Jonny Bairstow  

Joe Root’s aggregate 556 was England’s best-ever in a single edition of the World Cup and county colleague Jonny Bairstow ended the competition with 532, a new record for a player at his first World Cup

A professional performance on Wednesday (July 3) has raised hopes of England finally winning their maiden World Cup following heart-breaking losses in three finals (1979, 1987 and 1992)

England, now on 10 points, will need to beat New Zealand in their last game to qualify for the World Cup 2019 semi-finals while India (11 points from 7 games) will need to win at least one of their remaining two games — against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka — to seal the last four spot

Lasith Malinga (4/43) emerged as the star for Sri Lanka in their ICC World Cup 2019 match against England as he dismissed the top three — James Vince (14), Jonny Bairstow (0) and Joe Root (57) and also accounted for Jos Buttler (10)

Jason Roy, who blasted five sixes and had 14 hits to the fence in his 121-ball innings, laid the foundation with two crucial partnerships — 128 with opener Jonny Bairstow (51) and 77 with first-down Joe Root (21) in their ICC World Cup 2019 match against Bangladesh

Watson was dropped on 33 by SRH wicketkeeper Bairstow off Sandeep Sharma. This catch turned out to be very costly as Watson scored 63 runs off 27 balls at a strike rate of 233 after that.

Chennai Super Kings won the match against Sunrisers Hyderbad by six wickets on Tuesday. The Chennai side is once again at the top of the IPL score table with 16 points.

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'It was a medical call. He’s (Jonny Bairstow) not looking 100% fit to keep wickets in a Test match for five days and that was the call that was made,' Root told the media

All-rounder Hardik Pandya spoke to the media after the third day's play of the second Test between India and England at Lord's. He blamed the conditions for the struggle of visitors' bowlers

Having come together shortly after lunch with England struggling at 131-5, Woakes (120*) and Jonny Bairstow (93) shared a match-changing stand of 189 through to 320-6.