 120 balls faced, they have both scored 191 runs in the same number of innings. Additionally, after facing 192 balls in 2024, the pair managed to record two clean sweeps and exactly two half-centuries.
Let’s examine Rohit, Buttler’s T20 World Cup coincidental statistics:
This is remarkable .. Both captains stats this WC .. @cricbuzz !! pic.twitter.com/riaOLWvKJP
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) June 27, 2024
India must stop carrying a monkey around.
With seven straight victories, India is undefeated in the current T20 World Cup 2024. Conversely, if Australia hadn’t defeated Scotland, England would have been in danger of being eliminated from the tournament’s group stage. After discussing the coincidences, one unfavourable sign that is seen as a barrier for India off the pitch is the fact that no team has ever won a T20 World Cup without defeat.
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