{"id":100908,"date":"2026-02-14T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100908"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:08:04","slug":"england-outclass-scotland-in-t20-world-cup-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/england-outclass-scotland-in-t20-world-cup-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"England outclass Scotland in T20 World Cup thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/former-england-sussex-fast-bowler-tony-pigott-dies-aged-67\/\">England<\/a> defeated Scotland by 5 wickets in the 23rd match of the T20 World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the day-night match played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, England achieved the target of 153 runs in 18.2 overs for the loss of 5 wickets and won with 10 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Scotland scored 152 runs in 19.4 overs. Captain Richie Barrington played a responsible innings of 49 runs while Michael Jones scored 33 runs. For England, Adil Rashid took 3 wickets while Jofra Archer and Liam Dawson took two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of the target, England had a disappointing start and the first two wickets fell early, however, Tom Benton played a brilliant batting and played a match-winning innings of 63 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Curran scored 28 and Will Jacks scored an unbeaten 16 to lead the team to victory. With this victory, England further consolidated their position in Group C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: England defeated Scotland by 5 wickets in the 23rd match of the T20 World Cup 2026. In the day-night match played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, England achieved the target of 153 runs in 18.2 overs for the loss of 5 wickets and won with 10 balls to spare. Earlier, Scotland scored 152 runs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":100909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35591,32204],"class_list":["post-100908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-captain-richie-barrington","tag-t20-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100911,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100908\/revisions\/100911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}