Bairstow's Second ton on trott Seals England's Semi Final Spot Since 1992 World Cup.

Durham County ground hosted the much anticipated and important contest of this icc cricket world cup 2019 were fate of Pakistan new zealand and england had to be decided. England needed to win this match at any cost to stay in the hunt for semi finals. England's eion morgan after winning the toss decided to put runs on the board. Batting first has been England's positive all round the tournament. Riding on a rapid start of jason roy and jonny bairstow, the duo put on 123 for the opening wicket before roy was dimissed on 60 runs by James neesham. Bairstow then joined root and the duo shared 71 run stand for the second wicket, in between Jonny bairstow reached his second ton on the trott of this event. After jonny bairstow was dismissed on 106 by matt henry England middle order suffered a collapse and couldn't reach the 350 plus target which was once on cards. Only eion morgan played some rapid shots and was out on 42.  New zealand pacers did a great job by restricting them to 305-8 in fifty overs. For new zealand boult, henry and neesham picked up a couple of wickets each.
Chasing a target of 306 runs New zealand batsmen never looked chasing this target. They lost henry in the opening over to woakes. Guptill was also out cheaply on 8 to jofra archer. Nz were reeling at 14-2. After that the dual run-outs of taylor and Williamson dents the kiwi innings. Only tom latham batted superbly to show some resilience by cracking a half century. He was dismissed for 57 runs by liam plunkett to set new Zealand tattering. Rest of the batsmen did not have any impact on this run chase and were folded on 186 runs to hand new zealand a massive 119 run defeat. For England mark wood was the star in bowling taking up 3-34. With this win england qualified for semi finals the first time since 1992. Pakistan are officially out of semi finals race after England's massive win.

Match Summary
England 🇬🇧 305-8 overs 50
Bairstow 106
Roy 60
Neesham 2-41
Henry 2-54
New Zealand 186 overs 45
Latham 57
Taylor 28
Wood 3-34
England won by 119 runs.