Match Features

Analysis, takeaways and everything around matches.

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Finn Allen: A World Cup special and a tantalising teaser

The NZ opener flexed his batting muscles in Kolkata - his soon-to-be IPL home - on a special World Cup knockout night with a 33-ball 100

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Match Features • Mar 05

Death by match-ups

How Mitchell Santner's tactical switches dismantled South Africa on a big World Cup night

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Match Features • Mar 04

Wrong South Africa turn up, and are sent home

After seven straight wins, Aiden Markram's side unravelled when it mattered most, blown away by a blistering Finn Allen hundred

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Match Features • Mar 03

Qualification nerves, shifting conditions and a semifinal

New Zealand have not been the most convincing in the Super Eights, but they're here, as determined as the other three teams to go the distance

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Match Features • Feb 19

Zimbabwe learn to live with the noise

A win over Sri Lanka in front of a partisan Colombo crowd did two things: it proved Australia wasn't an accident and hardened Zimbabwe for what comes next

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Match Features • Feb 18

Abhishek's hat-trick of ducks: India's unexpected hiccup highlights a deeper pattern

Abhishek Sharma is yet to score a run in this T20 World Cup, collecting his third duck against the Netherlands in Ahmedabad

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Match Features • Feb 17

The night Wankhede belonged to Nepal, and Airee

It was Nepal's first World Cup win in 12 years, and scores of Nepali fans celebrated as if Dashain came early

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Match Features • Feb 17

Netherlands chase one more spotlight moment against India

After nearly stunning Pakistan in the opener, the Dutch face hosts India in what could be their final game of the tournament. For Scott Edwards' side, it is another shot at proving they belong on the biggest stage

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Match Features • Feb 15

The pull of spin, the choice of seam

A sluggish R. Premadasa surface invited imitation, but India chose patience, conviction and their own plan, and let the result follow

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Match Features • Feb 15

How Ishan's head start defined the match thereafter

While almost every batter from either side virtually struck to the script of run-a-ball, Ishan Kishan operated in a different plane

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Match Features • Feb 14

Rain, rituals and rivalry: India-Pakistan clash braces for the uncontrollables in Colombo

Will rain play spoilsport? Will the teams revert to shaking hands before and after the game?

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Match Features • Feb 13

Chennai turns up, but the Dutch don't

On a night where almost 20000 turned up at the Chepauk to watch two associate nations, the Dutch dampened their Super 8 hopes with a poor performance

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Match Features • Feb 13

South Africa, New Zealand stoke Valentine's Day bromance

Southern Hemisphere kinship meets World Cup baggage and now a coaching-switch adds to the intrigue

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Match Features • Feb 12

Namibia stare into the bright lights

The glare of a World Cup night against India in India was not too bright for Namibia. They stared straight at it, never looking away for fear of being blinded by the luminescence

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