Adelaide 2022: The loss that changed India’s white-ball cricket | Cricket News
4 min readMar 5, 2026 01:36 PM IST Sometimes, it takes a loss to cause a revolution. For India’s white-ball cricket, it took a chastening defeat to turn things over. On November 10, 2022, they got a 10-wicket thrashing from England at the Adelaide Oval in the T20 World Cup semi-final. It was then that the alarm bells began ringing for their approach in white-ball cricket. India batted first and scored 168/6 in their 20 overs. They got a boost from Hardik Pandya’s late attack of 63 runs off 33 balls. They had struggled to gain momentum in their innings in the first half and scored slowly in the middle overs before Pandya’s late attack gave them a respectable score. England’s opening pair had a different approach when they came to bat. Jos Buttler and Alex Hales attacked from the very beginning and didn’t allow India to settle in. They scored 170 runs for the opening wicket and completed the chase in just 16 overs. India’s bowlers had been left without answers. Crucially, the game …
