
T20 World Cup: England win Super 8s opener as Sri Lanka flail with bat
Super 8s: England, 146-9, bt Sri Lanka, 95 out, by 51 runs Will Jacks scores useful 21 and takes three key wickets Over the first hour of this match the grass banks on either side of the wicket filled both in number and in belief. Dot balls set off boisterous celebrations, wickets provoked delirium. An increasingly joyous crowd whooped as England’s batters trooped dolefully to and from the square. Mexican waves rippled around a stadium already, and prematurely as it turned out, in full cele...