India, England eye T20 World Cup final against Pakistan

The 2 top-ranked T20 sides meet within the second T20 World Cup semi-final with Pakistan ready within the remaining.

India is aiming to succeed in its first World Cup remaining since 2014. [Surjeet YADAV / AFP]

Who: England vs India

When:
November 10, 08:00 GMT
The place: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia

This matchup between the 2 highest-ranked T20 groups guarantees to be a captivating encounter.

India and England enter the semifinal on a good footing. Whereas they've each had eye-catching performances thus far within the match, their weak point have been uncovered by their opponents.

Oh, and if India win, Pakistan are ready for them in Melbourne for the decider.

Head-to-head

India have received 12 out of 20 T20s towards England. This will likely be their fourth assembly in a T20 World Cup, with England having received simply as soon as.

India have inflicted damaging victories over England on this match. In 2007, Yuvraj SIngh famously hit Stuart Broad for six sixes and within the 2012 version, England had been bundled out for 80. It stays their joint lowest whole in T20s and is the joint third-lowest rating in T20 World Cup historical past.

That was additionally the final time the 2 performed one another within the World Cup.

Path to the ultimate

India started their World Cup with a dramatic last-ball win over Pakistan.

After simply defeating the Netherlands, India’s first lack of the match got here towards South Africa. Regardless of Suryakumar Yadav’s late fightback, the 133 runs they posted on the board was simply chased down.

Rain and Litton Das gave India a quick scare of their recreation towards Bangladesh however in the end they prevailed. Their spot within the semifinals was sealed earlier than the ultimate group recreation towards Zimbabwe and the 71 run win that adopted was a confidence-boosting end result forward of the England recreation.

England haven't hit their stride within the match. Whereas they routed Afghanistan of their opening recreation, they had been felled by Eire in a recreation marred by the rain.

Their match towards Australia being rained out, Captain Jos Buttler led from the entrance towards New Zealand with a exceptional 73 of 47 that noticed them win by 20 runs. A win towards Sri Lanka of their remaining group recreation noticed England by means of and holders Australia knocked out.

Key matchups

A vital battle within the recreation will likely be between England’s batting and India’s bowling.

Whereas each have come thus far comparatively unscathed, they've been unconvincing. Jasprit Bumrah’s harm was an infinite blow to India’s probabilities. Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep Singh have ably crammed the outlet of his absence however have proven indicators of being prone to counter attacking batting.

Virat Kohli is the present main scorer of the match with 246 runs, carefully adopted by Suryakumar Yadav in third with 226.

For England, it's a type of batting that Buttler, and far of the England batting lineup, has made his title for. The English captain has been woefully wanting his greatest on this World Cup. Nevertheless, Buttler, along with Alex Hales up high, units the tone for the remainder of the innings as he confirmed within the recreation towards New Zealand.

Sam Curran has been England’s greatest participant within the match: 10 wickets with a mean of 9.4 and the one participant thus far within the match to take a five-wicket haul.

He  has ably supported by pacer Mark Wooden and spinner Adil Rashid, who've each wonderful tournaments thus far too.

Curran
Sam Curran has been England’s greatest participant on the match thus far [Patrick Hamilton / AFP]

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