{"id":2574,"date":"2021-07-16T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=126928"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:37:55","slug":"india-in-group-2-of-t20-world-cup-2021-with-pakistan-new-zealand-and-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-in-group-2-of-t20-world-cup-2021-with-pakistan-new-zealand-and-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"India in Group 2 of T20 World Cup 2021 with Pakistan, New Zealand and Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed the groups for the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021 on Friday that is held to be started on October 17 to November 14 in Oman and the United Arab Emirates.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The two groups have been designated in consonance with their team rankings as of March 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>India earned a place in Group 2 of Super 12s along with neighbour Pakistan, Afghanistan and New Zealand while Group 1 involves Australia, England, South Africa and West Indies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd29 Some mouth-watering match-ups in the Super 12 stage of the ICC Men's <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> 2021 \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Which clash are you most looking forward to?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z87ksC0dPk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z87ksC0dPk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7aLdpZYMtJ\">pic.twitter.com\/7aLdpZYMtJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T20WorldCup\/status\/1415978487878455298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to announce the groups for the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021. There are some great matchups offered by the groups and it starts to bring the event to life for our fans as our first multi-team event since the onset of the global pandemic draws closer,\u201d said ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardice.<\/p>\n<p>The first round will be challenged by eight teams comprising qualifiers Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the other six who finalized their spot in the qualification in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, Netherlands and Namibia will join Sri Lanka in Group A while Bangladesh will be enlisted by Oman, Papua New Guinea and Scotland in Group B.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Men's <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> 2021 groups are out \ud83d\udccb<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group will progress to the Super 12.<\/p>\n<p>Who are your picks? \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T9510AGiDS\">https:\/\/t.co\/T9510AGiDS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GoJ2QcctXE\">pic.twitter.com\/GoJ2QcctXE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T20 World Cup (@T20WorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T20WorldCup\/status\/1415972746836779009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good to get Oman in the frame of world cricket with the hosting of the T20 World Cup. It will help a lot of young players take an interest in the game,\u201d BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is in Group 2 of the T20 World Cup 2021 along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and New Zealand while Group 1 includes Australia, England, South Africa and West Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":25660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[768,1253,1809,164,254,242],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan","tag-bcci-president","tag-icc-t20-world-cup","tag-new-zealand","tag-south-africa","tag-west-indies"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}