{"id":100563,"date":"2026-02-11T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100563"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:14:50","slug":"after-two-losses-can-afghanistan-still-qualify-for-wc-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/after-two-losses-can-afghanistan-still-qualify-for-wc-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"After two losses, can Afghanistan still qualify for WC semis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: After losing two consecutive matches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/haris-rauf-might-be-excluded-from-team-for-icc-mens-t20-world-cup\/\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup<\/a>, fans of the Afghanistan cricket team were disappointed, and the team&#8217;s journey in the event became extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are curious to know if Afghanistan crashed out of the World Cup. After two consecutive defeats, Afghanistan is currently third in Group D with a net run rate of -0.555.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and South Africa are first and second with 4 points each after playing two matches. Each team has 4 matches to play, and the top 2 teams will advance to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing 2 matches, Afghanistan can still qualify for the next round, but their journey is very difficult, but not impossible.<\/p>\n<h3>How can Afghanistan qualify for the Super 8 stage?<\/h3>\n<p>To make it to the Super 8, Afghanistan will not only have to win their remaining two matches (against UAE and Canada) by a large margin, but they will also have to hope that South Africa or New Zealand suffer large losses in their remaining two group matches.<\/p>\n<p>If all these conditions are met, Afghanistan can advance to the next stage by finishing in the top 2 based on a better net run rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: After losing two consecutive matches in the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, fans of the Afghanistan cricket team were disappointed, and the team&#8217;s journey in the event became extremely difficult. Fans are curious to know if Afghanistan crashed out of the World Cup. After two consecutive defeats, Afghanistan is currently third in Group D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":86100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[389,35313],"class_list":["post-100563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-wc-t20-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100564,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100563\/revisions\/100564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}