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VERDICT: England captain Jos Buttler is capable of dominating T20 cricket like few others and, in a brilliant partnership with Alex Hales, India had no answer

Jos Buttler and Alex Hales shared a brutal unbeaten opening partnership worth 170 runs to fire England into the T20 World Cup final

Indian cricket shapes the world game yet they have now gone 11 years without a trophy as big game misjudgments continue to cost them

Alex Hales and Jos Buttler shine in an unbroken opening partnership as a ruthless England humiliate India by 10 wickets.

Alex Hales and Jos Buttler fired England into the T20 World Cup final in stunning fashion, with a brutally clinical 10-wicket victory that has set up a mouthwatering showdown with Pakistan

Virat Kohli impressed at Adelaide again.

Ben Stokes’ second ball had been walloped over the short leg side boundary for six. Mark Wood’s first soon followed it, at the start of an over that whizzed away for 17. Even Sam Curran, perhaps the outstanding bowler in the tournament so far, could not contain Sri Lanka’s charge.

England take on India in a mouth-watering T20 World Cup semi-final on Thursday in Adelaide, and Jos Buttler's men will be very wary of the threat of in-form Virat Kohli

India have reached the final on just one out of the last six occasions.

Before a dead-rubber win in July’s third T20 international at Trent Bridge, England had lost four successive meetings in the format.

And then there were four. The T20 World Cup’s ruthless Super 12 stage has chewed up and spat out the also-rans, among them the defending champions and hosts, to leave a quartet of contenders heading into this week’s semi-finals.