England vs India: Jos Buttler’s facet crash out in T20 World Cup semi-final after being skittled for 103 | Cricket Information

India’s spinners crushed a woeful England facet within the T20 World Cup semi-final as they secured a dominant 68-run victory on the Guyana Nationwide Stadium.

India will meet unbeaten facet South Africa, who earlier thrashed Afghanistan, within the closing in Barbados on Saturday (3pm), dwell on Sky Sports activities.

Rohit Sharma’s males posted 171-7 in a rain-interrupted innings after being requested to bat first, after which bowled England out for 103 with 20 balls to spare, with left-arm spinner Axar Patel (3-23) and wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav (3-19) doing the injury because the defending champions had been unable to counter the assault.

England appeared in hassle after they misplaced Jos Buttler (23) and Phil Salt (5) early on within the powerplay and had been unable to get well throughout their innings, shedding their closing 5 wickets for under 35 runs towards a rampant India facet as they fell from 68-5 within the eleventh over to 103 all out.

Earlier, Rohit Sharma (57) introduced up his third half-century of the match and shared a 73-run partnership with Suryakumar Yadav (47) between the rain delays, to assist their facet submit a robust complete on a pitch with low bounce and excessive flip.

England’s Chris Jordan (2-27) took two wickets in two balls within the 18th over, eradicating Hardik Pandya (23) and Shivam Dube (0), whereas Adil Rashid (1-25), Reece Topley (1-25), Jofra Archer (1-33) and Sam Curran (1-25) all took one wicket every.

Nevertheless, ultimately India managed to get revenge for the World Cup semi-final in Adelaide two years in the past the place England had been victorious and ended up being topped double world champions. Buttler’s facet have now misplaced each these titles after crashing out of the 50-over World Cup in India final yr.

Rohit guides India to robust complete

India got here into this recreation with a bonus given there was no reserve day scheduled for the second semi-final and, by advantage of being on the prime of the desk, they might have certified for the ultimate within the occasion of a washout.

The groups took to the sector after a delayed toss with Rohit and Suryakumar serving to their facet to 65-2 by the eighth over earlier than rain interrupted play at 5.23pm, the groups resuming at 6.40pm.

Rohit introduced up his fifty in type after sweeping Curran for a most over nice leg within the thirteenth over, however the India skipper performed the incorrect size and was outdone by an outstanding googly from spinner Adil Rashid within the following over.

Suryakumar top-edged Archer to long-on the place he discovered the protected arms of Chris Jordan, leaving India 124-4.

Jordan was hit for consecutive sixes by Hardik within the 18th over just for the all-rounder to gap out subsequent ball. The tempo bowler eliminated Shivam Dube (0) for a golden duck however his hat-trick ball did not come to fruition this time with Axar guiding it to cowl for a single.

Jordan picked up his third wicket within the penultimate ball of India’s innings after Axar swatted him straight to Salt at long-on.

India steamroll to victory

England had been skittled by a formidable India assault who took wickets frequently to ship the defending champions on their method dwelling and march into the T20 World Cup closing undefeated.

Buttler, who scored an unbeaten 82 off 38 balls of their recreation towards the USA, was caught by Pant within the fourth over after he tried to reverse-sweep Axar.

Salt (5) departed cheaply within the following over after being bowled by a sluggish off-cutter from Jasprit Bumrah (2-12) that struck his leg-stump.

Axar dismissed Jonny Bairstow (0) for a duck with a supply that stayed low to depart England faltering on 35-3 by the tip of the powerplay.

The defending champions added 11 extra runs earlier than left-arm spinner Axar struck once more and had Moeen Ali (8) stumped as he skipped down the pitch trying to hit huge however missed his shot.

Wrist-spinner Kuldeep took the subsequent three wickets, trapping Curran (2) and Jordan (1) lbw and bowling Harry Brook (25), who posted England’s highest rating of their innings, as they slipped to 72-7.

Liam Livingstone (11), who was England’s final hope, added 11 extra to their complete, however a combination up within the center with Archer price him his wicket when he was run out on the non-striker’s finish by Kuldeep.

Rashid (2) was run out by some unimaginable fielding from Suryakumar, who managed a back-handed direct hit on the stumps.

Bumrah mopped up the tail when he had Archer trapped lbw with a low full toss. England reviewed the on-field resolution that was initially given out however Hawk-Eye confirmed it was clipping leg stump.

Buttler: India outplayed us

England captain Jos Buttler:

“India definitely outplayed us. They totally deserved their win.

“We allow them to get 20-25 runs too many. It was a difficult floor that they performed properly on. I do not assume the toss was the distinction between the groups. They out-bowled us and had an above-par rating.”

‘Kohli saving his greatest for closing’

India’s captain Rohit Sharma:

“We labored very exhausting as a unit and to win this recreation like that was an ideal effort from everyone.

“I believed we tailored to the situations rather well… they had been actually difficult. And that has been the success story for us to this point [in this tournament].”

On Virat Kohli, who scored simply 9 runs and has simply 75 from seven innings within the match:

“Kohli is a high quality participant. Any participant can undergo a nasty patch. We perceive his class and his significance in these huge video games.

“Type is rarely an issue if you’ve performed cricket for 15 years. He is wanting good, the intent is there and he is in all probability saving it for the ultimate.”

Watch the T20 World Cup closing in Barbados from 3pm on Saturday (3.30pm first ball), dwell on Sky Sports activities Cricket.