(Reuters)

India beat defending champions England by 68 runs in the second semi-final of the ICC T20 World Cup on Thursday (June 27), to book their place in Saturday’s final against South Africa at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Put into bat in the rain-hit match at the Providence Stadium in Guyana, 2007 champions India posted 171 for seven with team captain Rohit Sharma (57) and Suryakumar Yadav (47) scoring the bulk of the runs on a slow track.

Defending champions England were all out for 103 in the 17th over, never really recovering from a top-order collapse and surrendering to India’s spin duo of Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, who claimed three wickets apiece.

South Africa hammered Afghanistan on Wednesday to reach the final.

Both teams entering the finals are undefeated in this World Cup so far.