What happened in Sydney 8 years ago, happened in Lord’s 5 years ago, happened in Cape Town in 2023 and the result was the same.
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New Delhi: On one side the Indian men’s cricket team, on the other hand the Indian women’s cricket team. Story exactly one – failed to win the title. Failure to cross that barrier by reaching the semi-finals and finals of major tournaments. Along with all these similarities, now such a coincidence is also being added, which Indian team And the hearts of its fans are breaking. Not once, but repeatedly. This is an unwanted and bad coincidence – run out in knockout, which started in 2015 and continues till 2023 T20 World Cup.
Australia defeated India by a close margin of 5 runs in the semi-finals of the Women’s T20 World Cup in Cape Town on Thursday, 23 February. In response to the target of 173 runs from Australia, Team India was looking to win at one time, but then the run out of captain Harmanpreet Kaur changed everything.
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run out in knock out
In the 15th over, Harmanpreet Kaur was run out trying to take two runs. The run out was also not by mistake, but by bad luck because before reaching the crease, her bat had sunk into the ground and due to this she could not reach the crease. From here Australia came back and snatched the victory from the hands of India.
2015- Sydney’s Sorrow
However, this was not the first time when a run out in a knockout match snatched away the chance of victory from Team India. In the semi-finals of the Men’s World Cup in 2015, Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was seen saving Team India by playing an excellent inning against Australia, but he was run out on the score of 65 runs and Team India lost the match from there.
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2017- Lords of Pain
Then in 2017, something similar happened in the Women’s ODI World Cup. Under the captaincy of Mithali Raj, Team India reached the final, where England was in front of it. After stopping England for just 228 runs, India had a good chance of winning and there were high hopes from the in-form captain Mithali but she was run out in the 13th over itself. Even after this, the team had reached close to victory and only 11 runs were needed in 16 balls but Shikha Pandey was run out and Team India lost.
2019 – The agony of Manchester
The 2019 World Cup semi-final was the most heartbreaking. Exactly the same pain Harmanpreet Kaur’s run out gave. Team India was again in trouble in the semi-final against New Zealand and then Mahendra Singh Dhoni was taking the team to victory but he was run out on a precise throw on the third ball of the 49th over. The memory and pain of that run out are still fresh in the minds of Indian fans.
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