India vs England, T20 World Cup 2022 Highlights: ENG race to record 10-wicket win over IND, face PAK in final

In just a few minutes, we will see the two teams walking out at the Adelaide Oval. It's all simmering nicely at the ground. 

“Very excited. Semifinal of a World Cup. Every ball will matter from here. Very excited. At the same time, trying to keep calm and follow the processes that got us here. A lot of people keep asking how do you find yourself calm in these situations. A lot of that comes from preparation. If you prepare well and tick all the boxes, if you're confident about your skills, you will be calm. Sometimes I feel that we aren't batting well or maybe they (SKY, Kohli) have been batting too well (laughs). He (Kohli) has been doing this for years, I still think he got his international opportunity two years late, God is really kind still and he has been fantastic for us.”

We would have batted first anyway. We've played some good cricket, another opportunity for us to play the same way we have all tournament. Important to hold the nerve and take the game will the end. We've played these guys a fair bit in recent years and know what strengths-weaknesses they have. Important to exploit that. Important to stay calm and do what we want to do. It (injury) was a scare but I'm fine now. The kind of talent we have, it was a tough one (to pick the XI). Same team for us.

“We're going to bowl first. There is going to be a great atmosphere here. Dimensions are different, we will have to adapt. We have two changes - Malan and Wood are out with injuries - Salt and Jordan come in. Looks a good wicket. Hope it stays well the whole game.”

Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid

KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh

Jos Buttler has won the toss, England to bowl first. Rohit Sharma says that he would have chosen to bat first anyway. Everyone's happy here. 

Rohit Sharma and Jos Buttler are out there, Ravi Shastri gets his voice to thunder around the Adelaide Oval. Here we go then!

There is a very good chance that the team may have to choose between these two but India's wicketkeepers remain united. Karthik could be seen giving Pant some edge catching practice. 

One of the features in Adelaide is short square boundaries and extremely long straight boundaries. “Looks to be an absolute belter. There is a cover of grass that should help the surface to hold together and the best part is that it's a rock-hard surface. The average score here has been 157 but this looks a high-scoring track,” reckon Pommie Mbangwa and Shane Watson. 

Mark Wood seems to be warming up with the rest of his team mates. Reason to smile for England fans?

Adelaide has been receiving bright toasty sunshine over the last few days but there were some showers last night. Fear not, though, the forecast is all clear today during the match.

The first time India met England in the T20 World Cup ended up producing a highlight reel that has never been seen since in a major tournament. Yuvraj Singh got into a bit of an argy bargy with Andrew Flintoff and he took it out on a young Stuart Broad. He smashed six sixes in that over, reaching his half century in 12 balls and that remains the quickest any player has reached that mark in international cricket. 

India's two senior most batters had a bit of a scare in the nets going into this match. Rohit copped a blow to his right arm while Kohli got a hit on the groin. Both players seem to fine though. 

India's middle order has managed six 50+ scores while none of the England middle-order batters have yet aggregated 60 runs across the tournament.

No team has won a men's T20I at the Adelaide Oval after winning the toss in 11 games. So it seems pretty obvious what the team winning the toss is going to do unless conditions tell them otherwise of course. In this tournament, the team winning the toss has never won a match. On the other hand, it has to be noted that it was the team that was clearly the weaker side who somehow won the toss on all those occassions and between India and England, you really can't pick an obvious favourite. 

Both these players are IPL regulars and so have faced each other a number of times and Buttler has not had too much of a great time facing Bhuvneshwar. In T20 internationals, Bhuvi has dismissed Buttler five times in 30 balls. Buttler is opening the batting for England, Bhuvi normally opens the bowling for India. Danger signs?

You can ask as many questions as you want but Ben Stokes showed in the nervy match against Afghanistan that when England need a result in a big match, he is the man they can depend on. Stokes' low scores and strike rates had led to questions on whether he deserves a place in this batting lineup, ignoring the fact that he was also a necessary part of England's pace battery and an ace fielder. He didn't smash the ball out of the park in that game against Afghanistan, instead he did what was needed but the other players couldn't do - keep calm and keep knocking the ball into gaps to run the ones and twos. Malan's injury meant that he was brought in at No.3 and it looked like that is the perfect position for the superstar all-rounder. There will be no surprises if he walks in at that position today in Adelaide. 

Kohli's Adelaide stats don't make for pretty reading for England fans. Kohli averages 75.58 at the Adelaide Oval, with two one-day international hundreds to add to his three in four Tests. “I absolutely love playing in this ground. Right from the nets at the back, as soon as I enter, it makes me feel at home. That knock at MCG was meant to be, but when I come here, it's like I'm meant to come to Adelaide and enjoy my batting. As soon as I knew the WC was in Australia, I was grinning from ear to ear,” Kohli said immediately after the win over Bangladesh, which was India's last match at the ground in this tournament. He was player of the match for scoring an unbeaten 64 in 44 balls. "I knew good cricketing shots would be the key. I knew the kind of experience and game awareness of having played in Australia will come in handy for the team"

Or so it seemed when he was playing shots hitherto unseen since a certain South African AB de Villiers was at his pomp during India's match against Zimbabwe. He has scored 225 runs in five innings thus far in this tournament at a strike rate of, wait for it, 193.96. His career strike rate stands at 179.63 in T20Is in 37 innings, scoring 1270 runs at an average of 42.33. His stats are just screaming out loud and yet, you get a full measure of his talent only when you watch him play an innings in which he has faced more than 10 balls.

Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Chris Jordan, David Willey, Tymal Mills, Philip Salt

KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Deepak Hooda

Imagine if that happened. The opening match between these two was pretty much the showstopper of this tournament, even though there have been upsets and thrillers that arguably match up to the sheer tension and drama of that game right until the last ball. But that is almost certain to pale in comparison to the spectacle that would be on offer at the MCG in the final if it is these two sides who are going to play it. Pakistan were almost perfect to brush New Zealand aside in their semi-final and India will have to do something of that sort to get past this dangerous England side first. 

Former India head coach Anil Kumble says on ESPNCricinfo that India should stick to Pant for this game considering it is the Adelaide Oval, which provides assistance to spin, and he will be a good option against Adil Rashid. 

Batter Dawid Malan has sustained a groin injury and fast bowlerMark Wood is suffering from muscle fitness. While Buttler said that the pair have been given time till the morning of the game to be fit, it looks highly unlikely that they will make it to the eleven. Phil Salt and Chris Jordan have been going through the paces in the nets.