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India maintained their unbeaten streak at the 2023 World Cup with a 100-run victory in a low-scoring contest against holders England, who are facing a premature exit following their fifth defeat in six group matches on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Rohit Sharma saved India\u2019s blushes with a captain\u2019s knock of 87 in what initially appeared a below-par total of 229-9 on a tricky surface at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.<\/p>\n
Put into bat, the hosts slumped to 40-3 in the 12th over before Rohit forged a 91-run partnership with KL Rahul (39) to arrest their slide.<\/p>\n
Suryakumar Yadav contributed a breezy 49 down the order and India\u2019s tailenders scored some useful runs towards the end to take them past the 225-mark.<\/p>\n
England were reduced to 52-5 inside 16 overs in a remarkable batting capitulation and were eventually bundled out for 129 in inside 35 overs with Mohammed Shami claiming 4-22 for India.<\/p>\n
Liam Livingstone\u2019s 27 was the top score in England\u2019s sorry-looking scorecard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this was a game where we showed a lot of character,\u201d Rohit said after India\u2019s sixth successive win in the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the experienced players stood up at the right time and won us the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holders England went into the match as the bottom-placed team with only mathematical chances of making the semi-finals after just one win in their previous five group matches.<\/p>\n
In India, they faced the tournament\u2019s only unbeaten side looking unstoppable in their home conditions.<\/p>\n
Jos Buttler elected to field after winning the toss and had reasons to feel vindicated as India slumped to 40-3 in the 12th over.<\/p>\n
David Willey (3-45) began with a maiden and sent groans across the stadium in the seventh over when he dismissed Virat Kohli for a nine-ball duck.<\/p>\n
The early setbacks forced Rohit to shelve his natural strokeplay and he combined with Rahul to arrest their slide.<\/p>\n
India crawled to the 100-mark at the halfway stage of their innings but still had plenty of overs as well as considerable batting firepower left to make up for the loss.<\/p>\n
Willey dismissed Rahul and Adil Rashid sent back Rohit to snuff out those hopes but Suryakumar\u2019s cheeky knock took India past 200.<\/p>\n
England began briskly but were soon jolted out of any complacence after Jasprit Bumrah (3-32) dismissed Dawid Malan and Joe Root with successive deliveries in the fifth over of the innings.<\/p>\n
Like Root, Ben Stokes could not open his account either and had his stumps wrecked by Shami as England\u2019s start proved worse than that of their opponents.<\/p>\n
Kohli dropped Jonny Bairstow in the slip but the batter dragged a delivery from Shami on to his stumps to depart with England reeling at 39-4 in the 10th over.<\/p>\n
Buttler\u2019s dismissal was emblematic of England\u2019s shambolic batting in the match.<\/p>\n
The England captain was utterly deceived by a Kuldeep Yadav (2-24) delivery that pitched outside off-stump, turned sharply and sneaked through the yawning bat-pad gap to hit the middle stump.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery disappointing,\u201d Buttler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the halfway stage chasing 230 we fancied ourselves. But it\u2019s the same old story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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