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Defending champion England has kept alive its hopes of reaching the Super 8 of the T20 World Cup. The team defeated Namibia by 41 runs in a rain-affected match on Saturday night. Now England will have to depend on the result of the match between Australia and Scotland. The English team would like the Australian team to defeat Scotland in the last match of Group B.
In this match which started 3 hours late, luck, weather and pitch favoured the English team. It rained intermittently in Antigua and the overs had to be cut short.
Namibia won the toss and chose to bowl. England scored 121 runs for 5 wickets in the stipulated 10 overs, but under the DLS method the target was increased from 122 to 127. In the reply innings, Namibia had a slow start and the team could score only 84 runs for 3 wickets in the stipulated 10 overs. Harry Brook was the player of the match. He played an important innings of 47 runs not out in 20 balls. Match report and analysis ahead…
Scoreboard of England vs Namibia match
Players performance: Harry Brook top scorer, Archer-Jordan got one wicket each
For England, Harry Brook played an innings of 47 runs in 20 balls, while Liam Livingstone remained unbeaten on 13 runs in 4 balls. Moeen Ali scored 16 runs in 6 balls. Jonny Bairstow contributed 31 runs and Phil Salt contributed 11 runs. Jos Butler could not open the account. Ruben Trumpelman got 2 wickets. One wicket came to the share of David Wiese.
For Namibia, Michael van Lingen scored 33 runs, while David Wiese scored 27 runs. Nico Devin retired after scoring 18 runs off 16 balls. Joffra Archer and Chris Jordan got one wicket each.
Heroes of victory in photos
Harry Brook played an unbeaten innings of 47 runs in 20 balls. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes.
Jonny Bairstow scored 31 runs after losing the wicket of Jos Buttler on 2 runs.
3 reasons for Namibia’s defeat
- Bowlers could not create pressure after power play Namibia’s fast bowlers gave England two blows in the powerplay. Jos Buttler and Phil Salt were out and the English team’s score was just 18 runs in 3 overs of the powerplay, but the Namibian bowlers could not maintain the pressure after the powerplay and the English team managed to recover.
- Lack of experience in the last overs, conceded 40 runs in 2 overs Namibia’s bowlers lacked experience. The middle order bowlers could not bowl according to the field and kept conceding runs. The team conceded 40 runs in the last 2 overs. In this way, England managed to score 122 runs.
- did not have luck Luck did not favour the Namibian team during the match as it rained after the 8th over of the English innings and the target was increased from 122 runs to 127 runs via DSL method.
- Slow start in run chase, scored only 18 runs in powerplay Chasing a target of 127 runs, Namibia had a slow start. The team’s openers could score just 18 runs in the 3 overs of the powerplay, which was not enough.
Understand the equations of Group-8 from 2 questions…
1. Is Namibia out of the Super-8 race?
Yes, Namibia is out of the race for Super-8 because the team has managed to win only one match in its 4 matches. In such a situation, the team has only 2 points. In this group, Australia, England and Scotland have more points than Namibia.
2. Has England reached the Super-8 with this win?
Not yet, but the English team has strengthened its claim. Currently, the team has managed to get only 5 points with 2 wins out of 4, Scotland also has the same number of points, but England’s run rate is better. Despite this, the English team will have to wait for the result of the last league match of Group B to reach the Super-8, because Scotland can reach the Super-8 by defeating Australia. In such a situation, the English team will support its rival Australia.
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