England beat the rain and Namibia to keep their T20 World Cup defence alive but are still reliant on Australia beating Scotland.
England beat the rain and Namibia to keep their T20 World Cup defence alive but are still reliant on Australia beating Scotland to go through to the Super 8s.
Initially given 11 overs to bat, England were 13-2, including captain Jos Buttler out for a four-ball duck, but rallied to post 122-5 in an innings reduced to 10 overs by another shower. Namibia’s target was increased to 126 because of the interruption and, despite finding wickets hard to come by, England always restricted the scoring.
If Scotland beat Australia for the first time in their history, or if there is no result in St Lucia, the Scots will take their place.The job is not yet done for England but for a long while it looked as though they would not even get into this position. The match was 46 minutes away from being abandoned when conditions finally allowed play to begin at 16:00 local time.
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