India qualified for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final Thursday after rain washed out their semi-final against England in Sydney, because the Women in Blue had finished top of their qualifying pool.
This is the first time the Indian women’s team has made it to the T20 World Cup final, and its growing fan-base was pleased to see it reach this grand stage — the Harmanpreet Kaur-led squad will face hosts Australia in the final at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground Sunday, International Women’s Day.
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However, the more ardent lovers of the game have criticised the game’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), for not having a reserve day for the semi-finals, both of which were scheduled to be played at the same venue on the same day. Australia and South Africa eventually got on the ground for a truncated second semi-final that the hosts won.
Former England men’s captain Michael Vaughan called the India-England abandonment a “shambles”, while sports commentator Geoff Lemon questioned how none of the national cricket boards who had signed on to such a condition bothered to consider the worst-case scenario.
