Team India got knocked out of the tournament after New Zealand thrashed Afghanistan by eight wickets and got through to the semi-finals. India needed the Afghans to win their last game of the Super 12 phase against the Blackcaps as it would have allowed India an opportunity to level with both them and New Zealand at six points.
India had blown both Scotland and Afghanistan in the last two games to improve their run rate in a grand manner but their performances in the first two games against Pakistan and New Zealand turned out to be the crushing blows.
India lost to their arch-rivals by a big margin of 10 wickets while the Blackcaps hammered them by eight wickets and pushed them to the brink of elimination.
India were one of the hot favorites to win the tournament and their elimination even before the semi-finals will come as big surprise for the fans across the world. Their batsmen never arrived in the tournament and after being blown by Shaheen Shah Afridi in the first game, they could not quite muster aggressive approach with the bat against New Zealand and have paid the price by getting knocked out of the tournament.