Chris Jordan creates new England record with four wickets as defending champions beat USA in T20 World Cup to seal semi-final berth

Chris Jordan became the first English player to take a hat-trick in international T20 cricket at the World Cup as England sealed their place in the semi-finals.

The 35-year-old claimed FOUR wickets to end the United States’ innings in England’s final Super 8 match.

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England had to beat the United States to have any chance of qualifying for the semi-finals, and after Jordan made history, they easily chased down 116 in less than ten overs.

The story of Jordan creating history began with getting Corey Anderson before removing Muhammad Ali-Khan, Nosthush Kenjige and Sarubah Netravalkar in consecutive deliveries.

Jordan finished England’s innings with a score of 4-10.

The hat-trick itself was quite special as he first bowled Ali-Khan with a beauty that clipped the top of off stump.

He followed it up with a delivery that caught Kenjige squarely in front, looked at the batter, but he had no chance.

Netravalkar then came out and saw his middle stump removed with another stunning delivery.

Jordan, born in Barbados, spoke to the media immediately after the end of the American round.

He said: “It’s an amazing feeling, to be able to at least restrain them after a strong performance on the pitch. To do it in a special place like this is always nice.

“I’ve scored a hat-trick a few times before, but I was wrong, so I’m just happy I was able to do it.

“It was a really good performance. We summed up the conditions well. Adil Rashid controlled it and Liam Livingstone played well and set up the game really well for us.”

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England are the reigning T20 champions and are eagerly tackling their modest goal.

Jos Buttler led the way and finished unbeaten with 83 in just 38 balls.

The captain was in the right mood from the start and scored five sixes in one over as England stormed into the last four.

He and Phil Salt stayed there until the end, securing England a victory by ten wickets.

Speaking after the match, Buttler said: “We paid a lot of respect to the United States, but we talked a lot about our intensity and whether we thought if we did that on the field we would be too good.

“We were thinking about the net run rate? Yes, absolutely. You have to earn the right to start, we started well and once we got through a few overs we decided to target that side with the wind.”

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