India swept to a 47-run victory over Afghanistan in their T20 World Cup Super Eight clash after Suryakumar Yadav struck his second successive half-century and Jasprit Bumrah proved his worth with the ball.

South Africa beat the United States by 18 runs in the first T20 World Cup Super 8 game in Antigua on Wednesday as Kagiso Rabada’s experience came to the fore at the end of a tense game.

Kane Williamson has stepped down as captain of New Zealand’s white-ball teams and opted out of a national contract for the 2024/25 season following the Black Caps’ early exit from the T20 World Cup.

A dead rubber win over minnows Papua New Guinea offered little consolation for eliminated New Zealand whose poor Twenty20 World Cup campaign may ultimately mark the end of an era.

Pace bowler Lockie Ferguson grabbed three wickets as he bowled four maiden overs in New Zealand’s thumping victory over Papua New Guinea in the final match for both teams at the T20 World Cup.

Captain Babar Azam guided Pakistan through a nervy chase as they ended their T20 World Cup campaign with a three-wicket win over Ireland in the last Group A match, a dead rubber after both teams were already eliminated.

Australia broke Scottish hearts with a hardfought five-wicket victory in St Lucia that sent the Scots home from the Twenty20 World Cup and title holders England through to the Super Eight stage.

Harry Brook made a rapid unbeaten 47 as England beat Namibia by 41 runs in a rain-hit reduced overs match in Antigua that left the holders on the brink of the T20 World Cup knockout phase after being in serious danger of crashing out.

India’s T20 World Cup group match against Canada in Lauderhill, Florida was abandoned, after rain left the Central Broward Park stadium with wet patches in the outfield.

The USA qualified for the Super 8s stage of the T20 World Cup after their match against Ireland in Florida was washed out.

West Indies batsman Sherfane Rutherford transformed a match his team appeared doomed to lose to New Zealand on Wednesday with a scintillating unbeaten 68 from 39 balls to propel the home side into the T20 World Cup Super Eight stage.

India qualified for the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup with a seven-wicket win over the United States, with a fifty by Suryakumar Yadav and Arshdeep Singh’s four-wicket haul helping them clinch their third win in a row.