Former England captain Nasser Hussain dismissed the notion that India had a preferential pitch, weather, and scheduling in the T20 World Cup as they advanced to the final with a dominant 68-run victory against the defending champions.

Former England cricketers Michael Vaughan and David Lloyd have been outspoken in their opposition to the ICC's decision to give India the second semi-final despite their Super Eight standing, as well as the fact that Rohit Sharma's men were the only top side not to play a single match under lights throughout the tournament.

"The narrative will be that everything on Thursday was geared towards India reaching the T20 World Cup final — the surface, the venue, all seemed to be in their favour. But if you look at things in greater detail, they came into this semi-final against England having just beaten 50-over world champions Australia on a bouncier, good pitch in St Lucia, and reverted to a lower, slower pitch and won comfortably. Fair play to them for the way they played and it feels right that India and South Africa, the two unbeaten sides in the tournament, go head to head in Barbados on Saturday," Hussain wrote in his Daily Mail column.

In the match, India beat England by a big margin of 68 runs in the second semi-final of the ICC T20 World Cup on Thursday (June 27) at the Providence Stadium in Guyana. They destroyed the reigning champions England, bowling them out for a meager 103 after scoring 171 runs with a great batting display on a tough pitch.