betvisa888Twitter reactions: Australia out of T20 World Cup 2022 as England beat Sri Lanka to reach the semifinals

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Here is how Twitter reacted

England defeated Sri Lanka in their last Super 12 fixture to enter the semifinals of the ongoing T20 World Cup 2022 on Saturday. With the victory, defending champions Australia have been knocked out of the multi-team event.

Batting first, the Islanders were 80/2 at the halfway stage and were cruising towards a big total. However, the English team then bounced back and completely changed the scenario, as Sri Lanka only managed to reacไh 141/8 in 20 overs.

Apart from opener Pathum Nissanka, who smashed a brilliant 67 off 45 deliveries with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes, no other batter was able to contribute well enough. For the three lions, Mark Wood was the pick of the bowler, bag💞ging three wickets fo✱r 26 in 3 overs.

In response, England’s openers took their side to a flyer as the team scored 75 for no loss after seven overs. But then the wheels started to fall off a bit as England started losing wickets at regular intervals as the contest went down to the wire.

Ben Stokes, however, held fort on one end and kept rotating the strike with some odd boundaries and ensured England registered a victory by four wickets with two balls to spare. Stokes remained u𒀰nbeaten at 42 while Alex Hales top-scored with 47 off 30 at the top.

Here is how Twitter reacted:

A thriller in Sydney and England hold their nerve to book a spot in the semi-finals! 🤯 | | 📝💫:
— ICC (@ICC)

England beat Sri Lanka by 4 wickets.💔
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC)

You beauties!! onto the semis we go!
— Jonny Bairstow (@jbairstow21)

If there is on𒈔e player England would want batting in a tense situation, it would be Ben Stokes. A feeling of certainty around him.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)

Ben Stokes’ best T20 innings for England: calm𒅌, clinical, ꦿfocused.
— Simon Mann (@Cricket_Mann)

The host nation has never won the ICC Men's T20 World Cup
No team has won consecutive ICC Men's T20 World Cup titles
The defending champion has never made the Final the following ICC Men's T20 World Cup
— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)

Benjamin Stokes – where would England be without him?
England are through to the semi-finals of the
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA)

When we need him most…
He's always there 👏 |
— England Cricket (@englandcricket)

Match winner Ben Stokes 🤟
— Durham Cricket (@DurhamCricket)

Eventually, Ben Stokes' wisdom of experience of playing on slow turners helped out England.
As I observed before England need some old school batting here. Yes, they don't have Root but Stokes stood up.
SL? Their pacemen upfront let them down.
— Bharath Ramaraj (@Fancricket12)

Ben Stokes' sensible batting takes England home. Scorecard:
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)

The crisis man💃, The man big stages, Ben Stokes arrived for England in the must win🐈 game.
42* runs from 36 balls when their middle order struggled in th💎e r💎un chase.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)

Ben Stokes was the only middle-order batter to score at a 100+ strike rate today on either side. Vital innings when England needed it to take them through to the ಌsemi-finals
— Matt Roller (@mroller98)