England captain Jos Buttler has gained the toss and elected to subject of their essential ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup conflict with hosts India in Lucknow on Sunday.

KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma had added 91 runs for the fourth wicket by the 30-over mark in opposition to England in Lucknow.

Match 29: India 131/3 (30 overs) v England 

After being despatched into bat, an unchanged India took off in the back of Rohit Sharma’s aggressive cost. He hit two sixes and a 4 as India took 18 off David Willey’s second over. 

However, England struck again shortly sufficient, with Chris Woakes getting one to nip again in and beating Shubman Gill’s defences within the fourth over. 

One introduced two, as Virat Kohli went for an enormous shot early in his innings, could not time the ball, and ended up giving a catch to Ben Stokes at mid-off.

Both Woakes and Willey obtained the perfect out of the brand new ball, getting it to jag round and beating the bat on a number of events. The scoring alternatives decreased for the India batters, and England yielded one other wicket after build up sufficient stress.

Plenty of fuller deliveries from Chris Woakes troubled Shreyas Iyer (4), and the batter sought a launch when he noticed one pitched barely shorter. However, all of the Mumbai batter may discover was the mid-on fielder.

KL Rahul arrived on the wicket and helped stabilise the innings together with Rohit. After seeing by a tricky section, the duo picked tempo between the overs 21-30 and added 58 runs for India. 

Rohit, particularly, took cost after reaching his half-century. He hit 4 fours and a six in his subsequent 20 balls. 

India are undefeated after 5 matches and surging towards the semi-finals, whereas England are solely off the underside of the standings on internet run charge and all however out of rivalry on the pointy finish of the event.

India have largely seemed irrepressible as they brushed apart every of their 5 opponents up to now however will nonetheless be cautious of a defending champion now nicely and really on the ropes.

A well-balanced assault has been a key to India’s vivid begin with 46 of a doable 50 batters dismissed to this point, together with the total allotment in opposition to Australia, Pakistan and New Zealand.

That will rightly concern an England outfit that has didn’t go 200 of their two outings since scoring 215 to fall 69 runs quick within the loss to Afghanistan that in hindsight uncovered a spread of deficiencies.

India XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.

England XI: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (c) (wk), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood.