West Indies defeated USA by 9 wickets in the Super-8 Group 2 match of T20 World Cup 2024. In this victory of West Indies, Shai Hope played the biggest innings of his T20 International. During this, he along with Nicholas Pooran made a tremendous attack with the bat, which also made USA's star bowler Saurabh Netravalkar a victim.

After West Indies' victory over USA, the game of Group 2 in Super-8 has now become even more exciting.

Before we come to how the fight of Group 2 in Super-8 has taken an interesting turn, it is important to know the situation of the match between USA and West Indies. In this match, USA batted first and were all out after scoring 128 runs in 19.5 overs. No batsman from USA could even cross the 30 run mark in this match. Andre Russell and Roston Chase took 3-3 wickets for West Indies.

Shay Hope and Nicholas Pooran's blast

Now the host West Indies had a target of 129 runs, to chase which Shai Hope and Johnson Charles added 67 runs in 7 overs for the first wicket.

After Charles was out after scoring 15 runs, Nicholas Pooran came to the crease to support Shai Hope. Hope also became more aggressive than before after getting the support of Pooran. As a result, USA bowlers started getting exposed one by one.

Shai Hope played the biggest innings of T20I

Both Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran remained unbeaten till the end. That is, they returned only after winning the match for the team. Shai Hope scored an unbeaten 82 runs in just 39 balls.

This innings of Hope, adorned with 8 sixes and 4 fours, is the biggest innings of his T20 International career. Earlier in the year 2018, he had scored 55 runs against Bangladesh.

Puran's attack was seen on Netravalkar

On the other hand, talking about Nicholas Pooran, he scored an unbeaten 27 runs in 12 balls. Pooran also hit 3 sixes in his innings. Out of these, 2 sixes came in that over of USA bowler Saurabh Netravalkar, in which the script for the end of the match was written. This was the 11th over of West Indies' innings, in which Pooran hit a six on the second and third ball, while Shai Hope sealed the victory for West Indies by hitting the 5th ball across the boundary line.

West Indies' victory makes Super-8 battle exciting

Now the question is how has the battle of Super-8 Group 2 become interesting after West Indies' victory over USA? So for this it is important to look at the run rate of England, West Indies and South Africa. Because after the second defeat, USA's team is now almost out of the race for the semi-finals. England, West Indies and South Africa, all three have run rates in plus and there is a slight difference between them.

South Africa has 4 points after 2 wins in 2 matches in Super-8 and its run rate is +0.625. West Indies' winning account has also opened in its second match of Super-8. In such a situation, its run rate is +1.814 with 2 points. England's run rate is +0.412 and it also has 2 points in its account.

Now the thrill is that if England defeats USA in its last match of Super-8 on 23rd June, then the match between West Indies and South Africa will be like a knockout. Meaning whoever loses will be out. Because after winning against USA, England's team will definitely reach the semi-finals.