Onus is on India to not think about the knockouts as, properly, knockouts
Dissections of India’s World Cup records will leave you with a fuzzy feeling and an uncomfortable query: Which version might you select? The crew that is going through the group segment like hot knife in butter earlier than faltering in the knockouts, like in 2015, 2016 or 2019? Or could you instead choose the unsure phase of 2011—a tied in shape with England, observed via defeat to South Africa, interspersed with low-key victories towards Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands earlier than West Indies capitulated—earlier than India peaked at the right time?