{"id":8523,"date":"2024-06-25T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2024-06-25T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T08:32:00","slug":"england-route-usa-to-book-place-in-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/england-route-usa-to-book-place-in-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"England Route USA to book place in Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Ben Ayuko<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>{<em>image by mykhel<\/em>}<\/p>\n<p><em>contact info: gnrlspecific@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>England<\/strong> absolutely demolished <strong>USA<\/strong> in their last group game of the second group stage of the ICC T20 World Cup to set up a semi-final against India.<\/p>\n<p>The USA, the host nation, batted first and could only muster up 115 runs before all <strong>10 wickets<\/strong> were bowled out after 18.5 overs. The highlight of the round, and probably the weekend (if not the whole tournament) was definitely <strong>Chris Jordan<\/strong>, not only getting a hattrick of back-to-back-to-back wickets but getting USA&#8217;s <strong>last 3 wickets<\/strong> during their inning. Like respectfully digging the grave in which they were to be buried.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t the final nail in the coffin. No, that honour went to England Captain, <strong>Jos Buttler<\/strong> and fellow batsman, <strong>Phil Salt<\/strong> as they cruised through their innings without enduring a single stump. Jos Buttler ended on 83 runs with Salt finishing them off with a boundary which brought him up to 25 runs, after a mere 9.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p>England won by 10 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, India got their revenge against Australia after beating them in their last group game by 20 runs to secure their passage through to the semi-final and set up a clash against England. South Africa and Afghanistan make up the remaining 2 spots for those vying for the ultimate title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Ayuko {image by mykhel} contact info: gnrlspecific@gmail.com &nbsp; England absolutely demolished USA in their last group game of the second group stage of the ICC T20 World Cup to set up a semi-final against India. The USA, the host nation, batted first and could only muster up 115 runs before all 10 wickets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}