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India Qualify Final T20 World Cup: India has defeated England by 7 runs in the semi-finals. With this, Team India has made it to the finals and now it will face New Zealand in the title clash on March 8. Jacob Batchelor played a historic century, but could not take England to the final for the fourth time. India has reached the final for the fourth time in T20 World Cup history.
In this match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, the Indian team batted first and scored 253 runs. In response, the England team was able to score 246 runs and lost the match by 7 runs. A total of 499 runs were scored in this entire match.
2 overs turned the tables
Chasing the record target of 254 runs, England had scored 209 runs in 17 overs. He had to score 45 runs in the last 3 overs. Jacob Batchelor and Sam Curran were set and England’s victory seemed completely possible.
Meanwhile, in the 18th over, Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl the last over of his spell. He gave only 6 runs in this over and from here the trend of the match had turned towards India. Now all eyes were on Hardik Pandya. Hardik came to bowl in the 19th over and Bethel hit a six on the very first ball. England seemed to be in a mood to make a comeback, but Hardik dismissed Sam Curran on the third ball. Now England had to score 32 runs in 9 balls.
Hardik gave only 2 runs in the next 3 balls and only 9 runs came in this over. With Bumrah and Hardik scoring only 15 runs in 2 overs, England was completely out of the match. The rest was done by Shivam Dubey, who dismissed Jacob Bethel on the score of 105 on the very first ball of the 20th over.
Samson-Bumrah shined
In batting, Sanju Samson played an inning of 89 runs for India, apart from him Shivam Dubey also contributed 43 runs and Ishan Kishan also contributed 39 runs. Everyone together took Team India to the score of 253. Jasprit Bumrah proved to be the most effective in bowling, taking one wicket for just 33 runs in 4 overs.