India got a big benefit from New Zealand's defeat, know the equation of semi-finals

High voltage matches are being seen every day in the Women's World Cup 2024. The Indian team, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, started its campaign against New Zealand. But the Men in Blue lost the first match. After this defeat, Team India was in danger of reaching the semi-finals. However, after the match played between Australia and New Zealand on October 8, the equation of reaching the semi-finals has changed. Now Team India will have to do this to reach the semi-finals.

Australia beat New Zealand

The match was played between Australia and New Zealand on 8 October. In this match, Australia performed brilliantly while batting first. Opener Alyssa Healy scored 26 runs in 20 balls and Beth Mooney gave a good start to Australia by scoring 40 runs in 32 balls. Ellyse Perry also scored 30 off 24 balls, while Phoebe Lichfield contributed 18 runs to take the team to 148/6.

Chasing the target, New Zealand was all out for 88 runs in 19.2 overs. Amelia Kerr scored the most runs for the team. He played an innings of 29 runs in 31 balls. However, in this match New Zealand had to face defeat by 60 runs.

Big change in point table

India had to lose the first match to New Zealand. In such a situation, it has become difficult for Team India to reach the semi-finals. But in its second match, India kept alive its hopes of reaching the semi-finals by defeating Pakistan. Now after the match played between Australia and New Zealand, India's path has become a little easier. Because in the 2 matches played so far, New Zealand, Pakistan and India have won 1-1. But India is still at fourth place in the points table. Because the run rate of the team is not good. To reach the semi-finals, India will not only have to win all the matches but will also have to win with a good run rate.

point table position

Australia is currently at the first position in Group A with 2 wins and 4 points from 2 matches, while Pakistan is at the second position with 2 points, while New Zealand has moved up to the third position. India is at the fourth position while Sri Lanka is at the last position with 0 points.