{"id":428316,"date":"2026-02-16T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:46:09","slug":"t20-world-cup-permutations-what-do-england-australia-pakistan-need-to-reach-super-8s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428316\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup permutations: What do England, Australia &#038; Pakistan need to reach Super 8s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top two teams in each group &#8211; A to D &#8211; will progress to the Super 8s, which will be made up of two groups of four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If any teams are level on points after the four group-stage fixtures, they will be separated by number of wins and then net run-rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The International Cricket Council has pre-determined the Super 8 groups if the eight seeded sides qualify:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">X Group: India (X1), Australia (X2), West Indies (X3), South Africa (X4)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Y Group: England (Y1), New Zealand (Y2), Pakistan (Y3), Sri Lanka (Y4)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If any of those sides do not progress, the teams who do in their place will just fill the spot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each team plays three more matches in the Super 8s phase, facing each of the other teams in their group once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After those fixtures, the top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals, with the winner of each Super 8s group facing the runner-up from the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top two teams in each group &#8211; A to D &#8211; will progress to the Super 8s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-428316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}