Who won yesterday T20 match: Who won England vs Sri Lanka T20 World Cup 2021 match?

Dixit Bhargav | 02/11/2021
Who won yesterday T20 match: Who won England vs Sri Lanka T20 World Cup 2021 match?

England vs Sri Lanka: ICC T20 World Cup 2021 was played between England and Sri Lanka at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium last night.

During the 29th match of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2021 between England and Sri Lanka in Sharjah, England beat Sri Lanka by 26 runs to confirm a semi-finals spot for them. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, won’t be qualifying by any means on the back of losing four matches in a row.

Chasing a 164-run target, Sri Lanka lost their top-order inside the powerplay to add to their woes. It was a 53-run partnership for the sixth wicket between captain Dasun Shanaka (26) and all-rounder Wanidu Hasaranga (34) which handed some advantage to Sri Lanka.

However, both of them getting dismissed within four deliveries brought back England into the contest. Shanka’s departure left his team with needing 34 runs off 16 balls to win the match. A challenge too big for their lower-order batters, Sri Lanka eventually scored 137/10 in 19 overs.

With bowling figures of 3-0-15-2, England all-rounder Moeen Ali was the pick of their bowlers. While spinner Adil Rashid and pacer Chris Jordan also picked a couple of wickets each, Chris Woakes and Liam Livingstone dismissed batter each.

After Shanaka won the toss and invited England in to bat first, vice-captain Jos Buttler’s maiden T20I century powered them to 163-4 in 20 overs. Having scored a match-winning 101* (67) with the help of six four and six sixes, Buttler defied tough batting conditions to become the first English men’s batter to score an international century in each of the three formats.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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