{"id":61415,"date":"2026-03-01T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=61415"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:23:45","slug":"icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026-india-qualify-for-semi-finals-beat-west-indies-in-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=61415","title":{"rendered":"ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026: India qualify for semi-finals, beat West Indies in thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The India national cricket team became the final side to qualify for the semi-finals after defeating the West Indies by five wickets in a high-scoring clash in Kolkata. India chased down a challenging 196-run target in the final over.<\/p>\n<p>Star performer Sanju Samson smashed an unbeaten 97, hitting 12 fours and 4 sixes to guide India to victory. For the West Indies, Jason Holder and Shamar Joseph picked up two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the West Indies posted 195 runs, powered by 40 from Roston Chase, 37 from Holder, and 34 from Rovman Powell.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals, India will face the England cricket team, while the other semi-final will see the New Zealand cricket team take on the South Africa cricket team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The India national cricket team became the final side to qualify for the semi-finals after defeating the West Indies by five wickets in a high-scoring clash in Kolkata. India chased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=61415\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61417,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61415\/revisions\/61417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}