India are unbeaten in the T20 World Cup 2024, while England have got to the semi-final with some hiccups. Unbeaten India (IND) take on the defending champions England (ENG) in the semi-final 2 of the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024. The two pre-tournament favourites will face each other at the Providence Stadium in Guyana, on Thursday, June 27.
India and England faced each other in the semifinals of the 2022 T20 World Cup. The Three Lions emerged victorious by 10 wickets. However, fans can expect a much closer affair this time, with India being slight favourites considering their recent form.
IND vs ENG Previous Performances
India have won six games so far in the marquee event. Their match against Canada in the first round was abandoned due to a wet outfield. In the Super Eight stage, they notched up comprehensive wins against Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Australia.
Meanwhile, England’s opening fixture ended without a result against Scotland before they suffered a defeat to Australia. Their hopes of progressing beyond the first round were dwindling at one point but they managed to bounce back strongly and make the cut for the Super Eights. Jos Buttler’s men suffered a defeat versus South Africa but wins against West Indies and the USA helped them seal a spot in the semis.
IND vs ENG Head to Head
India 2 – 2 England. India hold a slight 12-11 edge in all T20Is between these sides.
| Matches | 23 | |
| Won by India | 12 | |
| Won by England | 11 | |
| Tied | – | |
| No Result | – | |
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IND vs ENG Pitch Report
Five games have been played at the Providence Stadium in Guyana in the T20 World Cup 2024. The average first innings score is 146. Three games have been won by teams batting first, while two have been won by chasing teams. Chasing can be difficult at this venue as the pitch slows down considerably as the game progresses.
Roger Harper, who is from Guyana, says it’s a clash of titans and hopes to see high quality cricket on Thursday morning. The former West Indies spinner’s wish is likely to be fulfilled as there is very little to differentiate between the sides. The pitch is likely to aid spinners and teams batting first have won three of the five encounters at this venue during this World Cup. Again, very little to cede advantage one way or the other.
Guyana has been a tricky venue for run-scoring throughout the T20 World Cup, with a run rate of 6.20 and an average of 14.67. Though these stats are partially skewed by two heavy defeats for Uganda, they also include serial semi-finalists New Zealand being bowled out for 75 by Afghanistan.
Spin has been a significant weapon at Providence in this tournament, with 27 wickets falling in five previous matches, at a strike-rate of 17.1, which is bettered among the regular venues only by Arnos Vale in St Vincent.
Unlike the first semi-final in Trinidad, there is no reserve day scheduled for this match, with the ICC citing insufficient travel time ahead of Saturday morning’s final in Barbados. However, because the match is slated for a 10.30am start, there are 250 minutes of extra time to play with, meaning a game of some description should be possible barring heavy rain all day. A minimum of 10 overs per side will be required to constitute a match.
If, however, the match is washed out, India will progress to the final after topping their group in the Super Eight.
IND vs ENG Big Picture Adelaide redux
All the best origin stories start from a point of intense trauma. England’s rise from their humiliation in Adelaide at the 2015 ODI World Cup has been well documented – the shedding of reticence and the embracing of risk, the faith in a new generation under the guidance of a handful of wise old heads, and the reaping of rewards that could scarcely have been countenanced while the old mentality held sway – including (albeit briefly) concurrent World Cups of the 50 and 20-over variety.
Who rightly knows where England’s narrative arc has now reached, particularly after that feeble 50-over defence in India last year, but also during a skittish journey through the Caribbean that has been carried, almost exclusively, by their brutal treatment of Associate opponents.
What we do know, however, is that – as they passed through Adelaide in November 2022 en route to that second world title – England’s arc intersected with India’s own nadir. As in 2015, the sense after that ten-wicket drubbing in the T20 World Cup semi-final was of a team so wrapped up in its home-soil dominance that it had lost sight of the need to mitigate for foreign conditions. Something had to change urgently, and to judge by India’s inexorable (but as yet unrewarded) response, it surely has.
Here, though, is an appetizing acid test of India’s new methods. At some stage, it seems inevitable that their decade-long drought at ICC events will have to come to an end, but then again, they probably assumed it was already over after coasting through to last year’s 50-over final in Ahmedabad.
Much as Ben Stokes’ experience in Kolkata in 2016 was a vital factor in England’s subsequent glory, the trauma of that loss to Australia will surely have hardened India’s resolve as they encounter the sharp end of another global tournament. No one should expect an easy ride in a knock-out scenario, especially when the desire for victory has been allowed to consume the process of achieving it.
England, on the other hand, have been consumed of late by an entirely different emotion. The fear of failure hadn’t been a particularly familiar bedfellow throughout their years of white-ball bottom-feeding, but with so much silverware there to lose, they seemed paralyzed by anxiety throughout the 50-over World Cup, and again in their formless group-stage loss to the now-absent Australians in Barbados.
Now, however, you wonder if the fulfilment of the bare minimum of the squad’s expectations – a fourth consecutive T20 World Cup semi-final – can unleash something different in the psyche of a group of players who clearly know what it takes to get across the line. India haven’t won a World Cup since 2011; South Africa and Afghanistan on the other side of the draw have never won one at all. England could yet be in the running for a third title in five years.
As Australia have spent their entire existence demonstrating, that familiarity with the unique pressures of knockout contests clearly counts for something. But so too does a burning desire to prove a point that has been years in the making. Assuming the rain stays away, one or other position will have to give way. It promises to be compelling whatever comes to pass.
IND vs ENG In the spotlight – Rohit, Buttler, Rashid, Kuldeep
In a match of such high stakes, it’s impossible to look past the influence of the two captains – opening bats and icons in their own right, and two men who have hit a vein of form that has the power to dictate their team’s prospects.
Rohit Sharma did just that in his smackdown of Australia in St Lucia, throwing caution to the wind – quite literally – in his calculated assault on Mitchell Starc, and accelerating ever deeper into his day’s work, in the unfettered manner that has been his calling card ever since that notoriously reticent display in Adelaide in 2022.
Rohit’s conscious breaking of India’s milestone-orientated mould could yet prove to be his most important legacy as captain, especially if he can land the trophy that has eluded his country since the man himself was a rookie in 2007.
Jos Buttler, by contrast, hasn’t yet shied away from his right to find his feet in any given innings – and his dovetailing with Phil Salt helps hugely in that regard – but his brutal 83 from 38 balls against USA was the sort of range-hitting display that his England teams have habitually drilled themselves to produce in the nets.
Perhaps more than any other contemporary great, Buttler is a mood player – prone to deep introspection when his game goes awry, as was the case in a woeful 50-over World Cup campaign, but capable of astonishing peaks when his mind is in the right place. He’s two games away from back-to-back T20 titles, and right now, it feels as though that prospect is empowering him.
Standing in the way of both men and their teams, however, will be two wrist spinners in complete command of their respective games. Adil Rashid was England’s key bowler in the 2022 T20 World Cup knockouts, returning a combined analysis of 3 for 42 in eight overs against India and Pakistan, and having started a touch tentatively in the group stage, he’s grown into the tournament with an impeccable command of flight, pace and variation – with his googly rarely failing to hit its mark.
Set against him, however, is the equally wily Kuldeep Yadav, whose scarcity value as a left-arm wrist spinner gives him added power to contort the unwary – as England’s Test team discovered to their cost in India earlier this year. Buttler’s own record against Kuldeep – 87 runs off 63 deliveries for three dismissals in all T20s, is a sign of the threat he could pose.
IND vs ENG Vital Stats that matters
- England lost their only previous completed T20I at the Providence Stadium in Guyana, against West Indies in the opening match of their T20 World Cup campaign in 2010. Though they recovered to claim the title (after a rain-affected escape against Ireland at the same venue), there’ll be no second chances this time out.
- Despite that infamous semi-final two years ago, India still boast a positive overall head-to-head against England in T20Is, with 12 wins and 11 losses in their previous 23 encounters.
- With his match-winning 92 against Australia, Rohit Sharma (4165) vaulted past Virat Kohli (4103) to the top of the run-scoring leaderboard in T20Is.
- Virat Kohli has played three T20 World Cup semifinals. His scores in them read: 72* (44), 89* (47) and 50 (40)
- Phil Salt averages 52.2 and strikes at 180 in T20Is in West Indies
- Four of Rohit Sharma’s five dismissals in this World Cup have come to left-arm pace.
- No team has won a T20 World Cup going undefeated in the previous 8 editions. The last instance of a team going undefeated in an ICC Men’s tournament was India in the 2013 Champions Trophy
- India have lost two consecutive semifinals (2016 vs WI and 2022 vs England) after winning the previous two in 2007 and 2014 editions. And England have won three T20 WC semifinals, all while chasing. Of these, they have gone to win the trophy twice, including in the 2010 edition which happened in the West Indies.
IND vs ENG Probable Playing 11
India:
Rohit Sharma (C), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah
England:
Jos Buttler (C & WK), Phil Salt, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley
IND vs ENG Fantasy XI : Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Jos Buttler , Phil Salt, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Harry Brook.
IND vs ENG Probable Top Performers
Probable Best Batter: Rohit Sharma
The Indian skipper played a scintillating knock against Australia in the last game. In just 41 balls, he amassed 92 runs, hitting seven fours and eight sixes. Rohit Sharma smashed four sixes off a Mitchell Starc over to mesmerize the cricket fraternity. Indian fans will hope for another blistering start from the right-handed batter against England.
Probable Best Bowler: Jasprit Bumrah
The right-arm pacer has been in splendid form so far in the T20 World Cup 2024. He has taken 11 wickets from six matches at an average of 8.55. His economy rate is a miserly 4.09. Jasprit Bumrah is expected to get a good amount of help from the surface in Guyana and England batters will have to bring their A-game to the fore to counter him.
IND vs ENG Match Prediction
Scenario 1
India win the toss and opt to bat first
PP Score: 40-50
IND: 160-170
India win the match
Scenario 2
England win the toss and opt to bat first
PP Score: 45-55
ENG: 160-170
England win the match