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Pakistan team captained by Babar Azam was eliminated from the league stage of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. As part of Group A, Pakistan suffered an upset against joint hosts USA in their first match of the tournament. USA beat Pakistan in Super Over. At the same time, Pakistan suffered a defeat at the hands of India in the second match. In the third match, Pakistan defeated Canada. After this win, Pakistan was hoping to reach the Super-8. However, the Babar Brigade’s hopes were dashed when the USA vs Ireland match was washed out due to rain. India’s former explosive opener Virender Sehwag has made a shocking prediction. He says that ICC will reconsider keeping India-Pakistan in the same group.
‘Pakistan not eligible for next round’
During a discussion on Cricbuzz, Sehwag said, “How can you blame the rain? You played bad cricket. Even if you had won, you would not have deserved to go to the next round. If the Pakistan team is somehow at this level after losing two matches. Even if it had reached, there would have been no competition with the easy teams. No one is saying that India is deliberately allowing others to qualify. Pakistan has spoiled the calculations First T20 World Cup Losing to the playing American team. Then you cannot chase 120 runs against India. You could only score 113 runs. How can you tell if you’ve gone out because of the rain?
‘The ICC will also certainly consider that…’
The former Indian cricketer continued, “Now the ICC will reconsider putting India and Pakistan in the same group. Neither India nor Pakistan qualified for the second round of the 2007 ODI World Cup. Both teams were then in separate groups. The ICC will also definitely consider putting India and Pakistan in the same group but not include teams that would make them lose and not qualify for the next round. Now a team like America has come. His match will not be fun. If the Pakistan team had reached, their fans would have gone too. But the USA have made it to the Super-8 by playing well and can cause an upset against a big team in the next round.