Published 22:53 IST, June 23rd 2024
Jos Buttler Damages solar panel with a mighty 104m six against USA in T20 World Cup 2024- WATCH
Jos Buttler played an exceptional innings on the day. He scored an unbeaten 83 in just 38 balls. Buttler's innings included 6 fours and 7 sixes in the match.
Jos Buttler, who over the years has emerged as one of the cleanest strikers of the ball has yet again displayed his six-hitting prowess during the USA vs England T20 World Cup 2024 game, played at the Kensington Oval Barbados. As England came to chase the paltry target of 116, Buttler started to bludgeon from the outset. There came an instance when he took a Saurabh Netravalkar delivery to a distance of 104 meters and in the process broke the solar panel fitted in the stadium.
T20 World Cup 2024: Jos Buttler's 104 m six leaves dent on solar panel
England squashed USA in the Super Eight game of Group 2. Chasing 116, England got the job done within 10 overs. Jos Buttler played an exceptional innings on the day. He scored an unbeaten 83 in just 38 balls. Buttler's innings included 6 fours and 7 sixes in the match. Almost all of his sixes hit the solar panel and one of his six even left a dent on the energy-saving product. Take a look at the 104 m six of Jos Buttler that broke the solar panel.
England school USA by 10 wickets
Skipper Jos Buttler led the way with a 38-ball 83 not out after Chris Jordan's four-wicket burst, including a hat-trick as defending champions England stormed into the T20 World Cup semi-finals with a 10-wicket rout of USA here on Sunday. Buttler smashed six fours and seven sixes, five of them coming against left-arm spinner Harmeet Singh in the ninth over, as England shot out the paltry 116-run target in 9.4 overs. Earlier, comeback pacer Jordan grabbed a hat-trick in an incisive spell of 4/10 as England skittled out tournament co-hosts USA for a paltry 115. Making a comeback in place of Mark Wood, Jordan took all his four wickets in five balls in the penultimate over, including three in a row en route to his 4/10 in 2.5 overs as USA lasted for 18.5 overs. Adil Rashid, earlier, returned with a miserly 2/13, while Sam Curran (2/23) also picked two wickets.
(With inputs from PTI)
Updated 23:43 IST, June 23rd 2024