00:02This was the second ICC men's T20 World Cup semi-final with defending champions
00:06India being put in a bat by England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
00:11Openers Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma had a partnership with 20 runs.
00:17Sharma played an impetuous stroke and was caught for nine to give Will Jax the wicket.
00:21It should be taken. First wicket goes down. Jack striking and mistiming it badly.
00:28Then Samson and Ishan Kishan had a productive stand out in the middle.
00:34They put on 97 runs for the second wicket in just seven and a half overs.
00:44Kishan made 39 of just 18 deliveries.
00:50But Samson had more in store for the men in blue.
00:55Giving him good support was Shivam Dube who chipped in with 43.
01:06But Samson was the top scorer with a swashbuckling 89 of just 42 balls embellished with eight fours and seven
01:12sixes.
01:16He was dismissed by Jax who picked up two for Forte.
01:21Adil Rashid was next best with two for 41 from his four overs.
01:25He has, he's shuffled out of his crease.
01:28Talaq Verma did a cameo by getting 21 of seven balls.
01:33And Hardik Pandya made a brisk 27 of 12 deliveries as India closed on what should have been a daunting
01:38253 for seven.
01:43Set 254 to win, England opened with Paul Salt and Joss Butler.
01:51Salt was scored by Akshar Patel of Hardik Pandya for five.
01:56Then Jaspreet Bumrah took his 500th international wicket as England captain Harry Rook was superbly caught by Patel for seven.
02:04Jacob Bethel joined Joss Butler and the Barbados born south four meant business.
02:11However, Butler was bowled by Varun Chakravarti for 25.
02:18Bethel was unfazed by that and kept smashing the bowlers.
02:21Cleanly struck for six.
02:23It became 95 for four as Akshar Patel castled Tom Banton for 17.
02:28Will Jax join Bethel and the two gave India a reason to be concerned?
02:32Has it got the distance? It just has.
02:35Their stand was worth 77 runs for the fifth wicket.
02:37That is gone miles, absolute miles.
02:40Jax was gone for 35 with Akshar Patel displaying great skill in the deep by tossing the ball back to
02:46Shivam Dubey with the latter doing the rest.
02:48Standing from that man again.
02:51That is a brilliant catch from Akshar Patel.
02:54Bethel was still there and got to his maiden T20 international turn with this hit for the maximum.
02:59Clears the mat and it's a magnificent innings.
03:02Pandya then took his second wicket by getting rid of Sam Curran for 18.
03:08Then came the big one.
03:10Bethel was trying to go for a second one but was run out in the end.
03:13He made a belligerent 105 of just 48 balls.
03:18England were restricted to 246 for seven and lost this humdinger by just seven runs.
03:23Which means India faced New Zealand in Sunday's final.
03:27Vinodawani, T64.
03:28Jax didn't eat the last two sixIAlan Fever.
03:28But what?
03:28The name's Patrick Witt, Digo's got three Lanners and had least for a second one.
03:29Yeah, Europa got two.
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