England beat Sri Lanka by 26 runs! WICKET! Theekshana c Jordan b Ali 2 (Sri Lanka 137 all out)
Buttler is player of the match and says the key was patience. For a while, they thought 120 would e a decent score, but they tried to target a side each and he loves batting with Morgan. The run out was his favourite aspect of the day, though, because he knew it was getting tight and Moeen would be bowling at the death, an unusual state of affairs. I can’t wrap my head around how dazzling that innings was, just the pure expertise of it – he was in total control throughout, and when he needed a six to bring up his ton off the final ball of the innings, it was just so obvious what weas going to happen.
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Jos Buttler dominated the Sri Lankan bowling attack after scoring an impressive century, as Sri Lanka and England locked horns in their T20 World Cup clash Monday.
Sri Lanka need 164 runs to win the match.
It seemed curtains for England earlier on, when the ODI World Cup champions lost three important wickets to Sri Lanka inside the first 10 overs.
However, England bounced back courtesy of a solid partnership between Morgan and Buttler, with the latter scoring a fighting century.
Buttler scored 101 runs from 67 balls, hitting six fours and an equal number of sixes.
Earlier, Sri Lanka put a formidable England under pressure, taking three early wickets as the island-nation plays against the former world champions in the in the Super 12 clash of the Twenty20 World Cup Monday.
Earlier, Dasun Shanaka, the captain of Sri Lanka, won the toss and elected to bowl first against England.
