England in semi-finals with fourth win

Sharjah. England’s team has become the first team to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. The team registered its fourth consecutive win in the tournament on Monday. The team defeated Sri Lanka by 26 runs. Playing first, England scored 163 runs for 4 wickets. Jos Buttler scored 101 not out. This is the first century of his T20 International career. In reply, Sri Lanka’s team could only score 137 runs for 10 wickets. Earlier, England had also defeated Australia, Bangladesh and West Indies. With three defeats, the former champion Sri Lanka team is out of the last-4 race. Sri Lanka won the T20 World Cup title in 2014. At the same time, the team of England has won the title in 2010.

Chasing the target, Sri Lanka did not have a good start. The team had lost 3 wickets for 34 runs. Charit Aslanka scored 24 runs. Bhanuka Rajapakse got out for 26 and Avishka Fernando scored 13 runs. In this way, the team lost 5 wickets for 76 runs. The team had to score 51 runs in the last 5 overs. Leg spinner Adil Rashid gave 2 big successes to the team.

Captain Dasun Shanaka and Wanindu Hasaranga took over the team with a half-century partnership for the sixth wicket. Hasaranga scored 34 runs off the ball of Liam Livingstone. He hit 3 fours and a six in 21 balls. The team had to score 34 runs in the last 3 overs. Shanaka was run out after scoring 26 runs. In the 18th over, Jordan gave only 4 runs and 2 wickets fell in the over. The team got out after scoring 137 runs in 19 overs. Maine Ali and Jordan also got 2-2 wickets.

Earlier, after losing the toss, going to play first, the start of England was not good. The team lost 3 wickets for 35 runs. After this, Butler scored an unbeaten 101 off 67 balls and captain Eoin Morgan scored 40 runs in 36 balls. Both added 112 runs in 78 balls for the fourth wicket. Butler faced 67 balls. Hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. That is, he scored 60 runs from the boundary.
England’s score was 105 for 3 after 15 overs. The team added 58 runs in the last 5 overs. Morgan hit one four and three sixes. Wanindu Hasaranga took 3 wickets for 21 runs for Sri Lanka. He has 34 wickets this year. He has also become the highest wicket-taker in T20 Internationals in a calendar year.