IND vs AUS T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: India into the semis, set 2022 T20 WC semifinal rematch with England

And India have won this. They beat Australia by 24 runs. India will now face England in the semifinal of T20 World Cup 2024. A rematch of the 2022 T20 WC semifinal coming up now

The hole where Australia have fallen has got deeper now. Tim David has been caught at short third

And India are moments away from a win here. Rohit Sharma takes Travis Head's catch in a reverse-role of that ODI World Cup final (even though that was way too tough). And now Kuldeep takes a brilliant low catch at short-third to send 6 down

And India are officially into the semis of the World Cup. Australia needed to chase this in 15.3 overs to pip India's NRR but they can't do it. So India are through.

And Kuldeep takes out the Big Show Maxwell. This is a massive blow. Kuldeep cleans up Maxwell on a wrong-un, that was not picked by Maxwell. It was dipping and Maxwell is cleaned up. India get a big opening.

And now it is starting to tilt in Australia's way. Maxwell reverse sweeps Jadeja for a four and a six and Aussies are marching on. Australia 116/2 after 11

Head has brought up his fifty in 24 balls. A brilliant knock by the Aussie. He is hurting India now

Is that an aeroplane? Is that a bird? No, it is a flying Axar Patel with potentially the catch of the tournament.

Well this is not going to be that easy for India. After the departure of Warner, Head and Marsh are taking the Aussies ahead. They take on Bumrah and Hardik. Australia 65/1 after 6.

Mitchell Marsh smashes Arshdeep Singh for two fours and a six in the third over to ease off some pressure created after David Warner's early dismissal.

AUS - 22/1 in 3 overs.

Australia need 184 runs in 102 balls to win the game.

Jasprit Bumrah concedes just 2 runs in the second over to keep Australia under pressure in powerplay overs. A brilliant start from Indian bowlers.

AUS - 8/1 in 2 overs.

Arshdeep Singh draws the first first by removing David Warner on the last delivery of the first over. Suryakumar Yadav takes a brilliant catch at slip.

David Warner scored 6 runs off 6 balls. Mitchell Marsh joins Travis Head in the middle.

AUS - 6/1 in 1 over.

Australia openers David Warner and Travis Head are out in the middle to kick off innings at Daren Sammu National Cricket Ground.

The left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh to bowl the first over for India.

Australia need 206 runs in 120 balls to win the game.

And India have crossed the 200-run mark. Jadeja's six takes them past 200 and it's a big total. This is the highest total against Australia in a T20 World Cup game. This is a big target and it seems that the pitch is wearing down. Batting, when the ball gets old, might not be easy and Australia will have to bat out of their skins to chase this.

The scoring rate has now declined a bit. 26 runs from the last four overs. Only one four in the last four overs and that came in the 18th over from Hardik Pandya. India 181/4 after 18. Will they get 210?

And the carnage is on. India get to their 150 in just 13.4 overs. This is great batting. Surya and Dube are in the middle currently. Oh no, Surya has been dismissed. He has been outdone by a slower ball from Starc that was kept away from the right-hander. He goes back for 31 from 16 balls

Ohh no, it's over. Rohit will not get to his hundred today. He departs for 92 in only 41 balls. Starc pins the yorker right on the mark to Rohit and that will be the end of Rohit now.

Rohit Sharma is eyeing a hundred here. He is about to enter in the 90s and the Indian fans are dancing in St Lucia. India 114/2 after 10 overs. Time for drinks. What a first half this has been

Pant has to walk back. While Rohit is destroying the Aussies, Pant has top-edged one towards mid-off and has been caught out. India 93/2 after 8

Stop what you are doing. This is modern-day great batting. Rohit is on a different level today and is toying with the bowlers. He now rips into Stoinis for two sixes and a four. It is all happening in St Lucia.

And Rohit has raced to his fifty in just 19 balls. This is the fastest of this World Cup

In about 10 minutes, we are back to the business. The rain has gone away and the players are back in the middle. Rohit has started in the same vein.

Rohit is on 5th gear today. He has already hit five sixes today. A couple of giant ones. He is on 41 from 14 balls.

And as Rohit was bossing this out, rain has decided to intervene in between. Rain has come and the game has been stopped

Rohit Sharma has decided to give it back to the Aussies. Two back-to-back sixes and then a four. OMG, he goes aerial again and gets his third six of the over. Another one, four sixes in the over, one four and a wide. 29 from that over, India are up and running. 

Virat Kohli is dismissed for a duck. Hazlewood gets the big fish. The second time Virat has been dismissed for a duck against Australia in T20Is. This was banged in short and Virat went for the pull but could not get the middle of the bat. Tim David races from mid-wicket behind to take a good catch.

Rohit Sharma looked to guide this almost wide-line ball but has got a bit of a bat on it, which went to the slips. Umpires went upstairs to have a look but it was a full toss and the ball bounced after hitting the bat on it's way to the slip fielder. No harm for India

And now, it's time for the real action to begin. Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli out in the middle. Mitchell Starc has the new ball in hand. From over the wicket with one slip in place.

It's time for the anthems before the real action begins. India's 'Jan Gan Man' first, followed by Australia's 'Advance Australia Fair'

The wind is blowing at St Lucia ahead of the game. Teams would look to reap the benefits from it.

We are going to bowl first. Looks a belter, it looks lovely. It's a quarte final, looking forward to it, big challenge against India. We have had ourselves in this situation before, every game is a must-win now. We got an experienced group, a great staff. Starc comes in for Agar.

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah

Australia (Playing XI): Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh(c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Australia skipper Marsh has won the toss and has sent India to bat first. One change for Australia, Mitchell Starc returns back for Ashton Agar. India are going with the same team with no Mohammed Siraj. 

We are minutes away from the flip of the coin. The captains will enter the field now for the toss

India only need a win to confirm their place in the semifinals of the tournament. A washout will do for them. India can still qualify for the semis after losing, proving they don't lose big so that their NRR does not fall below Australia's and Afghanistan's (if AFG beat BAN)

It is good Sunny weather in St Lucia ahead of the game. The players are training on the ground and we are not far away from the toss.

Watch our live coverage of the India vs Australia clash in St Lucia with Samip Rajguru.

Australia captain Mitchell Marsh believed his team has what is needed to bounce back after the loss to Afghanistan. "We have a lot of belief in our group. We are a very good cricket team. Yes, tonight we had an off night but I guess there's also a positive in the fact that in 36 hours we go again. It's a big game, it will be against India, obviously, and it's a must-win game. I think if you look back at the short history of this team, I know for a fact that it brings out the best in our guys, so the boys will certainly be up and about for it," Marsh said after the game vs Afghanistan.

The Indian team has reached the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium. We saw the players stepping out from the team bus and going into the ground. 

It seems Virat is Aus ka Boss. He has played 22 T20Is against Australia and has scored 794 runs in them. He has eight fifty-plus scores against them but no hundred as of yet. Will Kohli continue his run against the Aussies?

Meanwhile, India's squad for five-match series vs Zimbabwe has been announced.

India squad: Ꮪhubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), Nitish Reddy, Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande.

India are batting with a more free-flowing approach with batters going all guns blazing at most times. India skipper Rohit opened on India's approach in the tournament. "In T20s, I don't believe you need to get fifties and hundreds. How you can put pressure on the opposition is what matters. All the batters were trying to do that from the word go. That's how we want to play and encourage ourselves to go forward. Yes, you need to understand the conditions as well, but we have a lot of experience in the squad, and we back them to use that experience on the field," Rohit said ahead of the India vs Australia game. 

For India, they are pretty easy. You win and you are through. For Australia, a bit dependent on the result of the Afghanistan vs Bangladesh game. If Australia win by a run against India or chase the score on the last ball, they can still get knocked out if Afghanistan beat Bangladesh by 36 runs or win in 15.4 overs or less.

Bangladesh are also in mathematically but only just. They need India to win by a big margin and defeat Afghanistan by a big one too for them to sail through

It rained in Gros Islet, St Lucia on the morning of the match day but the sun came out a little while earlier. There are chances of precipitation during the match-time at 10 AM local time but they are as low as 11% as per Accuweather. We expect that the game will take place, even though it can be intervened by showers in between.

It's India vs Australia, an already epic rivalry in International cricket. Add to it the November 19 thing, the ongoing tussle for the semis in T20 World Cup 2024, and it becomes a clash of a different level.

Some seven months before, Australia shattered the dreams of 1.4 billion Indians in that ODI World Cup 2023 final. Now, India have a chance to kick the Aussies out of the race from the semis of this T20 World Cup seven oceans far from where they suffered a heartbreak.

They might need some help from Afghanistan too but first, this is a very crucial clash for them too as they have not booked their place in the semis. India in semis, Aussies out, anyone disagree? Stay tuned as I, Varun Malik, take you across this game in St Lucia.