Chasing 169 for victory in the second semi-final in Adelaide, Hales hit seven sixes in his 86 and Butler, who scored 80, struck a spellbinding run to reach the final in Melbourne on Sunday with four overs to spare. He hit three sixes in his batting performance.
Hardik Pandya’s 33-ball 63 guided India to 168-6 but the aggregate proved insufficient for a motivated opening pair as England chased down their second T20 crown since their 2010 win. .
England skipper Buttler hit three boundaries in the opening over of his chase and his team never looked back.
He continued to bat and Hales soon joined the big-hitting party as England won 63-0 in six overs.
Hales scored 50 off 28 balls and was serious on Axar Patel, who conceded 28 runs in his three overs as the match turned away from India in a flurry of sixes and fours.
Hales completed the team’s 100 with another six off Pandya and Butler soon geared up to adjust to his teammate.
The skipper completed his half-century with a six and a four off Pandya, dashing any hopes of ending their world title drought since India’s 2013 Champions Trophy win.
He scored the winning run with a six off Mohammed Shami and recounted the 1992 50-over World Cup final between Pakistan and England, which Pakistan won.
pandya fireworks
Earlier, Virat Kohli scored his fourth half-century of the tournament and shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 61 runs with Pandya, who broke the opposition attack in the final overs, including 57 runs in the last three overs, including 20 runs in one. Were. Sam Curran.
But it proved too little, too late, after a slow start with the bat and then a poor performance on the field against some of England’s somewhat disciplined bowling.
Chris Jordan took three wickets for the injured Mark Wood.
England invited India to bat and KL Rahul started with a boundary off Ben Stokes.
Seamer Chris Woakes got Rahul caught on the rising ball for five runs.
Captain Rohit Sharma hit four boundaries after a poor start as he and Kohli attempted to rebuild, but Jordan broke in his first over and ended the 43-run partnership when Sharma scored 57 runs wide-on. But missed.
Suryakumar Yadav hit a six and a four off Stokes, but soon fell for 14 in Adil Rashid’s leg-spin.
Kohli scored 4,000 T20 International runs with a boundary off Liam Livingstone, which took India’s total to 100-3 after 15 overs.
Kohli, who leads the tournament batting charts with 296 runs, reached 50 off 39 balls but was caught by Rashid at short third man off Jordan.
On the last ball of Jordan’s innings, Pandya hit four fours and five sixes and got his stumps out on the hit wicket.
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