{"id":40906,"date":"2024-06-28T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40906"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:08:13","slug":"india-through-to-t20-wc-final-after-outplaying-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world-cup-2024\/india-through-to-t20-wc-final-after-outplaying-england\/","title":{"rendered":"India through to T20 WC final after outplaying England"},"content":{"rendered":"
GUYANA: Defending champions England’s T20 World Cup 2024<\/a> campaign ended after India thrashed English men by 68 runs in the second semi-final at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Thursday.<\/div>\n
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England, set a challenging target of 172, slumped to 103 all out inside 17 overs, wrist spinner Kuldeep finishing with figures of 3-19 and the orthodox Patel 3-23.<\/p>\n

India, bidding for their first major title since the 2013 Champions Trophy, will now play South Africa<\/a> — also unbeaten at this tournament after a nine-wicket hammering of Afghanistan in their semi-final — in Saturday’s final in Barbados.<\/p>\n

The Kensington Oval clash will also be India’s second appearance in successive World Cup after they lost on home soil to Australia in last year’s 50-over World Cup final.<\/p>\n

“It’s very satisfying to win this game,” said India skipper Rohit Sharma after his team gained revenge for a humiliating 10-wicket loss to England in the semi-finals of the 2022 T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

“We worked hard as a unit. To win like that was a great effort from everybody.”<\/p>\n

Rohit laid the foundations by top-scoring with 57 in a total of 171-7 after his side were somewhat surprisingly sent into bat by England skipper Jos Buttler.<\/p>\n

It was the opener’s third fifty of the tournament and second in as many games following his blistering 92 against Australia.<\/p>\n

India were 40-2 in the powerplay after Virat Kohli (nine) and Rishabh Pant (four) both fell cheaply. But a third-wicket stand of 73 between Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav (47), spanning a rain delay of over an hour, turned the tide.<\/p>\n

Patel, the player of the match, said: “I knew that the wicket was stopping and had something for the bowlers…Our batters told us the pitch wasn’t easy to hit the ball. We felt it (171) was a good total.”<\/p>\n

Defeat meant the only Test side that England had beaten at this event were co-hosts the West Indies, with the title-holders also losing to Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n

“India outplayed us, certainly,” said Buttler. “We let them maybe get 20-25 too many (runs) on a challenging surface that they played well on. They fully deserved to win.<\/p>\n

“They’ve got some fantastic spinners. Our two (Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone) bowled well but in hindsight, probably should’ve bowled Moeen (Ali) in our innings with the way spin was playing.<\/p>\n

“But with a good score and their brilliant bowling attack, it was always going to be a tough chase.<\/p>\n

Buttler launched England’s reply with a brisk 23. When he attempted to reverse sweep Patel’s first ball, however, he clipped a gentle catch off the toe-end of the bat to wicketkeeper Pant.<\/p>\n

Fellow opener Phil Salt was then clean bowled by Jasprit Bumrah’s well-disguised slower ball. England then saw 34-2 become 35-3 when Patel bowled dangerman Jonny Bairstow for a duck. Moeen was then stumped by Pant and when Sam Curran was lbw to Kuldeep, England were in dire straits at 49-5 in the ninth over.<\/p>\n

Wickets continued to tumble and when Livingstone, the last of England’s specialist batsmen, was run out for 11 after a dreadful mix-up with Jofra Archer, England were all but beaten at 86-8.<\/p>\n

Archer struck a couple of defiant sixes but Bumrah ended the match when he had the England paceman lbw for 21 with a low full toss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GUYANA: Defending champions England’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign ended after India thrashed English men by 68 runs in the second semi-final at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Thursday. England, set a challenging target of 172, slumped to 103 all out inside 17 overs, wrist spinner Kuldeep finishing with figures of 3-19 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18058],"tags":[19180,19178,19179,19177,19011],"class_list":["post-40906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world-cup-2024","tag-india-beat-england-in-t20-world-cup","tag-india-england-semi-final","tag-india-vs-england","tag-india-vs-south-africa-final","tag-t20-world-cup-semi-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40906","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40916,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40906\/revisions\/40916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}