Rohit Sharma came out all guns blazing against Australia in their last Super 8 clash. The Indian skipper was in destructive mode against the tournament favourites as Team India smashed 100 in just 8.4 overs—the fastest by any team in the T20 World Cup. The impact of Rohit's innings was such that at one stage, out of the team’s total of 52-1, 50 came off the captain’s bat. His 41-ball 92-run knock was laced with seven fours and eight sixes. In this process, he also became the first player to hit 200 sixes in T20Is. The opener also recorded the fastest half-century of the 2024 T20 World Cup, completing it in just 19 balls, and also became the first Indian captain to win a Man of the Match award in T20 World Cup. He continued his fine form in the semi-final against England to emerge as the top-scorer of the match with 57 off 39 balls. He, however, was dismissed for just nine off five balls in the final—also his last T20I innings—against South Africa. 

Afghanistan shocked one and all with their stunning performance to enter the T20 World Cup semi-final for the first time, thanks to an impressive show by the opening pair of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran. The openers registered four 50-plus runs partnerships in the 2024 T20 World Cup including three century stands, the most by a pair in a single edition. Gurbaz and Zadran shared 154 in their opening match against Uganda, 103 versus New Zealand, 118 against Australia, and 59 in a must-win game against Bangladesh. In this process, the duo also broke the record for most runs by a pair in the single edition (428) to go past Pakistan's Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan (411) during the 2021 edition held in the UAE.

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Chris Jordan bagged a hat-trick against the USA in their last Super 8 encounter to become the first English player to achieve this feat in T20Is. The right-arm pacer dismissed the last four USA batters in five balls as the first-timers collapsed from 115-6 to 115 all out in the 19th over. Jordan’s victims included Ali Khan, Nosthush Kenjige and Saurabh Netravalkar. It was also the third hat-trick in the 2024 T20 World Cup after Australia’s Pat Cummins became the first bowler to bag back-to-back hat-tricks in T20Is.