Melbourne: The T20 World Cup 2022 season is now going to enter the semi-finals. New Zealand has become the first semi-finalist team of this season. Whereas, the name of the second team will be known today. This second semifinalist team will be either England or Australia. In fact, in Group 1 in Super-12, the match between England and Sri Lanka will be played in Sydney on Saturday (November 5). England needs to win this match to reach the semi-finals. If England wins, Australia will be out of the tournament. Also, New Zealand and England will reach Super-4 from Group-1.
At the same time, if Sri Lanka wins in this match, then both they and England will be out. In that case, Australia will then reach the semi-finals with New Zealand from Group-1. Let us tell you that at present, New Zealand and Australia have 7-7 points in the points table of Group 1. New Zealand has already reached Super-4 due to the excellent net run rate. While England has only 5 points, the net run rate is better than Australia. In such a situation, if the England team defeats Sri Lanka, then it will get 7 points and it will reach the semi-finals. Whereas the Australian team will be out due to poor net run rate even after 7 points. In such a situation, today's match is going to be very important and thorny competition can be seen in it.
Team England: Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Alex Hales, Harry Brooke, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, David Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Chris Woakes, and Mark Wood. Team Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (Captain), Danushka Gunathilak, Pathum Nisanka, Kusal Mendis (WK), Charit Aslanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa (WK), Dhananjay de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mahish Teeksha, Jeffrey Vandersay, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Kumara, Dushmantha Chamira , Binura Fernando, and Pramod Madushan.
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