ENG vs NZ T20 World Cup Super 8 Yesterday Match Result: Who won yesterday’s match in the England vs New Zealand T20 World Cup Super 8 match, know the full result, important moments and highlights of the match here.
ENG vs NZ T20 World Cup Super 8 Match Result: In the 9th Super-8 match of the T-20 World Cup, England defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. With this victory, Pakistan’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals are still alive. In this match played at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Friday 27 February, New Zealand won the toss and batted first and scored 159 runs for 7 wickets. In reply, England won the match by achieving the target of 160 with three balls remaining.
Despite good start, Kiwis could not score big
The New Zealand team had a good start and scored 54 runs in the powerplay without losing any wicket. However, the team lost 4 wickets quickly in the middle overs. 3 wickets also fell in the death overs, due to which the Kiwi team missed out on reaching a big score. Glenn Phillips scored the highest score of 39 runs, while Tim Sheffert contributed 35 runs. In bowling for England, Adil Rashid, Will Jacques and Rehan Ahmed got 2-2 wickets. Liam Dawson took one wicket.
Match winning partnership of Will Jacques and Rehan Ahmed
Chasing the target of 160 runs, England achieved the target with 6 wickets in 19.3 overs. Will Jacques was named player of the match. He played an important inning of 32 runs unbeaten on 18 balls. Along with him, Rehan Ahmed scored unbeaten 19 runs with the help of 2 sixes in 7 balls. Both of them made a partnership of 44 runs in just 16 balls for the 7th wicket, which took England to the threshold of victory. Earlier, Sam Curran and Tom Benton added 42 runs in 35 balls for the 5th wicket. At the same time, Harry Brook and Jacob Bethel made an important partnership of 48 runs in 35 balls for the third wicket.
Pakistan’s semi-final hopes intact
After this victory of England, Pakistan’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals still remain. Now Pakistan will have to win against Sri Lanka on 28th February with a good run rate. If Pakistan wins this match, then both it and New Zealand will have 3 points each. In such a situation, the decision will be based on net run rate.