India vs England LIVE: T20 World Cup result after Jos Buttler and Alex Hales inspire record chase
England marched into the final with a 10-wicket win in Adelaide
England are into the T20 World Cup final after producing a staggering performance to beat India in the semi-final in Adelaide.
The absences of injured duo Mark Wood and Dawid Malan - replaced by Chris Jordan and Phil Salt - might have unsettled England but they were able to restrict India to 168 after opting to field first, despite a half-century for Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya’s exceptional 63 off 33 deliveries.
But it proved to be nowhere near enough as captain Jos Buttler (80*) and partner Alex Hales (86*) put on a fireworks show with the bat in a remarkable unbeaten opening stand as England marched into the final with a 10-wicket win over the pre-tournament favourites.
They will now face Pakistan in Sunday’s showpiece in Melbourne.
Follow the reaction from the T20 World Cup semi-final:
India 121-3, Hardik 24, Kohli 48, Curran 0-22 (3)
Boom! Curran is brought back into the attack and sends down a short, wide delivery that Hardik slap away over point for six! What a shot that is.
Curran goes short again but straightens his line and is pulled away for two. A fuller ball follows and gets driven to Moeen Ali for a dot ball.
Hardik fancies this now but a wide yorker from Curran only brings two before Hardik misses a short ball.
The final is clothed into the legside for one but 11 runs come from the over.
India 110-3, Hardik 13, Kohli 48, Jordan 1-16 (2)
Kohli gives himself room and laces a lovely cover drive across the fast outfield for four more runs!
Hardik and Kohli then run quickly between the wickets to take four singles from the rest of the over. 10 runs come from it.
India are slowly upping the run-rate. England need a wicket to keep them in check. Four overs to go.
India 101-3, Hardik 10, Kohli 43, Jordan 1-8 (1.2)
Close! Virat Kohli survives an LBW review!
Jordan pins him on the pads and goes up with an appeal. The umpires shakes his head and Jos Buttler takes it upstairs. There’s not bat involved but the hawkeye shows the ball just clipping the leg-stump in an umpire’s call decision which means it remains not out.
India 102-3, Hardik 10, Kohli 43, Jordan 1-8 (1.1)
Chris Jordan is brought back. His speciality is bowling at the death but that let him down in the previous T20 World Cup. Can he do something special to restrict India today?
Jordan starts with a wide before Hardik turns him into the legside for one.
India 100-3, Hardik 9, Kohli 43, Livingstone 0-21 (3)
Four runs for Hardik! Livingstone continues and Kohli works him for one. He seems to be the batter who’ll take the innings into the final overs.
Pandya is the one to unleash and he smokes Livingstone back over his head for a boundary!
Livingstone responds well. Two dots and a single follow before Kohli drills a beautiful cover drive past the fielder in the ring and ends the over with another four!
10 runs from the over and 100 up for India!
India 90-3, Hardik 4, Kohli 39, Woakes 1-24 (3)
Woakes digs a short ball in at Hardik Pandya which flies over the batter’s shoulder. The umpires confer and signal a wide for height which perturbs Woakes just a touch.
A few more singles come from the rest of the over with 10 coming from it.
India 86-3, Hardik 3, Kohli 36, Woakes 1-20 (2.3)
Jos Buttler brings Chris Woakes back into the attack and India take him for two singles from the first two deliveries.
A shortish wide ball sees Kohli swipe at the ball but it hits the under edge and flies past Rashid at short third man before running away for four runs!
India 80-3, Hardik 2, Kohli 31, Livingstone 0-11 (2)
England are trying to squeeze India here. Liam Livingstone comes back on and mixes up his pace with ball offspinners and legspinners.
Hardik Pandya struggles to get him away and only three runs come from the over. Seven overs left in the innings. What can India get to?
India 77-3, Hardik 1, Kohli 29, Rashid 1-20 (4)
What an over and what a spell from Adil Rashid. Just three runs and a wicket come from it leaving Rashid with brilliant figures of 1-20 from four overs.
Hardik Pandya is the new batter. India’s hopes of a big score now lie with Virat Kohli.
Wicket! Surya 14 (10) ct. Salt b. Rashid India 75-3 (11.2)
Huge wicket! Adil Rashid floats one up outside the off-stump after Kohli takes a single. Suryakumar Yadav’s eyes light up and he goes for a big one over extra cover again.
He doesn’t get all of the ball though and picks out Phil Salt on the boundary!
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