The big teams who played directly in the World Cup like never before in any World Cup, and the small teams who came in through the qualifiers have shown a threatening game and performed big upsets in this World Cup. So in this post we can see about the upsets caused by small teams in this 2022 T20 World Cup.
Namibia & Karthik Meiyappan upset Sri Lanka
Even though Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup by defeating India and Pakistan, Sri Lanka played in the qualifiers due to the ICC rankings and fewer wins in international T20 matches. In this case, the first match of 2022 T20 World Cup started between Sri Lanka and Namibia. While the Sri Lankan team was going to win the match, the Namibian team, who mixed both batting and bowling, won the Sri Lankan team by 55 runs. The Sri Lankan team crossed 100 runs and were all out as the bowlers added some runs.
UAE spinner Karthik Meiyappan took a hat-trick of wickets against the Sri Lankan team in the next UAE match as well.
Scotland defeated West Indies
Just as the Sri Lankan team was shocked by defeat in the first match, the Scotland team beat the West Indies by 42 runs in the next match and gave us the next shock that we are in the field to challenge the big teams. West Indies were bowled out for 118 runs with 7 batsmen getting out in single digit runs.
A win by beating a big team by a large margin
The Irish team defeated the West Indies by 9 wickets and won the match. Chasing down 147 runs, the Irish team won by scoring 150 runs losing just 1 wicket at the end of 17 overs.
Ireland beat the England team
Ireland batted first against England in the Super 12 round. The top-order batsmen chased England’s bowling with sixes and fours. Ireland scored 157 runs despite the loss of wickets by all the players who continued to play. Ireland then shocked the England players who came on the field by throwing them out successively with tremendous bowling. Ireland beat England by 5 runs using the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-interrupted match. Losing too many wickets at the start was the reason for the defeat.
Zimbabwe has disturbed Pakistan’s peace
After taking a big blow from India in the first match, Pakistan team met Zimbabwe in the second match. Pakistan, who have not come out of defeat against India, have left the match easily winnable. With a well-timed performance, Zimbabwe won the first over by 1 run off the final ball. By losing this match, Pakistan team was forced to win all the upcoming matches.
The biggest upset in this World Cup
South Africa retained the top spot in Group 2 after defeating a big team like India. In this case, the South African team faced the Netherlands team in the last group match. It was expected to win this match and easily enter the semi-finals. But on the contrary, the South African team, which has not recovered from the curse of always accepting defeat if it is a stressful match, showed a bad performance in this match and lost to the Netherlands by 13 runs and South Africa has left the World Cup.