The Indian badminton team sealed a place in the knockout stage of the Sudirman Cup mixed team championship, despite Indonesia pulling off 3-2 victory over Denmark in the last match of the Group 1D at Gold Coast in Australia today. Ninth seeded India had kept themselves afloat for a quarterfinal spot after shocking fifth seeded Indonesia 4-1 in a thrilling match yesterday. All the three teams — India, Denmark and Indonesia won one of the two matches that they played but the first two teams qualified riding on their game score i.e the number of games won in favour and lost to from each match played in the league. Denmark topped the group with six wins and four losses, followed by India 5-5. Indonesia won 4 matches and lost 6 after the completion of the league stage. India, have reached the knockout stage of the tournament only once earlier during the 2011 edition.