T20 World Cup 2024: Buttler, Jordan take England to semis with 10-wicket triumph over USA

England captain Jos Buttler smashed a blazing 83 off 38 balls to register a commanding 10wicket win against the USA in the Super Eight match to secure a semifinal spot in the T20 World Cup on SundayChasing a modest target of 116 Buttler and Phil Salt took two overs to understand the conditions before unleashing their true potentialIn the third over Buttler made his intentions clear with two giant sixes off Saurabh Netravalkar he carried the momentum in the powerplay overs and guided England to 60 with his cleanhitting prowessJust before his halfcentury Buttler shifted to top gear and amassed five consecutive sixes off Harmeet Singh in the ninth over to take England to the 100run markButtler struck a boundary off Shadley van Schalkwyks second over to take the defending champions over the line in just 94 overs He remained unbeaten on 83 studded with seven sixes and six fours while Salt scored 25 not outEarlier Chris Jordan clinched a hattrick to all out the USA for 115Jordan who replaced Mark Wood in the playing 11 became the first England player to take a hattrick in a T20 World Cup match He became the second bowler after Pat Cummins to bag a hattrick in the ongoing tournament Cummins bagged two consecutive hattricks for Australia in this edition of the T20 World CupInvited to bat first the USA had a torrid start of the innings with Reece Topley making an inroad in the first over by removing dangerous Andries Gous 8Steven Taylor and Nitish Kumar tried to make the most of the powerplay with a 34run stand for the second wicket before Sam Curran gave the second breakthrough to the USA in the sixth over Taylor departed after scoring 12 off 13 balls USA were 482 after the end of the powerplayUS skipper Aaron Jones joined Nitish in the middle but the duo failed to put up a big partnership as Adil Rashid clean bowled the former for 10 runs in the ninth overNitish too fell prey to Adil Rashid in the 11th over and departed after scoring 30 runs Cory Andersons stay in the middle gave some respite to the side as he stitched two crucial partnerships of 21 and 27 with Milind Kumar 4 and Harmeet Singh 21 respectively in the middle oversHowever Liam Livingstone broke the partnership with a scalp of Milind in the 14th over With the wicket of Harmeet in the 17th over Curran broke the sixthwicket partnership to dismantle USAs battingIn the 18th over Jordan came with all guns blazing to dismiss Anderson 29 before completing his hattrick with wickets of Ali Khan 0 Nosthush Kenjige 0 and Saurabh Netravalkar 0 on successive balls The USA lost their last five wickets without adding a single run to the scoreboard as they finished at 11510 in 185 oversFor England Jordan bagged four wickets while Curran and Rashid clinched two scalps eachBrief scoresEngland 1170 in 94 overs Jos Buttler 83 Phil Salt 25 Nosthush Kejige 019 defeated USA 11510 in 185 overs Nitish Kumar 30 Corey Anderson 29 Chris Jordan 410 Adil Rashid 213 by 10 wicketsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever