England Still In Tournament As They Beat India By 31 Runs, Pakistan’s Qualification Doubtful

Mumbai: ICC World Cup is at most thrilling period, where English batsman needs to win against India today if they lose it would be the end of their journey in an ongoing ICC tournament.

Meanwhile, India is at the second position in the points table they need just one more point to confirm there spot in Semis.

On the other hand, teams like Pakistan and Bangladesh are fully dependent on men in blue today if they successfully defeat England there will be an outside chance to make a comeback in the tournament.

Winning the toss England decided to bat first looking at the pitch it will help to batsmen and there is nothing much for bowlers especially for spinners in the team.

Both the teams have changed in their particular teams were Rishabh Pant will make his debut for India will replace Vijay Shankar at number 3. Meanwhile, Jason Toy makes his come back for England side.

England was in full role as they had to win this match at any cost. They started very well. Both opening pair had 150+ runs partnership due to Jason Roy England was looking good India got their first wicket at the score of 160 runs it was Kuldeep Yadav who broke the partnership and it was fabulous catch by substitute fielder Ravinder Jadeja.

England batsmen were hitting the ball very well, it was clear that they were looking for 350 + target but it was fabulous came back by Indian bowlers.

Mohammed Shami took five wickets hall, meanwhile, Bairstow brought his first century of the tournament but lost his wicket soon. Ben Stokes played an important inning of 79 runs due to which England scored a huge total of 337 runs.

Chasing the target it was a slow start by the Indian side as they lost their first wicket in the third over itself it was soft dismissal of KL Rahul. Later it was captain and vice-captain who played well.

Rohit Sharma took his time to hit the ball, whereas Virat Kohli continued his form and became the first captain to hit five consecutive 50s but again he failed to convert it into big score lost his wicket scoring 62 runs to Plunkett.

Meantime, it was another century by hitman Rohit Sharma who scored 102 runs and became 3rd Indian batsman to score 3 centuries in a World Cup. But again England bowlers were successful in taking wickets and dismissed Rohit.

It was a small cameo by debutante Rishabh Pant who scored 32 runs but unable to hit more runs for his side.

Hardik Pandya was looking good scored 45 runs but missed his half-century as Plunkett was successful to dismiss him.

Notably, Pandya missed his half-century for the third consecutive time.

It was a brilliant performance by England in the high-pressure game and defeated India by 31 runs.

Notably, this was the first defeat for team India in ICC World Cup 2019.

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