England beat Sri Lanka in the 1st semi-final of the tournament and enters to final in which it might play with either Australia or Pakistan. It was one of the strong performances from England and played really nice in all parts of the game.

Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first but unfortunately England’s bowlers smashed on to Sri Lankan team and grabbed 4 wickets for just 47 runs. AD Mathews, who came to help Sri Lanka with his superb knock, made 58 runs in 45 balls. All England bowlers where tough to play and almost every bowler took a wicket except MH Yardy.

With the target of 129 runs, England got a very slow start and made only 6 runs from first 2 overs. Finally Kieswetter and Lumb started to knock Sri Lankan bowlers and made 39 from 29 balls and 33 from 26 balls respectively. They give 68 runs first wicket partnership to England which was a pillar for England innings. Collingwood was not able to show his magic today. The real magician was Pietersen who made 42 runs in just 26 balls and England had very easy victory in just 16 overs. Broad from England got Man of the match award for his outstanding bowling performance 2 for 21.

So finally England enters into the final and let’s wait for today who wins the battle between Australia and Pakistan. Whoever wins the final will be more interesting as it would be the clash of titans.