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Reach the third final; to play South Africa on Sunday.
The hosts bowled out the visitors for 149 as they took the last seven wickets for only 20 runs to stymie South Africa’s efforts at levelling the series.
The previous record was 36 runs in an or set by India's Yuvraj Singh, West Indies' Kieron Pollard and Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee.
The 40-run win over the West Indies at the Providence Stadium in Georgetown on Saturday was their second success in six Tests in the 2023-25 cycle and moved them up to fifth in the standings.
The rain-affected first game in Trinidad was drawn but the second Test victory means South Africa have won 10 successive series against the Windies.
An Air India special charter flight named AIC24WC is set to bring back the Indian squad, its support staff, the players' families and some board officials and Indian media, who have been stranded there for the past three days due to Hurricane Beryl.
The co-hosts needed to beat South Africa in Antigua to reach the semifinals but despite taking the rain-disrupted match down to the wire their bid for a third title came to an end in a three-wicket loss.
Left-arm spinner Tabraiz Shamsi took 3/27 as tournament co-hosts West Indies were restricted to 135/8 in their 20 overs and, after the rain delay, the South Africans held their nerve to chase down their adjusted target of 123.
The Caribbean side bowled out the USA for 128 in the clash of the tournament co-hosts at Kensington Oval and then rattled off the target in 10.5 overs.
The meeting of the only two teams to have won the T20 World Cup twice was expected to be a run-fest and much of the credit for the win must go to the England bowlers for preventing the big-hitting locals from cutting loose.
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