Jacob Bethell’s thrilling century was not sufficient as India pipped England by simply seven runs to seal a spot within the T20 World Cup closing in a high-scoring thriller in Mumbai.
Needing 254 for victory – a file on this competitors – after being flogged round Wankhede Stadium, Bethell hit a scarcely plausible 105 from 48 balls to threaten one in all England’s all-time white-ball victories.
The 22-year-old, the rising star of English cricket, stored England afloat from 63-3 and 95-4 and took boundaries from the ultimate two balls of the seventeenth over to go away 45 to get from the ultimate three.
The Wankhede Stadium crowd, jubilant when Sanju Samson earlier crashed 89 from 42 balls, had turn into more and more nervous however the nice Jasprit Bumrah remained calm via the strain, conceding solely six from the subsequent over.
Sam Curran was caught for 18 within the nineteenth – Hardik Pandya additionally holding his nerve – and Bethell was unable to get 30 wanted from the final alongside Jamie Overton.
He was run-out trying to maintain the strike and England, regardless of three sixes by Jofra Archer when the sport was all however executed, completed on 246-7.
India have been additionally boosted by two sensational catches by Axar Patel, first to dismiss Harry Brook after which a relay effort to see off Will Jacks, however England will rue an important drop by Brook.
Within the third over he put down Samson on 15 – a mistake India punished by piling up the very best T20 rating ever made towards England.
It means co-hosts India will play New Zealand in Sunday’s closing in Ahmedabad.
England don’t play once more till the primary Take a look at of the summer season towards New Zealand in June however Bethell’s knock ensured they don’t depart utterly deflated.
