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T20 WC: Jos Buttler Smashes Unbeaten Ton Against Sri Lanka, Twitter Reacts
By Aditya Pratap - Nov 1, 2021 11:42 pm
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England and Sri Lanka are locking horns in a Super 12 round match of the T20 World Cup 2021 in Sharjah. England have won all three games of the tournament they played while Sri Lanka have won one and lost one.

Jos Buttler scored an unbeaten ton against Sri Lanka

Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to bowl first. Sri Lanka named an unchanged playing XI for this game and so did England, who stuck with the same team that won against Australia.

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Jason Roy and Jos Buttler came out to open the innings for England. Roy got out early to Wanindu Hasaranga in the second over for 9. Dawid Malan didn’t look like his usual self and perished to Dushmantha Chameera for 6. Jonny Bairstow registered a golden duck as Hasaranga trapped him in front of the wickets.

Buttler, however, was going strong from one end and found a good ally in Eoin Morgan. Both stitched together a 112-run stand and consolidate England’s position in the game.

Buttler scored his first fifty runs at a slow pace before unleashing his beast mode towards the death overs. He was on 87 when the last over began and was on 95 with three balls to go. After playing two dot balls, Buttler smashed a huge six to notch up the first T20I century of his career and this T20 World Cup as well.

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It was Buttler’s unbeaten 101 and Morgan’s 40 runs that propelled England to 163/4 in 20 overs.

See how Twitter reacted to Buttler’s innings;

England (Playing XI): Jason Roy, Jos Buttler(w), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan(c), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Tymal Mills.

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera(w), Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Avishka Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dasun Shanaka(c), Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Lahiru Kumara.