Ireland v Sri Lanka: Instant joy for the men in green as Tillakaratne Dilshan spoons the second ball of the innings high on his hip off Boyd Rankin, caught by Niall O'Brien, and Sri Lanka are 4-1 at the end of the first over
Good cricket all round in the fourth over as Trent Johnston fools Kumar Sangakkara with a rising ball, O'Brien takes a smart catch from the nick, and the Sri Lanka captain walks before the umpire signals that it's 14-2
Former skipper Mahela Jayawardene shares a stand of 57 with Sanath Jayasuriya to pick up the run rate before the 39-year-old opener falls lbw to Kyle McCallan
Chamara Silva and Jehan Mubarak depart, Ireland restricting their opponents to just 47 runs from overs 11 to 18 before Alex Cusack bowls the swashbuckling Jawardene who makes 78 from 53 balls
Sri Lanka suffer a mini-collapse as they try hitting out in the final overs with Cusack bowling Angelo Mathews and just missing a five-for from the last ball of the innings as Kevin O'Brien drops Ajantha Mendis
Niall O'Brien, surviving a good shout for caught behind and a batting with a damaged ankle, and William Porterfield start the chase for 140 runs with a 50 partnership playing the Sri Lanka attack around the ground
Porterfield, 31 from 29 balls, and Andrew White, 22 from 21 balls, are not so fortunate as both are caught by Sangakkara but Ireland's real concern is the run-rate: 91 after 15 overs
Mendis and Lasith Malinga start picking up the wickets but it's Muttiah Muralitharan choking the run rate, with figures of 13-1 from four overs, that sees off Ireland's brave effort as they lose by nine runs
England v India: Lord's has possibly never known a Sunday evening like this - the ground full of flags, chanting, endless noise and thousands of people knowing that a defeat for India would eliminate them
England are put in to bat and continue in the mode that they have played much of the tournament - timid - only four runs from the first two overs and losing the wicket of Luke Wright, caught well by Yusuf Pathan
Kevin Pietersen, who comes in after Wright, and Ravi Bopara are having none of it and set about amending England's score with a flurry of boundaries, making a half-century partnership from 35 balls
India arrest England's development with the wickets of Bopara (bowled by Ravindra Jadeja for 37) and Pietersen, playing across the line to a full toss after smashing the previous ball for six
Dimitri Mascarenhas is brought in to play India's spin but he and Owais Shah, caught by Jadeja on 12 (from 10 balls), can't manage a single boundary from overs nine to 15
Captain Paul Collingwood is soon out lbw, playing a reverse sweep for no good reason, James Foster and Graeme Swann follow, victims of Harbhajan Singh, but Mascarenhas and some fortunate extras set India 154 to win
The England attack opens with two good overs each from James Anderson and Ryan Sidebottom and get their reward when Rohit Sharma, having trouble with the shorter ball, chops one on to his stumps
Suresh Raina soon joins Sharma in the dug-out as his mistimed slog is taken by Luke Wright but, more importantly for England, India are slipping behind the required run rate at 31-2 from five overs
The India fans have not lost heart but their side are scraping along at six an over, when they need 10, but, with Gautam Gambhir and Jadeja gone, big-hitters Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Dhoni are now at the crease
Yuvraj looks in among the runs, 17 from eight balls, but swings and misses at the next - a drifter from Swann - and frighteningly quick glove-work by Foster has his bails in the Lord's dust
Captain Dhoni, supported by Yusuf Pathan, can't get hold of the bowling of Stuart Broad, Sidebottom, or even Wright, and England hold their nerve to send the defending champions out of the World Twenty20
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