England booked their place in the T20 World Cup semi-finals after sauntering to a 10-wicket thrashing of the United States on Sunday. (Highlights | Scorecard)
Chris Jordan excelled at the end of the USA's innings, taking a hat-trick to finish with remarkable figures of 4-10, while Jos Buttler plundered 83 off 38 balls to see Englan🍨d over the line with 62 deliveries to spare.
Reece Topley, who failed to t▨ake a s⭕ingle wicket in the defeat to South Africa, set the tone early on as he snared Andries Gous for eight in the first over.
Though Nitish Kumar (30) and Corey Anderson (29) looked to be finding a rhythm for the tournament co-hosts, it did not last long, with Jordan entering the fray to get four wickets in five balls and bowl the U✃SA out for just 115 in 18.5 ove💖rs.
England’s openers got all the work done themselves as&🍰nbsp;Phil Salt scored 25, while Buttler did all the heavy lifting in his knock, smashing six fours and seven sixes, one of which hit the stadium roof.
Matthew Mott's side are the first team through to the last four thanks to their significant net run-rℱate advantage over West Indieඣs and South Africa, who meet later on Sunday.
Data Debrief: Firing on all cylinders
Jordan became the eighth player to take a hat-trick of wickets at the T20 World Cup, but he also broke a record out in the field; he now has the mo🎃st catches by a fielder (47) in T20Is for England, overtaking Eoin Morgan's 46.
Bu🎃ꦦttler got his first half-century of the tournament in this match, and scored 32 of his 83 runs in a single over, scoring five sixes in the ninth before getting another at the start of the 10th to seal the win for England.
