India’s women cricket team has been gifted a spot in the finals of the T20 World Cup as rains play spoilsport, not allowing a single ball to be bowled at the SCG for the first semi-final against India and England. Both the semi-finals are scheduled to be played on the same venue on the same day, one after the other.
Rather than adhering to the appeal of having a reserve day and rescheduling the matches on the reserve days from the CA authorities, ICC decided to go ahead with the old plan resulting in a washout semi-final. The second semifinal may also suffer from a similar fate as the chances of rains at SCG today are quite high, upto 50-70%
Semi Final 1. It's all over! Match abandoned without a ball bowled https://t.co/SIVRhY0JOc #IndvEng #T20WorldCup #TeamIndia
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) March 5, 2020
The #INDvENG semifinal is called off due to rain. #TeamIndia 🇮🇳🇮🇳 make it to their maiden #T20WorldCup final. pic.twitter.com/y4rfDWjzFi
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) March 5, 2020
While some Indians fans have expressed their joy in seeing the Indian team enter the first women’s T20 World Cup final, many fans are agitated with the poor scheduling. Most of the cricket fans have expressed their sympathy for the English women team who got knocked out without getting a chance to showcase their skills against India in the semi-final.
As an Indian fan, this would make you happy.
But as a cricket fan, you would be disheartened.The semi-final match between Ind vs Eng is officially abandoned!#INDvENG #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/QkyVmC0pyR
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) March 5, 2020
Match abandoned without a ball being bowled.
A gutting way for our #T20WorldCup journey to end.#WeAreEngland pic.twitter.com/xXROAIU9j4
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) March 5, 2020
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First semi called off. @BCCIWomen make their 1st @T20WorldCup final. Feel for @englandcricket team!! Not the way you want to end your campaign and get into the final.
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93) March 5, 2020
Driving us crazy – seriously feel for the players 🙁 https://t.co/nTK91WxFJB
— Isa Guha (@isaguha) March 5, 2020
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Absolutely heartbroken for the England Cricket girls. Knocked out of the T20 World Cup because of the weather.
I only think it’s only fair to call the second game off as well now @CricketAus ? 😉😉#T20WorldCup #BBCCricket #WeAreEngland pic.twitter.com/MeDT0Xr36r
— Alexandra Hartley (@AlexHartley93) March 5, 2020
Twitterati has started to flood the social platform for memes and funny GIFS to everyone’s amusement. Here are few of the net ones for your entertainment.
Snapshot into the ICC meeting regarding the #T20WorldCup#SydneyRain #SAvAUS #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/TbhOglQawE
— CricBlog ✍ (@cric_blog) March 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/p_s_0/status/1235443756070916096?s=20
The captains of England Women’s cricket team and the Indian women’s team Heather Knight and Harmanpreet Kaur also share their thoughts after the semi-final.
"We've been playing knock-out cricket since game two. That puts us in good stead going into the semi-final."
Heather Knight is pleased with her team's fightback since their opening defeat to South Africa.#T20WorldCup | #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/xyzg01T7XU
— T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) March 5, 2020
"It is unfortunate not to get a game due to the weather. But that's how the rules go," says Harmanpreet Kaur. #INDvENG #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/kdCAE9dWT9
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) March 5, 2020
The International Cricket Council has fallen under criticism for not following Cricket Australia’s advice as we may now have both the semi-finals getting called off due to thunderstorms. The final will be played on 8th March at the Melbourne Cricket Ground which coincidently also happens to be International Women’s Day.
