Team India locked horns with England cricket team in the second semi-final of this T20 World Cup at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide. Rohit Sharma and Co had finished first on the Group 2 points table with 4 victories, one defeat.
On the contrary, England finished second on Group 1 points table with 3 wins, 1 defeat and 1 no result. England skipper Jos Buttler won the toss and invited the Men in Blue to bat first.
Team India managed to post 168 for the loss of six wickets in their designated quota of 20 overs. Hardik Pandya top-scored with 63 off 33 balls including four boundaries and five sixes to his name.
England humiliate Team India in the second semi-final
In reply, England openers got off to a rollicking start to the game in the form of Jos Buttler and Alex Hales. Both the batters complimented each other quite beautifully.
Both the batters scored runs at the rate of knots and lit up the powerplay overs by smashing sixes and fours at will. The duo never looked like losing the plot as they ended up winning the game with ease.
England cricket team humiliated the Indian cricket team as they won the game by 10 wickets with four overs to spare. Meanwhile, India still have plenty of lessons to learn. Alex Hales top-scored with 86 off 47 balls including 4 fours, 7 sixes.
On the other hand, Jos Buttler scored 80 off 49 balls with the help of nine boundaries and three hits over the fence. Indian bowlers failed to bring the best out of themselves and didn’t take even a single wicket.
Teams:
India (Playing XI):
KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
Bench: Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Deepak Hooda
England (Playing XI):
Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid
Bench: David Willey, Tymal Mills, Dawid Malan, Mark Wood
Twitter Reacts:
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— A (@NighttCrawlerrr) November 10, 2022
You forget to mention India's consecutive series win #INDvsENG https://t.co/UaVIZXBPnX
— Zeeshan Yar Gondal (@Zeeshangondal05) November 10, 2022
India Qualified for Airport 🥹 https://t.co/hnKMRcBmcX
— Ć¦É‘É¦Ď‹É â±®alhotra (@Raowl07) November 10, 2022
Even Shameful is a small word here. https://t.co/tAaSJYUJKz
— Hriday (@Hriday1812) November 10, 2022
Hall of Shame Performance https://t.co/OjWCDidTkJ
— Arif Khan (@King___Babar56) November 10, 2022
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— ritzzing ~ (@bluemoonxstar) November 10, 2022
10 wickets ?? We have Seen This Before ? DO you @IrfanPathan https://t.co/fbthxDdhSI
— Shariq Abbasi🇵🇰 (@i_shariq_i) November 10, 2022
Indian cricket Twitter suddenly gone very very quiet… 🤣
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 10, 2022
