{"id":512558,"date":"2026-03-01T21:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512558\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:27:11","slug":"india-defeat-west-indies-to-reach-semi-finals-sanju-samson-97-not-out-scorecard-match-report-results-latest-news-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512558\/","title":{"rendered":"India defeat West Indies to reach semi-finals, Sanju Samson 97 not out, scorecard, match report, results, latest news, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanju Samson\u2019s sparkling unbeaten 97 kept alive India\u2019s dream of retaining the T20 World Cup at home as they knocked out the West Indies with a five-wicket win in Kolkata on Sunday to set up a semi-final against England.<\/p>\n<p>Samson hit 12 fours and four sixes in his superb 50-ball knock in the winner-takes-all final Super Eights match to thrill a capacity 67,000 fans at a pulsating Eden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch the Australia Women\u2019s team take on India LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX CRICKET, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After the West Indies smacked 70 off the last five overs to score 195-4 after being asked to bat, India lost two early wickets but were always up with the required rate.<\/p>\n<p>Samson, opening for the second match in succession, led the way. When India slipped to 41-2 Samson was joined by captain Suryakumar Yadav (18) and the pair added 58 for the third wicket.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Sanju Samson prays as he celebrates his team&#8217;s win against West Indies.Source: AFP<\/p>\n<p>Tilak Varma was next to join Samson and scored 27 off 15 before departing in the 15th over with the score 141-4 and India still needing 55.<\/p>\n<p>Samson stood firm and though Hardik Pandya fell for 17 India reached the target with four balls to spare to spark celebrations and fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means the whole world to me,\u201d Samson said. \u201cRight from the day I started playing, started dreaming to play for the country, I think this is the day I was waiting for.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Samson said he learned the art of finishing matches \u201cfrom the greats like Virat Kohli, from Rohit Sharma.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jason Holder and Rovman Powell earlier put on an unbroken stand of 76 for the fifth wicket to help the West Indies set the defending champions a target of 196 to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>The West Indies sprang a surprise at the top of the order, promoting Test captain Roston Chase to open alongside T20 skipper Shai Hope.<\/p>\n<p>That enabled them to bring in an extra spinner, Akeal Hosein, with regular opener Brandon King left out.<\/p>\n<p>In their defeat to South Africa last week the West Indies slumped to 83-7 but the new-look opening partnership was more assured.<\/p>\n<p>Spinner Varun Chakravarthy got the first breakthrough, bowling Hope for a sluggish 32.<\/p>\n<p>Shimron Hetmyer raced to 27 off 12 balls before falling to the faintest of edges off Jasprit Bumrah to make it 102-2.<\/p>\n<p>After Chase fell for 40 and Sherfane Rutherford followed, Powell and Holder launched their brutal late assault.<\/p>\n<p>Powell finished on 34 not out from 19 balls with two sixes and three fours while Holder was unbeaten on 37 off 22 balls with three sixes and two fours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe a few short, especially on a chasing ground such as this,\u201d said a disappointed Hope. \u201cProbably could have gone a bit more at the end. Probably could have got more at the start as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\ufeffGet all the latest cricket news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=CricketArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It could have been better for India but they dropped three regulation catches in a sloppy fielding display, including Chase when he had made just 15.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, the only unbeaten side in the tournament, beat Zimbabwe by five wickets earlier on Sunday and will face New Zealand in Kolkata in the first semi-final on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The final is in Ahmedabad next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanju Samson\u2019s sparkling unbeaten 97 kept alive India\u2019s dream of retaining the T20 World Cup at home as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,2620,31021,1724,64,63,689,155027,740,1950,1208,2057,1209,10478,40425,11471,1736,256606,3583,677,101165,256605,45258,26819,43196,26793,256603,1183,18780,12540,85,58866,112587,2131,256604],"class_list":["post-512558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-africa","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alyssa-healy","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-banga","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-jason-holder","tag-kolkata","tag-match-report","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-look-opening-partnership","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-record-run-chase","tag-regular-opener","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-roston-chase","tag-sanju-samson","tag-shai-hope","tag-sloppy-fielding-display","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-suryakumar-yadav","tag-varun-chakravarthy","tag-virat-kohli","tag-winner-takes-all-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}