Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami breathed fireplace of their magical opening spells after Rohit Sharma’s rearguard 87 on a difficult pitch as India hammered England by 100 runs for his or her six straight win within the World Cup in Lucknow on Sunday. The emphatic win wouldn’t have been potential with out the particular effort of skipper Rohit (87 off 101 balls), whose chic knock stood out as most Indian batters fell by the wayside on a two-paced pitch. Suryakumar Yadav (49) obtained the a lot wanted runs within the loss of life overs to push India to 229 for 9.

Shami (4/22) and Bumrah (3/32) stole the present with the ball for the unstoppable hosts as England batters as soon as towards lower a sorry determine as they slumped to 129 all out in 34.5 overs for his or her fifth loss in six video games.

England are just about out of semifinal competition whereas India, the one unbeaten aspect within the event, are virtually there.

Having put up a beneath par whole, India wanted early wickets to place strain on a struggling England batting unit. Bumrah and Shami hunted in tandem to deal a decisive blow, leaving England at 39 for 4 within the tenth over.

Play and miss was a daily function of the powerplay as each Bumrah and Shami troubled the batters with a Test match size.

Bumrah removed Dawid Malan (16) and Joe Root (0) off successive balls to be on a hat-trick whereas Shami additionally did the identical by castling Jonny Bairstow (14) and Ben Stokes (0), who had a second of mind fade after being crushed multiples time.

Stokes wished to make room to smash Shami out of the park however obtained himself in a nothing place to see his stumps rattled. Bumrah and Shami’s first spell figures learn an envious 5-1-17-2 and 4-0-5-2 respectively.

Kuldeep Yadav made it 52 for 5 by dismissing skipper Jos Buttler (10) with a surprising ball that pitched means outdoors the off stump and turned again sharply to crash the stumps.

Shami got here again into the assault and had Moeen Ali (15) caught behind for his third wicket. At 81 for six, there was no coming again for a clueless England.

There was loads of dew on the park within the night however it wasn’t a problem for the India bowlers.

Earlier, India obtained to bat first for the primary time within the event. It was, nonetheless, solely Rohit and Suryakumar who discovered a solution to bat on a difficult pitch that had a two-paced wicket whereas the others perished making an attempt to pressure the tempo.

The 91-run partnership between Rohit and Okay L Rahul (39 off 58) stabilised the innings after India discovered themselves at 40 for 3 within the twelfth over.

Rohit additionally added 33 priceless runs with Suryakumar however the skipper’s fall led to a clutch of wickets. England had been lastly in a position to put collectively an effort worthy of defending champions, excelling each with the ball and within the discipline.

Chris Woakes (2/33) impressed in his seven-over spell with the brand new ball whereas leggie Adil Rashid (2/35) continued to gather wickets within the center overs. David Willey (3/45) too was efficient.

Application was going to be the important thing on the relaid purple soil pitch right here and Rohit put up a masterclass.

After consuming six dot balls within the first over of the sport bowled by Willey, the India skipper launched the strain by smashing the left-arm pacer for a few sixes and a 4 in his following over.

Rohit used the ft each towards the pacers and spinners to fabricate the boundaries however the likes of Virat Kohli (0 off 9 balls) and Shreyas Iyer (4 off 16) departed whereas trying to find that strain launch shot.

It was a uncommon duck for Kohli, who tried to step out like Rohit solely to mistime his shot to Stokes at mid-off.

Shreyas was despatched again by Woakes off a superbly positioned wanting size ball that obtained massive on the India quantity 4. Clearly, Shreyas must battle the demon in his head to enhance his brief ball play.

Woakes had struggled for accuracy to date in World Cup however delivered on Sunday.

With three batters dismissed for 40, the onus was on Rohit to take the innings ahead and he did with quite a lot of class.

After stepping out the quick bowlers, Rohit displayed his artistry towards the spin trio of Rashid, Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali.

He swept Rashid, reverse-swept Livingstone and got here down the observe to loft Moeen over mid-off for 3 of the ten fours he struck. His pick-up shot off Mark Wood that went all the way in which was additionally chic.

In Hardik Pandya’s absence, India fielded 5 bowlers once more however R Ashwin remained out of the enjoying eleven.

A robust 46000 crowd was in attendance to help the house staff.

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