Jos Buttler in IND vs ENG Semi Final: England captain Jos Buttler credited the Indian team for the win and said that they performed better than us and deserved the win. Team India has booked a place in the title match by defeating the defending champions England by 68 runs in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup. Batting first, India set the English team a target of 172 runs, against which the entire English team was bundled out for 103 runs in 16.4 overs. Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav were the heroes of India’s victory along with captain Rohit Sharma.
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Jos Buttler said after the match, “India definitely did better than us. We let them score 20-25 runs more. It was a challenging surface on which they played well. They deserved better than us.” 2022 was a very different situation. India played a very good game of cricket.
The par score on the Guyana pitch was 145-150 runs, when Team India crossed this score, the pressure on England was evident. Under this pressure, the entire English team looked buried during the run chase. This is the reason why no batsman of the team could score more than 25 runs.
Buttler added, “Their scores were better than average. I don’t think the toss was the difference between the teams. They have some great spinners. Two of our players (Rashid and Livingstone) bowled well. Looking back, the spin that Playing the way Moeen should have bowled in that innings, his score was better than average and he was always chasing a difficult target with a brilliant bowling attack.
Talking about his team’s performance during the tournament, the captain said, “Really proud of everyone’s effort to get here after everything that happened throughout the tournament. You can only play with what’s in front of you.” competition, we stuck together well as a group, played some really good cricket in some stretches, but fell behind when it mattered most.