India 171 for 7 wickets (Rohit 57, Suryakumar 47, Jordan 3-37) defeated England 103 (Brooke 25, Kuldeep 3-19, Akshar 3-23) by 68 runs
India’s quest for the world title is on the right track. It has been 11 years since he stood on the podium as champion. Now all that separates them from the limelight is a few hours of time and a fiery South African team.
tactical battle in difficult conditions
On a pitch like Guyana’s – where the pace was slow and the bounce low – runs came at a premium across class and behind the wicket. This is because if a bowling unit is disciplined enough to hit good lengths and keep the stumps in play, the batsman cannot force the pace. England planned to close half the outfield for India, but they were not always successful: 69 runs at a strike rate of 192, including eight fours and three sixes, still came where they should not have come.
rohit and risk
Within the powerplay period, Rohit was scoring at a strike rate of 133 and had no control on those shots at all. For reference, his overall career strike rate in T20Is is 141. This is the gap India is looking for. Don’t bat just waiting for a bad ball. Bat as if everything is a bad ball.
Ultimately Rohit compromised. From the fourth over onwards, he was in control of 20 out of 26 balls and he used that control very effectively, scoring 40 including four fours and two sixes. He has accepted that risk is part of T20 cricket and there is no point in avoiding it.
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India’s intentions manifested in the form of their batsmen roaming around the crease. Even a bowler of the caliber of Adil Rashid was finding it difficult to cope and it was a triumph because these were the conditions where as a bowler you only had to hit one length to target the top of the stumps. Was. The England wrist spinner was 2-0-17-0. But he recovered. On the other side of the second rain break, which saw a total of 153 minutes of play lost, Rashid decided not to worry about where Rohit and Suryakumar were placing themselves and instead took a line to the off stump. Started catching. His reward was the wicket of the India captain at 57 off 39. Only eight runs were scored in Rashid’s last two overs.
spin is king
With Rashid in the 14th over, India kept Shivam Dubey in check with the confidence that the fast bowlers would take charge. So Butler found reason to put pressure on Liam Livingstone to do the job, relying on his right hand even in death. The part-time player finished with figures of 4-0-24-0. This was the signal. If he was proving ineffective, Axar, Kuldeep and Ravindra Jadeja would also have failed. Hardik Pandya, along with his spin-bowling all-rounders, were instrumental in helping India reach 171, as he hit three sixes and two fours in the last two overs bowled by Jordan and Archer.
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Guyana is spin-friendly. As soon as the schedule was announced, it was revealed that India would play the semi-finals there. He filled his team with spinners. Three of them got a place in the eleven. Each of them took turns bowling the Jaffa.
Akshar was a game-changer. He came in soon after Jos Buttler hit Arshdeep Singh for three fours in an over and eliminated the biggest threat with his very first ball. The England captain came out to reverse-sweep the left-arm spinner because you couldn’t really sit straight and play the shot in these conditions. When Rohit took this gamble earlier, he got the limit. Buttler only got a toe-end to Pant.
Akshar had a wicket on the first ball of each of his first three overs. Jonny Bairstow once again decided to stay down the leg side and be bowled, and Moeen Ali’s England career potentially ended as he had no idea where the ball had gone, but realized it was where Pant was. Was in hand as they broke the stumps.
Kuldeep’s salvation
England’s score was 49 for 4 when Kuldeep dismissed Sam Curran and then dismissed Harry Brook. England were the team that beat them so hard that they went into the white-ball jungle after the 2019 ODI World Cup. Here, against the batsman coming behind him and with unconventional shots, he did not panic. Kuldeep saw Brook going down to reverse-sweep, so he shifted the line to leg stump, and left him in a tangle, the flat trajectory and fast pace also allowed the ball to escape the swing of the bat and hit the stump. Played a role in the crash. Back.
In a further sign of their impending defeat, England’s last recognized batsman, Livingstone, was run out after a disturbance with the lower order. The defending champions secured their crown, with six of them scoring single-digit scores and none of them going beyond 25.
Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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