Skip to main contentAdil Rashid’s Eight Dot Balls: A Fantasy Tactics Retrospective from India’s 168/6
Rashid’s 4-0-20 and eight dots explain the controlled middle overs; Hardik Pandya’s 33-ball 63 explains how India still reached 168/6.
On 10 November 2022, England and India met in the second semifinal of the Men's T20 World Cup at Adelaide Oval. India finished on 168/6 in their twenty overs; England, asked to chase, were looking at a target set in the second half of the innings by Hardik Pandya's 63 off 33 balls.
Adil Rashid's four overs cost 20 runs, included eight dot balls and removed Suryakumar Yadav during the slowdown phase. The Heritage Fantasy Desk reads the architecture of a knockout innings built on a middle-over leg-spin choke, the death-over triage that followed and the chase math that turned 168/6 from a working total into a reachable one.
