Why was there no reserve day in the semi-final between India vs England?: All eyes are on the second semi-final between India and England. The team that wins this match will take on South Africa in the final of the T20 World Cup. This match will be played tonight at 8 pm according to Indian time. Usually ICC keeps a reserve day for knockout matches in its tournament. Reserve day means that if the match is not held on the scheduled day, then the match should be held the next day. But the surprising thing is that there is no reserve day in the second semi-final match to be played between India and England.
When the ICC released the schedule of T20 World Cup 2024, there was no reserve day for the second semi-final match. Everyone was surprised at this. But now the ICC has told why it has not kept a reserve day for the second semi-final match.
Why did the ICC take this decision?
This semi-final match between India and England is to be played at Providence Stadium in Guyana. It is raining continuously in Guyana, due to which this match is in trouble. In such a situation, the question in everyone's mind is why ICC has not kept a reserve day whereas ICC had kept a reserve day for the first semi-final match. The question about ICC is that why did the cricket's regulatory body discriminate between the two semi-finals?
An ICC spokesperson has said that since there is only one day's difference between the second semi-final and the final. The spokesperson said that the team winning the second semi-final match should get enough time to rest before the final, so a reserve day has not been kept for the second semi-final match.
The website ESPNcricinfo quoted an ICC spokesperson as saying in its report, Looking at the performance, our effort was to avoid a situation where teams play, then travel and then play again, so we have kept extra time for the second semi-final match as the match will start at 10:30 am. The first semi-final was in the evening so a reserve day was kept for that match, so extra time could not be given in this match on that day.
What will happen if the semi-final match doesn't take place?
There are rain clouds hovering over the match between India and England. It is raining intermittently in Guyana and hence there is doubt over the match. If the match does not take place due to rain, then the Indian team will directly reach the final. The reason for this is that Team India had finished the Super-8 stage at number one.
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