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| ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group 1, Sydney Cricket Ground |
| Sri Lanka 141-8 (20 overs): Nissanka 67 (45); Wood 3-26 |
| England 144-6 (19.4 overs): Hales 47 (30), Stokes 42* (36) |
| England won by 4 wickets |
| Scorecard. Tables |
England survived a scare to scope the semi-finals of Men's T20 World Cup with a nerve-jangling four-wicket triumph implicit Sri Lanka successful Sydney.
Chasing 142 successful the win-or-bust match, England were cruising astatine 75-0 successful the eighth implicit earlier a illness of 5-54 enactment them successful peril.
They needed 13 from 12 balls with 4 wickets near but Ben Stokes' calm 42 not retired took England to triumph with 2 balls to spare astatine the Sydney Cricket Ground.
It sets up a semi-final successful Adelaide connected Thursday, astir apt against India if they bushed Zimbabwe connected Sunday.
England besides recovered excellently with the shot to restrict Sri Lanka to 141-8 aft they raced to 52-1 aft 5 overs.
Adil Rashid expertly halted the scoring and claimed the important wicket of opener Pathum Nissanka for 67 from 45 balls.
Mark Wood recovered from conceding 17 successful his archetypal implicit to instrumentality 3-26 from three, portion Sam Curran was superb for 1-27 from four.
England's triumph eliminated hosts and defending champions Australia, with England progressing astatine the disbursal of their large rivals and keeping live their bid to triumph the T20 satellite rubric for a 2nd time.
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