England beat New Zealand by four wickets. England faced New Zealand in a Group 2 Super 8 clash at the R Premedasa Stadium, Colombo. It was a must-win game for the Kiwis to qualify for the semi-final. However, they failed to capitalise on their chances of qualifying for the next round.
New Zealand will have to wait for Sri Lanka to beat Pakistan. Or even hope that the Men in Green do not beat Sri Lanka by a big margin to surpass their net run rate (NRR). However, if Pakistan beats Sri Lanka.
In that situation, both New Zealand and Pakistan will finish on three points. The team with the better net run rate will advance. The Kiwis have not lost by a big margin of runs or wickets as they took the game deep.
For Pakistan, they have to beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin. Only then can Pakistan surpass New Zealand's net run rate of +1.390. It is going to be an exciting encounter on Saturday as we go down to the final-day performances, and the battle to the semi-finals is shaping up to be exciting.
If Pakistan wins the toss and elects to bat first and scores 160, they need to win by 64+ runs. Later, if Sri Lanka scores 160, Salman Ali Agha's side needs to win with 40+ balls remaining, which means they have to win the chase of a target of 160 in just 13 overs.
New Zealand's over-reliance on spin let them down
Coming to the match, Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bat first. After a very good first over from Jofra Archer, the speedster bowled a maiden. The Black Caps openers, Finn Allen andTim Seifert, started to strike at a good pace from both ends. The former was the aggressor between the two. Seifert, who was struggling a bit, went back in the pavilion after scoring 35 off 25 balls.
Allen was later dismissed on the score of 29 off 19 balls and fell in Will Jacks’ over. After two sudden wickets, Glenn Phillips and Rachin Ravindra then stitched a small partnership. Rachin was seen struggling against the spin and was back after scoring just 11 runs.
Phillips played a knock of 39 off 28 balls, hitting four boundaries and one six. Later on, small contributions from Mark Chapman and Cole McConchie, 15 off 9, and the latter scored 14 off 12, as they closed to a defendable total of 160 runs.
Coming out to chase England losing Phil Salt in the very first over for the score of two runs, and Jos Buttler followed in the next over as the former England captain failed to open his account, and this was his fifth consecutive single-digit score in the competition.
Will Jacks be the saviour for England
Then Harry Brook and Jacob Bethell settled in between for some time from 2/2, they stitched a partnership of 48 runs before the England captain, Harry Brook, was dismissed by Glenn Phillips on the score of 26 off 24 balls. Bethell followed his captain as they were down to 58/4 with Phillips taking a brilliant catch to dismiss the Southpaw.
Later on, Sam Curran, Tom Banton, and Will Jacks gave valuable contributions to the side. Curran scored 24 off 22, and Banton, who was looking set, got out playinga cheap shot on the score of 33 off 24 balls. With 21 needed from the last two overs, Jacks and Rehan Ahmed made the run chase look easy, as they finished with three balls to spare.
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