England's beats Sri Lanka by four wickets to qualify for semi Finials.
England qualified for the T20 World Cup semi-finals with a brazen triumph by four wickets over Sri Lanka in their last Really 12 match on Saturday, sending has and reigning champs Australia out of the competition all the while.
Magnificent demise bowling from Imprint Wood (3-26) and Sam Curran confined Sri Lanka to 141 for eight and in spite of the fact that they made weighty work of it, Britain arrived at their objective with two balls in excess.
The 2010 heroes guaranteed a spot in the last four alongside Gathering 1 champs New Zealand. The two semi-finalists from Gathering 2 will be settled on Sunday.
Australia had required a Sri Lanka upset to keep alive their possibility advancing however those expectations hoped to have been run when Pathum Nissanka was excused for 67 in the sixteenth over of the Asia Cup champions' innings.
Nissanka clubbed Ben Stirs up for the first of his five sixes from the second chunk of the innings and toward the finish of the fifteenth over Sri Lanka were 116 for three and looking great for a fair score at a ground where pursuing can be hard.
Spinner Adil Rashid had Nissanka gotten at the long-on limit by substitute defender Chris Jordan to take his most memorable wicket of the competition and Sri Lanka self-destructed, scoring 25 for five over the last five overs.
Openers Alex Hales and Jos Buttler put on 75 for the main wicket before the Britain skipper was excused for 28 by Chamika Karunaratne's fine-jumping get at profound midwicket off the bowling of Wanindu Hasaranga.
Hasaranga eliminated Hales got and bowled for 47 soon a while later before Harry Stream, Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali followed efficiently to leave Britain wobbling on 111-5 in the fifteenth over.
The triumph target was never significantly more than a take off, in any case, and Stirs up (42 not out) and Chris Woakes (five not out) got them across the line in the last over on 144 for six.
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