At last what was feared happened. Team India has jeopardized its chances of reaching the semi-finals of the Women's T20 World Cup 2024. The Indian team, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, was defeated by defending champion Australia by 9 runs in a close match. With this, India's hope of reaching the semi-finals on its own ended. Team India now has only one way to reach the semi-finals and for this it will need help from its neighbor Pakistan. The same Pakistan, which Team India itself had defeated a week ago.

Team India had to face defeat from Australia in its last match of Group A in Sharjah. India needed to win this match at any cost to strengthen its chances of reaching the semi-finals. If Team India had won this match, it would have got 6 points and would have been closer to the semi-finals. However, even then Team India would have had to wait for the result of the last match of this group between Pakistan and New Zealand, but then the Indian team would have been in a better position.

After the defeat against Australia, Team India is still at second place in the points table with 4 points. New Zealand also has 4 points but is in third place. The only difference between the two teams is the net run rate. India's net run rate is 0.322, while New Zealand's is 0.282. But New Zealand has one match left and this match will be played in Dubai on Monday 14 October. Now the equation of reaching the semi-finals is very easy.

If New Zealand wins this match, it will get 6 points and will reach the semi-finals. On the other hand, if Pakistan somehow pulls off an upset and defeats New Zealand, then all three teams will be on 4 points each but only Team India will have better net run rate and will reach the semi-finals. But if Pakistan somehow defeats New Zealand by a margin of 53 or more runs, then it will leave both the teams and reach the semi-finals.

The start of the tournament was not good for Team India. In its very first match, it had to face a crushing defeat at the hands of New Zealand by 58 runs. This defeat seems to be weighing heavy on him in the end. After this, the Indian team made a comeback in the tournament by defeating Pakistan and Sri Lanka and strengthened its chances of semi-finals by reaching second place, but once again the impenetrable wall in the form of Australia was in front of it and once again Team India came close to breaking it. Missed.