With all of England's game-changing brilliance, this victory that advances them to the Men's T20 World Cup final in 2022 came down to getting the fundamentals right.
In Adelaide, they guarded the short square boundaries, allowing just two sixes before the beginning of the death overs.
When the ball was coming on nicely under the lights during the powerplay, they sensed an opportunity to blow open a chase of 169 and seized it, smashing 10 boundaries while the field was up.
In just a matter of time score of 63 for 0 in six overs become 170 for 0 in 16 overs. Jos Buttler and A Hales unleash the real power which was lacking in most of the tournament.
The comeback of Hales - Storm.
England played in a manner they had vowed never to on a miserable, rainy night at the MCG against Ireland. When the captain finally emerged, he remarked, "Let it pain."
Although intense, pain also serves to bring insight at the same time as it confuses. In that it compels people to take every precaution to avoid experiencing it ever again. And that's what took place.
England have batted and bowled with the utmost clarity since that defeat to Ireland, when they were constantly doubting their own abilities. Hales was chosen with the utmost clarity. He was well-versed in Australian conditions when he arrived. They required that knowledge. Call was made by Buttler. The reward is now at hand.
A player who had a long history of being a troublemaker for the England squad received a second opportunity. And he has paid back their trust with an innings that demolished the biggest superpower in cricket.
By himself, Hales hit seven sixes, matching India's total sixes in this game by shattering their bowlers. In order to clear Adelaide's enormous 88-meter straight limits, he even backed himself.
India faced a bowling attack that only let them score 64 runs from 46 balls square of the wicket in the first 15 overs when they were batting. However, England did not have these limitations. Indian bowlers gave their batters all the space they required to get to the short boundary. In their first 15 overs, Hales and Buttler scored 98 runs off 54 balls square of the wicket.
Brilliant Buttler.
This is how a match up is breaked. Buttler has been removed five times in 32 balls by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in T20I cricket prior to this match.
He must have been aware of this since on the first ball, he rushed out of his crease with the intention of neutralising the Indian bowler's greatest asset. He swung.
Buttler finished the night on 80 off 49 and was making the same types of strokes all night.
Adil Rashid was front-loaded against India's right-hand heavy top order. The legspinner also eliminated Suryakumar Yadav.
He reaffirmed Chris Jordan's faith in his yorkers. One of those toppled Virat Kohli off his feet.
With one shot, he subdued a throng of 40,094 people who had been riled up by Hardik Pandya.
Buttler was at the centre of a number of positive developments, but the most of them likely began in the planning stages.
The game was won by England in the locker room. By slowing down, they were able to contain a player who could move in all directions since at least then you could only defend one side of the field. something which stands in front of the batter.
Even after the legspinner had been penalised for a boundary first ball just because he had dared to toss it up, Buttler still supported Rashid to pull off this heist.
Rashid would easily have protected his figures tonight. Sat back and pointed people to his tournament economy rate (6.25). But no, he didn't. He bought into the game and picked up perhaps the most important wicket for England.
Suryakumar is the guy India look to for acceleration through the middle and the death. With him gone for 14 off 10, the game was changed.
H Pandya rising at the right time.
Only one play in the entire game saw England lose it. Hardik then made the decision that enough was enough.
At the beginning of the 17th over, he was 13 off of 15. India had a 110 for 3 score. They had made attempts to trouble England.
A one-bounce four over extra cover off a near Jordan yorker was one of Rohit Sharma's best shots of the game, but he was out three balls later.
After striking Ben Stokes for six and four, Suryakumar lost.
Due to all of this, Kohli entered anchor mode, which required the other player to go big.
So did Hardik. He launched the helicopter attack on Jordan. He assisted Sam Curran in guiding a wide yorker for four past short third. He swung flat at short balls all over the field.
In their last four overs, India scored 58 runs. Hardik was the source of fifty of them. His scoring progression from the 18th over was as follows: 6, 6, 0, 1, 1, 4, 6, 4, 1, 6, 4, out (having trodden on his stumps while whipping the ball for what would have been another four). Of those 12, five were tries at yorkers. Numerous of them touched down fairly close to the ideal location.
From looking like they would be lucky to get to 140, India posted 168 runs on the board which gives the a lot of hope.
And then nothing happened. The way English openers batted, Indian batsman should have thought on there extra cautious approach especially in first 10 overs where they were 62 for 2.
Match summary:
India: 168/6 in 20 overs ( Hardik 63, Kohli 50, Jordan 3-43)
England: 170/0 in 16 overs ( Hales 86*, Buttler 80* )
Result:
England beat India by 10 wickets with 24 balls remaining.
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