The battle for the Super-8 in the T20 World Cup 2024 has become interesting. So far, India, Australia, West Indies, Afghanistan and South Africa have fully entered the next stage. But still 3 places are vacant, a match was played between Bangladesh and Netherlands (BAN vs NED) last Thursday. In which the Bangladesh team has staked its claim for the Super-8 by winning by 25 runs. Also, with their victory, a world champion team has been eliminated.

Shakib Al Hasan's stormy innings

• Bangladesh and Netherlands clashed in the T20 World Cup 2024 on 13 June in Kingston. After winning the toss, the Dutch team invited Nazmul Hasan Shanto's team to bat.
• After losing 2 wickets for just 23 runs, Bangladesh's biggest player Shakib Al Hasan played a brilliant inning of 64 runs in 46 balls which included 9 fours.
• Finally, he got the support of Mahmudullah and Zakir Ali. Both of them played important innings of 25 and 14 runs respectively. Due to which Bangladesh was able to score 159 runs.

The magic of Rishad Hossain's spin

• In reply to the target of 160, Netherlands kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
• Michael Levitt (18), Max O'Dowd (12) and Vikramjit Singh (26) got starts but none of the batsmen could convert them into big scores.
• In the end, Sibrand Engelbrecht raised hopes by scoring 33 runs in 22 balls but he did not get any support from the other side.
• Spinner Rashid Hossain took the maximum of 2 wickets. Apart from this, fast bowler Taskin Ahmed also got one wicket.
• Due to the efforts of these two, Bangladesh stopped Netherlands 25 runs behind the target of 160.

T20 World Cup 2024: This team is out due to Bangladesh's victory

• Sri Lanka has suffered the biggest loss due to this victory of Bangladesh.
• Because Sri Lanka, present in Group D, has not been able to win even one out of 3 matches so far.
• Out of which one match was washed out due to rain. In such a situation, now the team which was the T20 World Champion in 2014 is out of the T20 World Cup 2024.
• South Africa has qualified for the Super-8 from Group D. Apart from them, Bangladesh is in second place after winning 2 out of 3 matches.
• It is almost certain that the Bangladesh team will go to the Super-8 because Nepal and Netherlands in this group can only reach a maximum of 5 points. Bangladesh still has one match left.