Unlike many other sports, the men’s football tournament at the Olympics is not a top-level tournament, and since 1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players. Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with President Jules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself.
This time, it is none other than the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 which is taking place in Oman and the United Arab Emirates . The India National Cricket Team has lost both their opening fixtures and now depend on other teams in their group for a spot in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2021. In a summer without a Football World Cup or the Olympics, there is a special major European sporting event to look forward to – the European Championships Munich 2022. Advance ticket sales for the largest multisport event in Germany in 50 years will start on October 26th. In addition to the wide range of sporting activities on offer, visitors can also look forward to The Roofs – the festival of diversity and surprises. Following India’s loss to Pakistan, they were faced with a must-win situation against their other four remaining opponents.
But with that we have arrived at the end of this liveblog. See you tomorrow with the live coverage of England vs Sri Lanka. Issy Ronald has just graduated from the London School of Economics where she studied for an undergraduate and masters degree in History and International Relations. Away from cycling, she enjoys reading, attempting to bake, going to the theatre and watching a probably unhealthy amount of live sport.
New Zealand spinner Ish Sodhi, who picked two wickets against India, said the wicket was slower than the England-Australia game and the ball turned when you try to bowl a touch slow. New Zealand starred with the ball as India was restricted to 110/7 in the Group 2 match of Super 12 stage of the ongoing ICC men’s T20 World Cup. In 2009, angry Indian fans burnt effigies of former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the team failed to defend the title in the T20 World Cup in England. And when India lost the T20 final in 2014 against Sri Lanka, disappointed fans pelted stones at all-rounder Yuvraj Singh’s house. Do not forget to tune in to SportsKeeda for T20 World Cup live score.
These are not the early days of T20, like you saw in the nascent days of 50 overs cricket in which scores of even 125 in 50 overs or 183 in 60 overs were defended successfully by India. This is the T20 era where players grow up in this format and are going to make mincemeat of the opposition when the target is well within their reach and the conditions are perfect for batting. The Indian team under Virat Kohli may have had six full non-match days between their first and second games, and the skipper remarked at the toss as a matter of fact, “it’s ridiculous we are playing two matches in 10 days”.