In the second semi-final of ICC T20 World Cup 2022, England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and asked India to bat first at Adelaide Oval on Thursday.
India suffered a 10-wicket drubbing at the hands of England in the second semifinal to end their campaign at the T20 World Cup on an embarrassing note here on Thursday.
England thus entered the final where they will take on Pakistan at the MCG on Sunday.
Put in to bat, India posted 168 for six after Virat Kohli's 40-ball 50 and Hardik Pandya's 33-ball 63.
In reply, England made a mockery of the chase as they romped home with four overs to spare, with Alex Hales (86) and Jos Buttler (80) producing commanding fifties during their unbroken opening stand.
While the Indian bowlers cut a sorry figure and stayed wicket-less, Chris Jordan returned with 3 for 43 for England.
Brief Scores: India: 168 for 6 in 20 overs (Hardik Pandya 63, Virat Kohli 50; Chris Jordan 3/43, Adil Rashid 1/20).
England: 170 for no loss in 16 overs (Alex Hales 86, Jos Buttler 80; Arshdeep Singh 15/0).
India vs England Playing XI
India Playing XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
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.
England 170-0 after 16 overs; Alex Hales 86(47); Jos Buttler 80(49)
Shami continues...
Ball 6: Buttler finishes in style, smacks a SIX to win the game with 4 overs to spare.
Ball 5: Hales collects a single towards deep fine leg.
Ball 4: Hales hits towards extra cover for FOUR.
Ball 3: A single for Buttler.
Ball 2: A slow delivery, Buttler fails to put bat on ball. DOT
Ball 1: Buttler goes for a biggie but top-edged it to deep extra cover for a couple of runs.
England 156-0 after 15 overs; Alex Hales 81(45); Jos Buttler 71(45)
Axar Patel [3.0-0-28-0] is back into the attack
Ball 6: DOT
Ball 5: DOT
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: A single for Buttler.
Ball 2: DOT
Ball 1: Hales collects a single.
England 154-0 after 14 overs; Alex Hales 80(41); Jos Buttler 70(43)
Mohammed Shami [1.0-0-11-0] is back into the attack
Ball 6: Buttler goes for another biggie but fails to get desired timing, Surya drops a catch and ball rolls down to boundary line for FOUR.
Ball 5: Buttler slaps the over pitch delivery down the ground for a SIX.
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: Buttler chips over extra cover for FOUR towards deep extra cover.
Ball 2: DOT
Ball 1: DOT
England 140-0 after 13 overs; Alex Hales 80(41); Jos Buttler 56(37)
Hardik is back into the attack...
Ball 6: Buttler collects a single.
Ball 5: Buttler pulls the short delivery towards square leg for a SIX.
Ball 4: Buttler ramps the short delivery towards fine leg boundary for FOUR
Ball 3: Hales chips over mid-on for three runs.
Ball 2: Buttler collects a single.
Ball 1: Buttler collects a couple of runs.
England 123-0 after 12 overs; Alex Hales 77(40); Jos Buttler 42(32)
Ashwin is back into the attack...
Ball 6: Hales hammers through extra cover for FOUR. Equation: England need 46 runs in 48 balls
Ball 5: Hales sweeps powerfully towards the backward square leg for a SIX.
Ball 4: Buttler collects a single.
Ball 3: Buttler collects a couple of runs towards deep extra cover.
Ball 2: Hales collects a single.
Ball 1: Buttler collects a single.
England 108-0 after 11 overs; Alex Hales 66(37); Jos Buttler 38(29)
Arshdeep is introduced into the attack...
Ball 6: A short delivery, Hales ducks under it.
Ball 5: Buttler gets an inside edge onto the thigh pads, collects a quick single.
Ball 4: A single for Hales towards leg side.
Ball 3: DOT
Ball 2: Hales collects a couple of runs.
Ball 1: Hales smashes towards mid-wicket for a SIX.
England 98-0 after 10 overs; Alex Hales 57(32); Jos Buttler 37(28)
Arshdeep is introduced into the attack...
Ball 6: A single for Hales. England need 71 runs in 60 balls
Ball 5: Buttler collects a single.
Ball 4: Buttler pushes towards extra cover for no run.
Ball 3: Buttler hits straight to stumps, DOT.
Ball 2: Hales flicks towards deep backward square leg for a single.
Ball 1: A good length delivery, Hales pummels it towards extra cover for FOUR.
Hardik is limping and walking off, Pant is down, and so are India.
England 91-0 after 9 overs; Alex Hales 51(29); Jos Buttler 36(25)
Axar continues...
Ball 6: DOT
Ball 5: Buttler cuts straight to backward point for no runs.
Ball 4: Buttler gets a thick outside edge towards third man for a couple of runs.
Ball 3: Hardik beats Buttler outside off.
Ball 2: Buttler scoops without much timing for only a couple of runs but Shami concedes another two runs as he tries to make a relay throw. 4 runs taken in all.
Ball 1: Hales hits the back of length delivery towards deep square leg for a single.
England 84-0 after 8 overs; Alex Hales 50(28); Jos Buttler 30(20)
Axar continues...
Ball 6: A single for Hales and with this he reaches his fifty-run mark. Axar concedes 9 runs in the over.
Ball 5: Buttler hits towards sweeper cover for a single.
Ball 4: A single for Hales.
Ball 3: Axar beats Hales outside off.
Ball 2: Hales rocks back and smashes towards mid-wicket for a SIX.
Ball 1: DOT
England 75-0 after 7 overs; Alex Hales 42(23); Jos Buttler 29(19)
Axar continues...
Ball 6: A single for Hales down the ground. Ashwin concedes 12 runs in the over.
Ball 5: Hales sweeps towards deep backward square leg for a SIX
Ball 4: Buttler collects a single towards deep point.
Ball 3: Hales tucks towards leg side for an easy single.
Ball 3: TWO WIDES.
Ball 2: A conventional off spin, Buttler fails to put bat on ball.
Ball 1: Hales punches down the ground for a single.
England 63-0 after 6 overs; Alex Hales 33(19); Jos Buttler 28(17)
Axar continues...
Ball 6: Buttler smashes towards deep mid-wicket for FOUR.
Ball 5: Buttler pushes towards extra cover for NO RUN.
Ball 4: Buttler hits without any timing towards mid-wicket for no run.
Ball 3: Hales collects a single.
Ball 2: Hales sweeps towards the backward square leg for a SIX.
Ball 1: DOT
England 52-0 after 5 overs; Alex Hales 26(15); Jos Buttler 24(14)
Shami is introduced into the attack...
Ball 6: Hales drills out the yorker towards the mid-wicket pocket for a single.
Ball 5: Hales edges the ball outside off through wicket-keeper for FOUR.
Ball 4: A cutter on the pads, Hales tries to smack it but fails to put bat on ball, DOT.
Ball 3: DOT
Ball 2: Hales makes some room and wallops the ball towards long-on for a SIX.
Ball 1: Hales tucks the ball on the stumps defensively towards mid-wicket for no run.
England 41-0 after 4 overs; Alex Hales 15(10); Jos Buttler 24(14)
Bhuvi continues...
Ball 6: Hales works towards mid-wicket for a single.
Ball 5: A single for Buttler.
Ball 4: Hales collects a single.
Ball 3: Hales pushes back to the bowler for NO RUN.
Ball 2: Buttler mistimes towards covers. A single taken.
Ball 1: Buttler hits over extra cover for FOUR.
England 33-0 after 3 overs; Alex Hales 13(7); Jos Buttler 18(11)
Bhuvi continues...
Ball 6: Hales smashes towards deep mid-wicket for a couple of runs.
Ball 5: A short and wide delivery, Hales stands tall and tonks it towards long-off boundary for a SIX.
Ball 4: Hales chips over mid-wicket for a couple of runs.
Ball 3: Buttler pushes towards sweeper cover for a single.
Ball 2: Hales punches towards sweeper cover for a single.
Ball 1: Bhuvi beats Hales outside off for NO RUN.
Arshdeep Singh came in to bowl the 2nd over for India.
Opener Alex Hales opened his account with a single off the first ball.
Buttler continued his aggressive approach with another FOUR off the 2nd ball.
Arshdeep ended his first over, conceding 8 runs from it.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar came into bowl India's first over of the night.
Starting off with a wide, Buttler hit Bhuvi for a four on the 1st delivery of the over.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar recovered pretty well on the next delivery.
However, Buttler repeated the same shot for another FOUR through the gaps on the 3rd ball.
Two dots and another FOUR on the last delivery ended Bhuvi's first over in which he conceded 13 runs.
India 168-6 after 20 overs; Hardik Pandya 63(22); Rishabh Pant 5(2)
Sam Curran continues...
Ball 6: In search of big hit, Pandya gets hit-wicket as he stays too deep into the crease.
Ball 5: Pandya hits the juicy full toss toward square leg for FOUR.
Ball 4: Pandya smashes the full delivery into the longest boundary at long-on region for a SIX.
R Ashwin arrives at the crease.
Ball 3: A wide yorker, Pant fails to put bat on ball. hardik runs for a bye, Pant sacrifise his wicket as he gets RUNOUT.
Ball 2: Pandya hits uppishly towards deep extra cover for a single.
Ball 1: Pant hits towards deep extra cover for a single.
India 156-4 after 19 overs; Hardik Pandya 52(29); Rishabh Pant 5(2)
Sam Curran continues...
Ball 6: Pandya drills the full delivery towards deep mid-wicket. Ben Stokes makes a terrible fielding effort at the boundary line as ball rolls down for FOUR. FIFTY for PANDYA
Ball 5: Pandya rocks back and smashes the length delivery into mid-wicket stands for a SIX.
Ball 4: Pandya carves the wide yorker length delivery through backward point for FOUR.
Ball 3: Pant drills out the yorker towards deep square leg for a single.
Ball 2: Pant slices over backward point for FOUR.
Ball 1: Pandya collects a single.
India 136-4 after 18 overs; Hardik Pandya 37(25); Rishabh Pant 0(0)
Jordan continues...
Ball 6: Kohli gets out off the next ball after reaching his fifty-run mark.
Ball 5: Kohli drives towards deep extra cover for a couple of runs and hits yet another fifty in the ongoing T20 World Cup.
Ball 4: Pandya drills the yorker towards deep backward square leg for a single.
Ball 3: A short delivery, Panda misses a pull shot.
Ball 2: Pandya whips towards backward square leg for a SIX.
Ball 1: Pandya stays on backfoot and smashes the short delivery towards mid-wicket boundary for a SIX.
India 121-3 after 17 overs; Hardik Pandya 24(21); Virat Kohli 48(38)
Sam Curran continues..
Ball 6: A single for Pandya towards deep mid-wicket.
Ball 5: A short delivery, Pandya tries to scoop but misses it completely.
Ball 4: Pandya collects a couple of runs down the ground for a couple of runs
Ball 3: Pandya hits straight to extra cover. DOT
Ball 2: Pandya pulls the short delivery towards deep square leg for a couple of runs.
Ball 1: Pandya stays on backfoot and slaps the short and wide delivery to extra cover boundary for a SIX.
India 110-3 after 16 overs; Hardik Pandya 13(15); Virat Kohli 48(38)
Jordan continues..
Ball 6: A single for Pandya towards deep square leg.
Ball 5: A back of length delivery, Pandya hits but not able to get the desired timing for a couple of runs at mid-wicket pocket.
Ball 4: Kohli tucks towards mid-wicket for a single.
Ball 3: Kohli drives, handsomely, through extra cover for FOUR.
Ball 2: Kohli falls down while blocking full delivery followed by a loud appeal, umpire remains unmoved. England takes review, but it is a umpire's call.
Ball 1: Pandya hits the ball on the pads towards deep backward square leg for a single.
Ball 1: WIDE down the leg side.
India 100-3 after 15 overs; Hardik Pandya 9(12); Virat Kohli 43(35)
Livingstone continues..
Ball 6: Kohli drives along the ground towards deep extra cover for FOUR. 100 up for Team India
Ball 5: DOT
Ball 4: Pandya collects a single.
Ball 3: Pandya punches towards extra cover for NO RUN.
Ball 2: Pandya smacks the full delivery over umpire for FOUR.
Ball 1: Kohli collects a single towards mid-wicket.
India 90-3 after 14 overs; Hardik Pandya 4(9); Virat Kohli 38(32)
Chris Woakes is back into the attack...
Ball 6: A single for Kohli.
Ball 5: Pandya works towards mid-wicket for a single.
Ball 5: WIDE down the leg side
Ball 4: Kohli drives the full delivery down the ground for a single.
Ball 3: Kohli dissects the backward point and short third man fielder for FOUR.
Ball 2: A single for Hardik towards long-on.
Ball 1: Kohli works towards square leg for a single.
India 80-3 after 13 overs; Hardik Pandya 2(7); Virat Kohli 31(28)
Liam Livingstone is introduced into the attack and concedes only three singles.
India 77-3 after 12 overs; Hardik Pandya 1(3); Virat Kohli 29(26)
Adil Rashid continues...
Ball 6: A single for Kohli.
Ball 5: A single for Hardik.
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: Hardik Pandya arrives and defends.
Ball 2: Surya goes inside out for another biggie but fails to clear the extra cover boundary, GONE. Suryakumar Yadav c Philip Salt b Adil Rashid 14(10) [4s-1 6s-1]
Ball 1: Kohli collects a single.
India 74-2 after 11 overs; Suryakumar Yadav 14(9); Virat Kohli 27(24)
Chris Jordan comes into the attack..
Ball 6: Surya smashes over extra cover for FOUR. Some intent from India in sometime
Ball 5: A short delivery and Surya unleashes his pyrotechniques, dispatches it into fine leg boundary for a SIX.
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: Kohli clips towards deep square leg for a single.
Ball 2: Surya flicks towards deep backward square leg for a single.
Ball 1: DOT
India 62-2 after 10 overs; Suryakumar Yadav 3(4); Virat Kohli 26(23)
Chris Jordan comes into the attack..
Ball 6: Surya drives towards sweeper cover for a single. DRINKS BREAK
Ball 5: A loopy full toss and Kohli fails to make most of it, hits it towards long-on for a single.
Ball 4: Kohli drives towards extra cover for no run.
Ball 3: Kohli chips down the ground for a couple of runs.
Ball 2: Surya sweeps but it is too full for that, he hits from the bottom of the bat towards square leg for a single.
Ball 1: DOT
India 57-2 after 9 overs; Suryakumar Yadav 1(1); Virat Kohli 23(20)
Chris Jordan comes into the attack...
Ball 6: Surya arrives at the crease and opens his account right away.
Ball 5: Rohit tries to break the shackles but manages only a top-edge. Curran completes the catch at mid-wicket. Rohit departs for 28-ball 27
Ball 4: A cutter, Rohit mistimes it back to bowler. The ball falls short of Jordan. DOT
Ball 3: Rohit hits the back of length delivery back to bowler for no run.
Ball 2: Rohit rocks back and punches the full delivery outside off over extra cover for FOUR.
Ball 1: Kohli hits towards sweeper cover for a single.
India 51-1 after 8 overs; Rohit Sharma 23(24); Virat Kohli 22(19)
Adil Rashid continues and concedes three runs off the first 4 deliveries.
Only 5 runs came in Rashid's second over.
India 46-1 after 7 overs; Rohit Sharma 21(21); Virat Kohli 19(16)
Liam Livingstone is introduced into the attack..
Ball 6: DOT
Ball 5: Kohli uses his wrists to perfection and collects a single towards mid-wicket for a single.
Ball 4: Kohli hits, powerfully, towards extra cover. He takes a couple of runs as Moeen Ali fumbles.
Ball 3: Kohli hammers the full delivery down the ground for FOUR.
Ball 2: Rohit drives the ball on the stumps down the ground for a single.
Ball 1: DOT
India 38-1 after 6 overs; Rohit Sharma 20(18); Virat Kohli 12(13)
Adil Rashid is introduced into the attack...
Ball 6: A single for Rohit down the ground.
Ball 5: Kohli hits the flatter trajectory ball to long-off for a single.
Ball 4: Rohit drives down the ground for a single.
Ball 3: Rohit hits towards extra cover for no run.
Ball 2: A flighted delivery on off stump, Rohit sweeps it straight to backward point for no run.
Ball 1: Rohit sweeps the ball on the stumps over backward square leg fielder for FOUR.
India 31-1 after 5 overs; Rohit Sharma 14(13); Virat Kohli 11(12)
Sam Curran returns...
Ball 6: DOT
Ball 5: DOT
Ball 4: Brooks makes a brilliant save at backward point, denies Rohit his third consecutive bounday.
Ball 3: Rohit moves wide of leg stump and smashes the short delivery towards mid-wicket for FOUR.
Ball 2: Rohit chips the ball on the pads over short mid-wicket for FOUR.
Ball 1: Kohli collects a single.
India 21-1 after 4 overs; Rohit Sharma 5(10); Virat Kohli 10 (9)
Woakes continues
Ball 6: Rohit tries to hit the ball on the pads over short fine leg but manages to only hit from the bottom of the bat.
Ball 5: Kohli works towards square leg for a single.
Ball 5: WIDE
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: Rohit pushes gently to mid-on for a single.
Ball 2: Kohli tucks the next towards leg side for a single.
Ball 1: A full delivery outside off, Kohli plays an extra cover drive on the up and sends it into the extra cover stands for a SIX.
India 11-1 after 3 overs; Rohit Sharma 4 (8); Virat Kohli 2 (5)
Sam Curran, left-arm fast medium, comes into the attack
Ball 6: DOT
Ball 5: DOT
Ball 4: DOT
Ball 3: Kohli collects a single.
Ball 2: Kohli edges to first slip but the ball falls short of the fielder.
Ball 1: Curran beats Kohli outside off.
India 10-1 after 2 overs; Rohit Sharma 4 (5); Virat Kohli 1 (2)
Chris Woakes shares the new ball with Stokes...
Ball 6: Kohli opens his account and collects a single.
Ball 5: Virat Kohli arrives at the crease and punches the ball on the stumps towards mid-on for no run.
Ball 4: Woakes generates extra bounce and Rahul edges it to keeper, GONE. England draw the first blood.
Ball 3: Another delivery on the pads, Rohit works on the square leg for a single
Ball 2: Rohit flicks the ball on the pads towards deep square leg for a couple of runs.
Ball 1: Rohit tucks towards mid-on for no run.
India 6-0 after 1 over; Rohit Sharma 1 (2); KL Rahul 5 (4)
Rahul and Rohit are at the crease. Rahul takes the strike. Stokes opens the attack.
Ball 6: DOT again.
Ball 5: Stokes beats Rahul outside off, DOT
Ball 4: Rohit drives wide of mid-off fielder for a single.
Ball 3: A full and wide delivery, Rohit goes for a full-fledged drive but misses it completely.
Ball 2: Rahul punches towards sweeper cover for a single.
Ball 1: A short and wide delivery, Rahu; slices it through short third man for FOUR
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
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.
TOSS TIME!!
Jos Buttler wins the toss and elects to field first.
As per the broadcaster's visuals, Pant is doing the wicket-keeping drills ahead of the toss. Karthik seen helping Pant.
The coin flip between Rohit Sharma and Jos Buttler at 1 PM IST. Stay tuned for live updates
In a head-to-head comparison, India have an upper hand with 12 wins in 22 matches against England.
In T20 World Cup, the Men In Blue too have an upper hand with 2 wins in three matches against the Three Lions.
India 12 - England 10. India also hold a 2-1 record over England in T20 World Cups and won by a similar margin in the series contested by these sides in July this year.
England: Jos Buttler (captain, wk), Ben Stokes, Alex Hales, Harry Brook, Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Sam Curran, Mark Wood, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Tymal Mills, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Chris Woakes, David Willey.
The par score in Adelaide would be 170 and Rohit along with either Karthik or Pant will have to stand up and be counted as 'law of averages' could catch up with Suryakumar (225 runs) or Kohli (246 runs) sooner than later.
The Indian team won four games in the Super 12 stage but what has looked a bit unsettling is not being able to get optimum performance from Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant looking confused about whether to attack or defend while batting at No. 5.
With shorter side boundaries and the presence or Rashid, whose leg break would turn into a left hander, Pant looks a more plausible choice but whether Rahul Dravid's fascination for a designated finisher continues will be interesting to see.
Similarly Axar Patel (3 wickets at an economy rate of 9.10) hasn't set the stage on fire but the Indian team management hasn't not shown enough courage to play Yuzvendra Chahal so far.
Chahal's presence will be important since the match will be played on one of the used tracks and spin will play an important role in the outcome of the game.
History is a bit against India when it comes to results at the business end of the ICC events.
Post 2013, Indian teams have struggled to cross the final two hurdles on multiple occasions -- 2014 T20 World Cup final, 2016 T20 World Cup semifinals, 2017 Champions Trophy final and 2019 ODI World Cup semifinal.
Even though Rohit Sharma played in all those games, he wasn't leading the side back then and hence doesn't carry any baggage of disappointment as he enters the most critical phase of his full time captaincy.
India full squad:RohitSharma (captain), KL Rahul, ViratKohli, SuryakumarYadav, DineshKarthik (wk), HardikPandya, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, BhuvneshwarKumar, ArshdeepSingh, MohammedShami, DeepakHooda, Harshal Patel, Rishabh Pant (wk), YuzvendraChahal
Only two steps away from the ultimate glory, India cannot afford to put a foot wrong as they square off against a formidable England on a tricky Adelaide Oval track in the T20 World Cup semifinal.
While India have had better performances in the group stage compared to England, a high stakes, 'winner takes it all' contest like this always starts on an even keel.
England's premier all-rounder Ben Stokes has already admitted that they have not play their best cricket and the Indian team needs to ensure that a Jos Buttler and Stokes himself don't choose the semifinal to bring their A game to the fore.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of India vs England second semifinal from Adelaide Oval. With the final spot up for grabs, both teams will look to put forward their A-game today.
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