England is facing Sri Lanka in the Super-12 Group-1 on Saturday in the T20 World Cup. Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to bat first.
The Sri Lankan team is already out of the semi-final race. It is a do-or-die match for England. If England wins, it will advance to the semi-finals.
If England loses, Australia will reach the last four as the second team from this group. New Zealand has already qualified for the semi-finals.
Head to Head
The English team has the edge over Sri Lanka historically in T20Is, having won 9 out of the 13 games played between the teams so far. In ICC T20 World Cup history, the English team has beaten the Sri Lankan team four times while losing only once.
The last time England and Sri Lanka met at the ICC T20 World Cup was in 2021 in Sharjah, when England beat Sri Lanka by 26 runs.
performance of both teams in the tournament so far
Sri Lanka has won 2 out of 4 matches and lost 2. Even if the team wins, they will only have 6 points which are not enough to enter the semi-finals. At the same time, England lost 1 match against Ireland. If the team wins the match, then they will also get 7 points, then due to the high net run rate, England will come second instead of Australia.
Sri Lanka would like to end the journey with a win
Sri Lanka is the only team in Group 1 to have played their entire matches. Not a single match of the team got washed out in the rain. Despite playing four games, Sri Lanka could not make much use of it. Because the team won only 2 matches out of 4 and now they are out of the race for the semifinals.
Sri Lanka won their first match against Ireland but after that, they had to face defeats against New Zealand and Australia. Sri Lanka’s star players Wanindu Hasaranga and Dhananjay de Silva won the team against Afghanistan in the last match. Despite a six-wicket win over Afghanistan, their semi-final hopes are over.