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The Indian team has made it to the finals of the T20 World Cup 2024 being played in America and West Indies on Thursday. Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team defeated England by 68 runs in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup. An unwanted record has been recorded in the name of Akshar Patel in this match. He became the first Indian bowler to dismiss an England batsman in a T20 World Cup since the 2012 T20 World Cup. In 2012, Ashok Dinda made Stuart Broad his victim. Akshar Patel achieved this feat by dismissing Jos Buttler in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2024 played in Guyana on Thursday.
In the T20 World Cup played between India and England in 2012, India defeated England by 90 runs. Chasing a target of 171 runs, the England team was bowled out for just 80 runs. After this, the two teams never met during the T20 World Cup held in 2012, 2014 and 2016, but the two teams met in the T20 World Cup in 2022, in which England defeated India by 10 wickets.
India’s star spinner Akshar Patel won the player of the match award for his brilliant performance in the semi-final against England. In response to the target of 171 runs given by India, the England team could only score 103 runs. Credit goes to the Indian spinners for bowling out England cheaply. The pair of Akshar and Kuldeep took 3 wickets each and forced the England batsmen to kneel down. With this win, India avenged their 10-wicket defeat against England in the semi-finals of this tournament in 2022. The Indian team, champions of the preliminary phase of the tournament in 2007, thus reached the final of the third T20 World Cup.