Don't Miss

ENG

Cricket
Football
NDTV Podcast
Formula 1
Tennis
Golf
Badminton
- Kabaddi
- Boxing
- Athletics
- Chess
- Swimming
- Shooting
- Wrestling
- Table tennis
- Othersports
- NFL
- NBA
- NHL
- US Streamers
- MMA
- WWE

Dark / Light mode

Oct 9,2026 07:34 PM IST

Woeful England vow to fight back

facebook

twitter

Settings

Change Font Size

A A
Change Language

हिंदी | Hindi
Focus on Story

Select Language

Languages
हिंदी | Hindi

Dark / Light mode

Featured Links
Featured Sports
- Cricket
- Football
- Formula 1
- Tennis
- Hockey
- Golf
- Badminton
More Sports
- Kabaddi
- Boxing
- Athletics
- Chess
- Swimming
- Shooting
- Wrestling
- Table tennis
- Othersports
More from NDTV
- NDTV
- Business
- Hindi
- Movies
- Cricket
- Health
- Food
- Tech
- Auto
- Apps
- Trains

Cricket

Scores
Series
- All Series
- India vs West Indies 2026
- New Zealand vs India, 2026/27
- India vs Sri Lanka 2026/27
- WPL 2027
- ICC Cricket World Cup 2027
Fixtures
Results
News
Photos
Videos
Features
Teams
More
- Players
- Venues
- ICC Rankings
- Test Championship

arrow-down reddit snapchat twitter facebook comments email printer search bell top-nav reddit-fill snapchat-fill twitter-fill facebook-fill share whatsapp-fill bookmark arrow-rgt arrow-next arrow-up refresh close link cog star book zap cricket football tennis formula-1 badminton hockey golf boxing ndtv-n check left-arrow right-arrow

Live Cricket Matches

Cricket Matches
Football Matches
All Matches

India Matches

IPL 2026

Football Matches

Cricket Matches
Football Matches
All Matches

ISL

EPL

All Matches

Cricket Matches
Football Matches
All Matches

India Matches

EPL

2nd T20I, West Indies in India, 5 T20I Series, 2026 at Ranchi, Oct 9, 2026

Play In Progress

notify

India

64/1 (5.0)

West Indies

Yet To Bat

West Indies elected to field

CRR: 12.80
3rd T20I, West Indies in India, 5 T20I Series, 2026 at Indore, Oct 11, 2026

notify

notify

India

West Indies

Sun, Oct 11, 2026 - 7:00 PM IST
4th T20I, West Indies in India, 5 T20I Series, 2026 at Hyderabad, Oct 14, 2026

notify

notify

India

West Indies

Wed, Oct 14, 2026 - 7:00 PM IST
5th T20I, West Indies in India, 5 T20I Series, 2026 at Bengaluru, Oct 17, 2026

notify

notify

India

West Indies

Sat, Oct 17, 2026 - 7:00 PM IST
1st T20I, West Indies in India, 5 T20I Series, 2026 at Lucknow, Oct 6, 2026

India

172/2 (14.4)

West Indies

171 (19.1)

India beat West Indies by 8 wickets
3rd ODI, West Indies in India, 3 ODI Series, 2026 at New Chandigarh, Oct 3, 2026

India

351/7 (50.0)

West Indies

352/5 (48.2)

West Indies beat India by 5 wickets
Final, Asian Games Men’s T20I, 2026 at Nisshin, Oct 3, 2026

Pakistan

192/6 (20.0)

India

211/6 (20.0)

India beat Pakistan by 19 runs

Sports Home Cricket News Woeful England vow to fight back

Story ProgressBack to home

Woeful England vow to fight back

England captain Paul Collingwood promised home fans his team will bounce back in the World Twenty20 after being handed a cricketing lesson by South Africa.

Written by Agence-France Presse
Updated: June 13, 2009 08:14 am IST

Read Time: 3 min

Nottingham:

England captain Paul Collingwood promised home fans his team will bounce back in the World Twenty20 after being handed a cricketing lesson by South Africa.

The Proteas bowled with fire to inflict a morale-sapping defeat on the hosts by seven wickets in their first Super Eights match at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

England were shot out for 111 after electing to take first strike on good batting wicket, a target the South Africans took their time to achieve with 10 balls to spare.

"You will only defend a total like that one in 10 times," said Collingwood. "We did not get off to a great start and never really got a partnership going to get us up to a total we could defend.

"The wicket was playing well and you would need everything going in your favour to defend that total.

"We were beaten by a side who set an example in the field, there were diving catches and they put pressure on the batsmen."

England have endured a mixed campaign so far, shocked by the Netherlands before pulling together to enter the second round with an emphatic win over Pakistan.

England must now win both their remaining games against defending champions India at Lord's on Sunday and the West Indies at the Oval on Monday to ensure their place in the semi-finals.

Collingwood admitted it was not the ideal start to the Super Eights, but was confident the hosts will fight back to make a mark in the tournament.

"It has been a roller-coaster ride so far," he said. "We need to go out there against India and get our confidence going.

"We are in a tough group but we believe we have the guys who can win in this competition.

"We will try to get the belief going again over the next couple of days."

A sell-out crowd of 18,000 at Trent Bridge were stunned as English wickets fell like nine pins with young left-arm seamer Wayne Parnell finishing with three for 14.

Owais Shah was the lone Englishman to withstand the Proteas' onslaught with 38 off 33 balls after four of the top seven batsmen managed only four runs between them.

All the six bowlers used by Smith were among the wickets, with Kallis and Roelof van der Merwe supporting Parnell with two scalps each.

England crashed to 25-3 by the sixth over in an inspired display by the South Africans in the field.

Albie Morkel bowled the first maiden over of the tournament that also included the wicket of Kevin Pietersen, but was not called upon to bowl a second over as the others took care of the England batsmen.

The only consolation for England was that their bowlers kept the South African batsmen at the crease till the 19th over before man of the match Jacques Kallis saw the Proteas home with 57 not out.