Stats: Team India's record in the semi-finals
While chasing, Team India has won 6 out of 9 semis while defending the target, they have won 6 out of 10.
Team India made it to the semi-finals of the 5th consecutive ICC event since 2013 as they defeated South Africa in a must-win game by a margin of 8 wickets in the 2017 Champions Trophy. This will be the 5th time India will play a semi-final of the Champions Trophy; the joint-most number of times along with the South Africans. Overall, this is the 14th time India have made it to the semi-finals of an ICC tournament. Australia also have made into semis of 14 ICC events.
India does have a pretty good record while playing in the semis as they won 3 of the previous 4 semi-finals in the CT; the only one they lost was in 1998, the inaugural edition of the Champions Trophy. In the 13 semi-finals they played in ICC events so far, India went through to the final 8 times and had to return home in 5 tournaments.
Two of the last 5 semi-final losses for India in the ICC events came in the previous two ICC events; the 2015 World Cup and 2016 World T20. Between 2000 and 2014, India played in 7 ICC tournament semis and won all those matches. Other than the ICC events, India has played 6 semi-finals in International cricket (all in ODI format) which were in multi-nation tournaments.
In the 19 semis India has played in the International cricket, they lost 7 and won 12 for making it to the finals. India won both the semi-finals they played in England before this tournament; the 1983 World and the 2013 Champions Trophy. They won all the 6 semi-finals they played outside Asia before losing at Sydney to Australia in the 2015 World Cup. While chasing, Team India has won 6 out of 9 semis while defending the target, they have won 6 out of 10.
List of semi-finals India have played in International cricket:
| Tourament | Result | Margin | Opposition | Ground | Date |
| 1983 ICC World Cup | won | 6 wickets (32 balls) | England | Manchester | 22-Jun-1983 |
| 1985 World Championship | won | 7 wickets (39 balls) | New Zealand | Sydney | 5-Mar-1985 |
| 1986 Austral-Asia Cup | won | 3 wickets (5 balls) | Sri Lanka | Sharjah | 13-Apr-1986 |
| 1987 ICC World Cup | lost | 35 runs | England | Mumbai | 5-Nov-1987 |
| 1988 Champions Trophy (IND-PAK-WI) | lost | 8 wickets (60 balls) | West Indies | Sharjah | 21-Oct-1988 |
| 1989 MRF World Series | lost | 8 wickets (47 balls) | West Indies | Mumbai | 30-Oct-1989 |
| 1993 Hero Cup | won | 2 runs | South Africa | Kolkata | 24-Nov-1993 |
| 1994 Austral-Asia Cup | won | 7 wickets (26 runs) | Australia | Sharjah | 19-Apr-1994 |
| 1996 ICC World Cup | lost | Awarded | Sri Lanka | Kolkata | 13-Mar-1996 |
| 1998 ICC Champions Trophy | lost | 6 wickets (18 balls) | West Indies | Dhaka | 31-Oct-1998 |
| 2000 ICC Champions Trophy | won | 95 runs | South Africa | Nairobi (Gym) | 13-Oct-2000 |
| 2002 ICC Champions Trophy | won | 10 runs | South Africa | Colombo (RPS) | 25-Sep-2002 |
| 2003 ICC World Cup | won | 91 runs | Kenya | Durban | 20-Mar-2003 |
| 2007 ICC World T20 | won | 15 runs | Australia | Durban | 22-Sep-2007 |
| 2011 ICC World Cup | won | 29 runs | Pakistan | Mohali | 30-Mar-2011 |
| 2013 ICC Champions Trophy | won | 8 wickets (90 balls) | Sri Lanka | Cardiff | 20-Jun-2013 |
| 2014 ICC World T20 | won | 6 wickets (5 balls) | South Africa | Dhaka | 4-Apr-2014 |
| 2015 ICC World Cup | lost | 95 runs | Australia | Sydney | 26-Mar-2015 |
| 2016 ICC World T20 | lost | 7 wickets (2 balls) | West Indies | Mumbai | 31-Mar-2016 |
(Stats updated to 14th June 2017)
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