- Group 1: England, 144-6, bt Sri Lanka, 141-8, by 4 wkts
- Stokes’s unbeaten 42 stems wobble; Rashid takes 1-16
England beat Sri Lanka by four wickets in Sydney to secure the two points they needed to claim a place in the semi-finals, and to knock Australia out of their own tournament, but only after bringing to an apparently straightforward run chase more wobbles than a Weeble collectors’ convention. The winning runs eventually came with just two balls remaining; fortunately, like the popular 1970s toy, England wobbled but they didn’t fall down.
At 70 without loss at the end of the powerplay they had required less than a run a ball and needed only to keep the ball on the floor and augment a string of singles with the occasional boundary. There are not many situations in this format where ambition and aggression are best avoided, but here was one. Instead England got greedy, and Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali were all caught to bring Sri Lanka back into the game.
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