England’s chances of reaching the Super 8 of T20 World Cup 2024 seem less. England is a team in Group B and Australia, Scotland, Namibia and Oman are also present with them. Oman and Namibia have been eliminated from this group and the race for the top 2 in the group is on between Scotland and England. Let us tell you that only 2 teams from one group can go to the Super 8.

In such a situation, Scotland’s chances seem to be higher because they have won 2 out of their 3 matches and due to one match being cancelled, they have a total of 5 points. On the other hand, England’s team has lost 1 out of their 2 matches and due to the second match being cancelled, they have just 1 point. England’s team is currently at the fourth position in the table, while Scotland is at the second position.

Australia can do fixing to eliminate England from T20 World Cup

Former Australian legend Tim Paine believes that if Australia wants to win this T20 World Cup, then they will have to reduce the threat. This threat can be posed by the England team. In such a situation, he wants Australia to lose its next match by a big margin to eliminate England from the tournament. Due to which the other team will benefit and England will go further down in the points table.

Tim Paine gave advice to fix the match

After Tim Paine’s statement, everyone’s attention is on the equation. Paine’s statement seems to smell of fixing. There are many occasions in sports when the future of a third team depends on the match result of two other teams and many times the result has been in favor of the outside team contrary to the expectations.

If the Australian team loses to Scotland here too, a big controversy can arise. However, the conditions are not really favorable for England. Their net run rate is minus 1.80 and in this case they are behind Scotland (2.164). Now if Scotland loses to Australia by a margin of 20 runs (if the target is 161), and England maintains a margin of victory of at least 94 runs in both its remaining matches, then only it will be able to go ahead of Scotland in terms of net run rate. Apart from this, England also needs the support of the weather. If one more of its matches gets cancelled, it will be out.

If Australia does this then captain Mitchell Marsh will be banned

If Marsh does this, he may face a ban. Marsh will be banned for two of his three Super Eight matches. Marsh can be charged under Article 2.11 of the ICC Code of Conduct if manipulation occurs, such as when a team deliberately loses a pool match in an ICC event in order to affect the position of other teams in that ICC event.