In the ICC Men T20 World Cup 2022 super 12 matches on October 26, at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Ireland defeated England by five runs (D/L method)
After winning the toss in the game that was hampered by weather, England bowled out Ireland for 15.7. In the chase they flattered, reaching 105/5 in 14.3 overs. Ireland was declared the winner since they were ahead on the DLS score and no further play was possible due to the weather.
England, who were attempting to chase down 158, got off to a terrible start, losing their captain Jos Buttler for a two-ball duck. Josh Little’s outside off stump was the target of the aggressive opener, who only succeeded in edging the ball to the keeper.
Alex Hales also passed away for a pittance of seven. He skied a short ball from Little to short fine leg in an effort to pull.
Ben Stokes (six) was struck out by a jaffa from Fionn Hand in the final over of the powerplay, dealing a devastating blow to England.
The right-arm pacer managed to clean up the batter through the gate with a length delivery that jagged back sharply. On 37/3, England’s dreadful powerplay came to an end.
England’s innings were led by Dawid Malan from one end, but Ireland kept making significant contributions. In the 11th over, bowled by George Dockrell, the fielding side missed catches on two consecutive balls.
On the other hand, the left-arm spinner struck in the same over that Harry Brook (18) misplayed a short ball to deep midwicket.
Malan also died for 35 off 37 balls, giving Ireland control of the game. The left-hander was caught at the deep third man after making a complete mess of an attempt to pull off Barry McCarthy.
With only 12 balls, Moeen Ali quickly reached 24* as he took on the Ireland bowling. Then the weather made its decision, and England suffered as a result of their subpar batting performance.
In a decisive victory over New Zealand at the Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday, clinical England saved their Twenty20 World Cup campaign.
However, with one set of games remaining, England and its opponents, who were both nearly likely to be eliminated had they lost, moved into the top two spots in Group 1.
The T20 World Cup semi-finals are only accessible to the top two.
It puts a lot of pressure on the hosts and reigning champions, Australia, who must now defeat Afghanistan in their final game while hoping that either England or New Zealand falters.
Jos Buttler, the captain of England, who helped the team reach 179-6 after scoring 73 off 47 balls, stated, “We had a horrible performance (in losing to Ireland), but there’s a lot of confidence in the group.” Alex Hales also reached the fifty-run mark.
We had set a goal of 160-165, but we were able to surpass it; tonight, we gave it everything.
As England began to demonstrate why they were one of the tournament favorites, the captain’s performance with the bat was important. Now it’s up to them to decide their own fate.
When Chris Woakes’ ball to New Zealand’s opener Devon Conway was leg-glanced, Jos Buttler made a breathtaking diving catch to give England the advantage in the match. After five overs, New Zealand had a score of 28-2 when Finn Allen caught a slower ball from Sam Curran and sent it to Ben Stokes at deep mid-wicket.
When Moeen Ali dropped the in-form Glenn Phillips when he was on 15, New Zealand was only 64-2 and the Black Caps were fighting against a tight bowling attack, the tide turned decisively in their favor.
Ali managed to avoid catching Phillips’ attempted pull shot, which he skied straight to him.
The English were punished by Phillips, who slammed a century against Sri Lanka in New Zealand’s most recent game, as he sped to his half-century off only 25 balls.
Buttler was switching up his attack and used seven different bowlers in an effort to make a breakthrough. When Black Caps captain Kane Williamson (40), who was his sixth pick, managed to squeeze a Stokes delivery to Adil Rashid at short third, it finally paid off.
James Neesham came and went for a six-pointer, but Phillips continued to slam the England attack all over the Gabba.
On Friday, the day the host nation plays Afghanistan, which has already been eliminated, New Zealand plays Ireland. With a win, New Zealand might have guaranteed a berth in the semifinals.
The final group match pits England against the Asian champions, Sri Lanka, on Saturday.
APK vs. ENG highlights from the T20 World Cup Final: On Sunday, England and Pakistan played in the tournament’s championship game. Ben Stokes helped England defeat Pakistan by 138 runs with an undefeated 52 off 49 balls.
England defeated Pakistan by five wickets to win the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday, becoming the first team to win both the 50-over and 20-over championships in the history of the game thanks in large part to the contributions of Ben Stokes and Sam Curran.
With player-of-the-match Curran taking 3-12 and Adil Rashid contributing 2-22, Jos Buttler’s team limited Pakistan to 137/8 in front of a partisan 80,462 spectators at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground.
England’s Sam Curran displays his trophies after the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 Final between Pakistan and England at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne on November 13, 2022. (Photo by Surjeet YADAV / AFP)
England reached 138/5 with six balls remaining because of the experience and cool heads of Stokes (52 not out) and Moeen Ali (19). Receive real-time updates on the Pakistan vs. England T20 World Cup final cricket match.
After 2010, this is England’s second T20 World Cup victory. With the ball, England played outstandingly, limiting Pakistan to 137/8. The English batting lineup is led by Sam Curran (3/12). England was down to 45/3 in the 138-point chase before the powerplay. But Stokes (52*) once again produced in a crucial game to lead his team to victory.
In the opening over of the 138-run chase, England’s opener Alex Hales was out for just one run when Shaheen Afridi’s delivery crashed through his wickets. Alongside captain Jos Buttler was Phil Salt. Young pacer Naseem Shah was assaulted by the pair, who ran him over for three fours with the leader hitting two.
Pakistan was kept in check by England’s bowlers, who took two wickets in 10 overs and only gave up 68 runs. Babar Azam was out for 32 off 28 in the 11th over of the play, another example of Rashid’s sticking.
After being reintroduced into the attack, Stokes proved to everyone why he is so well-known by bowling Iftikhar Ahmed out for a 6-ball duck.
Then Sam Curran dealt Pakistan another setback as he struck out well-positioned and aggressive batsman Masood for 38 runs off 28 balls. When Woakes took the easiest of catches in the 17th over, Chris Jordan joined the fun and dismissed Shadab.
As he removed Mohammad Nawaz, Curran once more shook the Pakistani batting order. Jordan bowled Mohammad Wasim Jr. out for four runs off eight deliveries in the tenth over of the innings, allowing England to hold Pakistan to 137/8 in the twenty-over game.
Clive Madande struck a four off the final ball of a rain-interrupted one-day international thriller in Harare on Wednesday to give Zimbabwe a three-wicket victory over Ireland.
The home side needed 13 runs from their last over under the DLS system to win and, boosted by a six from Ryan Burl, reduced the target to four runs with one Graham Hume delivery left.
By scooping the ball over deep midwicket, wicketkeeper Madande joined Burl (59) and Sikandar Raza (43) as stars of a brave fightback by Zimbabwe after Ireland posted 288-4 in 50 overs.
Zimbabwe scored 214-7 in reply as a three-match ODI series began, following a 2-1 win by the hosts in a three-match Twenty20 series.
Burl was run out seeking a second run off the second ball of the final over and Raza was caught earlier having miscued an attempted shot over long on.
Remarks about Madande
“I am ecstatic about Madande,” said Burl. “When batting with him, I kept telling him to be the guy that is going to be there until the end, and win it for your country.
“As to my good form, there is no secret,” he said of a knock that included two sixes and six fours. “I’m just concentrating on putting my head down and doing the right things.”
Harare-born former England Test batsman Gary Ballance contributed 23 to the Zimbabwe total before being caught at short third man attempting a pull shot off a back-of-a-length ball.
Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie struck 121 before retiring hurt.
Zimbabwe won the toss, opted to field and, initially, the decision paid off as openers Paul Stirling (13) and Stephen Doheny (3) were dismissed with 25 runs on the board.
The match then underwent a dramatic change as Balbirnie and Harry Tector (101 not out) put on 212 for the third wicket — 16 runs short of the Irish record.
Balbirnie faced 137 balls and hit three sixes and 13 fours before top-edging a Brad Evans beamer into the grill of his helmet, forcing him to quit.
The captain was able to walk off the field and an Irish official, who requested anonymity, said the centurion “was not seriously injured and would be okay”.
“We attach no blame to him (Evans). It was not a deliberate act — just a ball that was not ideally delivered. These things happen in cricket.”
Tector reached his century with two runs from a cover drive off the fourth ball of the final over. His total included one six and eight fours off 109 deliveries.
“Hey, what have we got to do to win a game,” said Tector. “It was a fantastic game. Sikandar and Ryan — the way they played took the game away from us.”
Fast medium pacer Victor Nyauchi was the most successful of the Zimbabwe bowlers, taking two wickets for 65 runs.
The ODI series continues on Saturday and concludes on Monday.
Virat Kohli was lost for words as his unbeaten 82 took India to a stunning last-ball win against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup on Sunday after Sri Lanka had earlier strolled to a nine-wicket victory over Ireland.
India looked down and out at 45-4 halfway through their pursuit of arch-rival Pakistan’s 159-8 with 90,000 spectators working themselves into a frenzy in an incredible atmosphere at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
But Kohli, with 82 off 53 balls and Hardik Pandya, who scored 40 off 37, launched an incredible fightback with a century stand.
India still needed 60 off the last five overs, which was reduced to an unlikely 28 with only eight balls remaining.
Kohli then bludgeoned two towering sixes off Haris Rauf to leave India needing 16 off the final over from a nervous Mohammad Nawaz, who peppered it with wides and no-balls to help them to their target.
“It’s a surreal atmosphere, I have no words, no idea how that happened,” said Kohli, back to his rampant best after a lean couple of years.
“I am really lost for words. Hardik believed we can do it, if we stayed till the end.”
India captain Rohit Sharma, who was out for just four, was full of praise for Kohli and Pandya’s stand and admitted he had thought at one stage: “We were in no position to win this.”
“Those two guys are experienced. Staying calm and taking the game deep was very critical. Good for our confidence,” he said.
A deflated Pakistan captain Babar Azam paid tribute to Kohli.
“Our bowlers bowled really well. We had a chance, we tried to stick to our plans. But credit to Virat Kohli.”
Few sporting rivalries match the passion of India-Pakistan and the atmosphere, already electric, hit fever pitch when Pakistan’s openers were dismissed cheaply after being sent into bat, with Azam out lbw for a golden duck to Arshdeep Singh.
There was no let-up in the ear-splitting noise right to the breathless final over which included Kohli hitting a six off a no-ball, then running three byes after being bowled off a free hit.
A wide and some scrambled runs left Kohli at the non-striker’s end with two needed off two balls.
Dinesh Karthik was then stumped down the leg side as he stumbled out of his ground leaving Ravi Ashwin needing two off the final delivery.
‘Spectacular!’
“As good a game as I can remember seeing in T20 cricket .. Both teams bring so much .. 90 thousand at the G .. UNBELIEVABLE,” tweeted former England captain Michael Vaughan.
India betting legend Sachin Tendulkar wrote on social media: “@imVkohli, it was undoubtedly the best innings of your life. It was a treat to watch you play, the six off the back foot in the 19th over against Rauf over long on was spectacular!”
Earlier in Hobart, disciplined bowling and an unbeaten half-century by Kusal Mendis powered Sri Lanka to a nine-wicket hammering of Ireland in their opening Super 12 match.
Asian champions Sri Lanka restricted Ireland to 128-8 which they strolled past with five overs to spare.
“Really happy the way we played. That is the kind of cricket we want to play,” skipper Dasun Shanaka said.
Mendis, a wicketkeeper-batsman, smashed five fours and three sixes in an unbeaten stand with Charith Asalanka, who made 31, to hand Sri Lanka two points with a good net run-rate.
The island nation have turned around their fortunes after being stunned by Namibia in their first-round opener. They bounced back to advance to the Super 12.
India next face the Netherlands on Thursday in Sydney, while Pakistan will need to bounce back on the same day against Zimbabwe in Perth.
Ireland face the in-form England next in Melbourne on Wednesday, while Sri Lanka will take on Australia, who lost their opening match to New Zealand, in Perth on Tuesday.
A whirlwind unbeaten 30 by Ryan Burl lifted Zimbabwe to a 2-1 Twenty20 series victory over Ireland in Harare on Sunday.
Ireland were put in to bat and made 141-9 with Harry Tector top scoring on 47 as they sought to buck a trend in this series of the side fielding first winning.
Captain Craig Ervine scored 54 to lift Zimbabwe to 116-5 with three overs remaining and Burl effectively finished the match off, hammering two sixes and three fours off 11 deliveries.
Luke Jongwe hit the last ball of the penultimate over for four to take Zimbabwe to 144-6, and a four-wicket triumph.
It was a dramatic end to a series that began with a five-wicket win for Zimbabwe on Thursday, followed by a six-wicket victory for the tourists two days later.
“It’s a great place to be at the moment, winning a series against Ireland with some of your lesser experienced players. It’s very exciting for the future,” said Ervine.
“The guys are confident ahead of the one-day international series (starting on Wednesday. We might get Sikandar Raza and Gary Ballance back.”
Prolific run getter Raza has been playing franchise cricket in Bangladesh while former England batter Ballance missed the last two T20 internationals due to mild concussion.
“It’s exciting, it’s always good to have that winning momentum and we will try hard to keep that up.”
Ireland skipper Andy Balbirnie said: “We came here to win the series, so it’s disappointing that we haven’t.”
After the cheap loss of opener Tadiwanashe Marumani (5), Ervine took charge with a knock that included six fours.
His innings ended when he was caught by Curtis Campher attempting a cover drive off a short-pitched ball from Mark Adair.
Spinner Ben White (2-26) and fast medium pacer Barry McCarthy (2-32) were the most successful Irish bowlers.
Batting at No. 4, Tector rescued the tourists, who had slumped to 19-3 having faced just 23 deliveries.
He put on 70 runs before being separated from Campher, the second highest Irish scorer with 27.
Tector departed next, adding a further six runs before his middle stump was uprooted by off-spinner Wesley Madhevere, the most successful Zimbabwe bowler with two wickets for eight runs.
Mark Adair was the only lower-order Irish batsman to reach double figures with his 14 off 10 balls contributing to a 31-run seventh-wicket stand.
