{"id":11968,"date":"2022-11-10T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:26:37","slug":"t20-world-cup-brilliant-hales-buttler-rout-india-as-england-cruise-into-t20-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/t20-world-cup-brilliant-hales-buttler-rout-india-as-england-cruise-into-t20-final\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Brilliant Hales, Buttler rout India as England cruise into T20 final"},"content":{"rendered":"

T20 World Cup: Brilliant Hales, Buttler rout India as England cruise into T20 final. Alex Hales<\/a> and Jos Buttler hammered brilliant unbeaten half-centuries as England crushed India by 10 wickets on Thursday to set up a T20 World Cup final with Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Chasing 169 for victory in the second semi-final in Adelaide, Hales smashed seven sixes in his 86 and Buttler, who made 80, hit three in a spellbinding batting performance to cruise into Sunday’s final in Melbourne with four overs to spare.<\/p>\n

Hardik Pandya’s 33-ball 63 guided India to 168-6, but the total proved inadequate for an inspired opening pair, as England chase their second T20 crown after their 2010 triumph.<\/p>\n

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England captain Buttler smashed Bhuvneshwar Kumar for three boundaries in the opening over of their chase and his side never looked back.<\/p>\n

He kept up the batting onslaught and Hales soon joined the big-hitting party as England raced to 63-0 in six overs.<\/p>\n

Hales reached his 50 off 28 balls and was severe on Axar Patel, who leaked 28 runs in his three overs as the match was torn away from India in a flurry of sixes and fours.<\/p>\n

Hales raised the team’s 100 with another six off Pandya and Buttler soon changed gears to catch up with his partner.<\/p>\n

The skipper reached his fifty with a six and a four off Pandya to douse any hopes of India attempting to end their world title drought since their 2013 Champions Trophy triumph.<\/p>\n

He fittingly hit the winning runs with a six off Mohammed Shami to set up a repeat of the 1992 50-over World Cup final between Pakistan and England, which Pakistan won.<\/p>\n

Pandya fireworks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier Virat Kohli made his fourth half-century of the tournament and put on a 61-run fourth-wicket stand with Pandya, who tore into the opposition attack in the final overs, taking 57 off the final three overs, including 20 off one from Sam Curran.<\/p>\n

But it proved too little, too late, after a sluggish start with the bat against some disciplined England bowling and then a ragged performance in the field.<\/p>\n

Chris Jordan, in the side for the injured Mark Wood, picked up three wickets.<\/p>\n

England invited India to bat and KL Rahul began with a cracking boundary off Ben Stokes.<\/p>\n

Seamer Chris Woakes had Rahul caught behind off a rising delivery for five.<\/p>\n

Skipper Rohit Sharma hit four boundaries after a scratchy start as he and Kohli attempted to rebuild but Jordan broke through in his first over and ended a 43-run partnership when Sharma mistimed to wide long-on with the score on 57.<\/p>\n

Suryakumar Yadav smashed a six and four off Stokes but soon fell to Adil Rashid’s leg-spin for 14.<\/p>\n

Kohli passed 4,000 T20 international runs with a boundary off Liam Livingstone that took India’s total to 100-3 after 15 overs.<\/p>\n

Kohli, who leads the tournament batting chart with 296 runs, reached 50 off 39 balls but fell next delivery to a sharp catch at short third man by Rashid off Jordan.<\/p>\n

Pandya smashed four fours and five sixes before treading on his stumps to be out hit wicket off Jordan’s final ball of the innings.<\/p>\n

Lineups<\/strong><\/p>\n

India: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh.<\/p>\n

England: Jos Buttler (c\/wk), Alex Hales, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T20 World Cup: Brilliant Hales, Buttler rout India as England cruise into T20 final. Alex Hales and Jos Buttler hammered brilliant unbeaten half-centuries as England crushed India by 10 wickets on Thursday to set up a T20 World Cup final with Pakistan. Chasing 169 for victory in the second semi-final in Adelaide, Hales smashed seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[7022,507,7437,1254,139],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-alex-hales","tag-england","tag-jos-buttler","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","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=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}