After the completion of super eight matches its now turn of the most important matches of the tournament. Tournament is so far going as expected with leading team performs amazingly. There is bit disappointment as India and South Africa did not give enough fight to make the semi-final placement more exciting.

Semi-finals will be played among England, Sri Lanka, Australia and Pakistan. Today there is first semi-final taking place between England and Sri Lanka. So far both the teams have played really nice in the tournament, but England takes more credit than Sri Lanka based on the performance.

England has entered semi-final with easy wins in super 8 matches. It has never entered a global ICC tournament final since 2004, so this time it will try to win this semi-final by keeping Sri Lanka aside. Till now it has been a superb opening pair, which has done really well in till date matches. Also Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan have played really well at the middle order throughout the tournament.

On the other side Sri Lanka has struggled really hard to get into semi-final. Last match with India was so much tensed for them as they won on the last ball of the match. Of course Indian team was not at all to their capabilities. Mahela Jayewardene and Kumar Sangakkara both have showed their capabilities of playing really well throughout the tournament. Also Sri Lankan team has proved to win without them performing by the win over India.

So we can say the match will be much of excitements and lots of fun.

Teams:

England squad

PD Collingwood, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, C Kieswetter, MJ Lumb, EJG Morgan, KP Pietersen, A Shahzad, RJ Sidebottom, GP Swann, JC Tredwell, LJ Wright, MH Yardy

Sri Lanka squad

KC Sangakkara, LD Chandimal, TM Dilshan, CU Jayasinghe, ST Jayasuriya, DPMD Jayawardene, S Randiv, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, NLTC Perera, T Thushara, UWMBCA Welegedara

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