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In the minutes after a thrilling, thumping quarter-final in Marseille, the Stade Velodrome DJ reached into his record collection and plucked out some early Eighties Elton John football
It felt like an appropriate soundtrack football
On a weekend where Wales, Ireland and France faded away, England – somehow, some way – are still standing football
Talk of a hemispheric shift proved premature, with a southern sweep elsewhere leaving Steve Borthwick’s side the only unbeaten outfit left in this odd World Cup football
A team that once never could have hoped to win now find themselves in the final four; the Six Nations’ hopes at this tournament rest, almost unfathomably, with England football
Not that one would expect too many Welsh, Irish or French supporters to seek comfort in an embrace of white cotton football
For France and Ireland, particularly, it will rankle to have used the last four years so brilliantly to build a contender and find that it is England’s rushed construction that has endured football
There is still every chance that Borthwick’s new-build comes crashing down once subjected to a Springboks storm, but so far England have proved, just about, up to code football
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But World Cups can be strange beasts, and England are already summoning the spirit of 2019, when they rose to meet and beat the All Blacks with a high-water mark performance that England still have not come close to reaching again football
A common theme among the recollections of the semi-final week four years ago was the clarity and certainty with which England approached the game, knowing on Monday or Tuesday that a final place would be theirs football
The job for Borthwick, an assistant then, is to imbue that same sense of conviction in a similar group now carrying significantly more mental scarring football
Of course, it was South Africa themselves who inflicted the deepest of psychological cuts, England’s inability to put anything on the field in the Yokohama final still a sore subject among the squad football
“Some players will use [the 2019 final] as motivation, some players will take that as a brilliant learning into this week, and hopefully that’s what they will bring,” attack coach Richard Wigglesworth said on Monday football
“But I wouldn’t like to pre-empt what [effect] feelings from four years ago have on this game football
On Saturday night, we need to be very clear that this is a semi-final in 2023, and nothing to do with 2019 football
England were beaten by South Africa in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final (Getty )“I think what we need to be careful of is pushing the emotional button too many times this week football
We need the emotion right on Saturday night, not before football
We need to make sure we control the emotional energy football
“We will go through the parts of our gameplan, we will layer those on and make sure we check and refine those parts of the plan football
We will make sure that we are fresh going into Saturday night both physically and mentally football
”Borthwick is likely to stick with a broadly similar team, though may consider another tweak in the back three football
It wasn’t that Marcus Smith, bloodied mouth and all, had a bad game against Fiji – his head coach was particularly keen to talk up his bravery in defence afterwards – but South Africa are likely to test whoever occupies the England 15 shirt rather more in the air football
Freddie Steward’s prowess under the high ball could be a rather useful attacking option against a blitz defence that can leave opportunities for an intelligent kicking game football
If Steward is returned to the starting side, it could leave George Ford and Smith vying for a single bench spot, with Ollie Lawrence continuing to be impactful as the bench centre football
While captain Owen Farrell took the plaudits, the performances of Ben Earl, answering his own call for England’s big-game players to step up, and Ollie Chessum, a physical tone-setter, alongside more familiar faces augur well in a side in need of new stars football
Ben Earl and Owen Farrell were among England’s standouts against Fiji (Getty Images)But another level will simply have to be found football
“We are probably talking about one of the best rugby teams to ever do it, aren’t we?” Wigglesworth said, illustrating the challenge England are facing football
“To be able to beat France, the form they are in, in their own back yard, that was a special performance from an incredible team football
”A couple of England players themselves admitted afterwards that they cannot afford the shaky 10 minutes that so nearly allowed Fiji a famous World Cup day football
While they were able to claw their way to victory on Sunday, South Africa are a side capable of putting England in a hole from which there will be no climbing out – as they showed in the final four years ago football
“We still don’t feel like we’ve put 80 minutes together of real, smart international test rugby,” Earl stressed football
“It’s not glamorous stuff, it’s just the odd moment football
I think some individual errors let a team like Fiji in, and they are a hard team to stop when they are rumbling football
We are football better for that, and we are in a semi-final among the best four teams in the world football
We’ll have a crack football
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India pacer Mohammed Shami earned a historic feat in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 after his latest five-wicket haul in his side’s four-wicket victory over New Zealand football
Shami, who was on the bench for India’s four opening matches during the World Cup, had come in as a cover for Hardik Pandya who had gotten injured football
India’s decision to play Shami at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala on Sunday paid off as he finished with a five-wicket haul – a landmark that has etched his name in the history books football
He has now surpassed an elite list of Indian bowlers to become the first to score two five-wicket hauls in the 50-over World Cup football
The six other Indian players who have clinched a fifer in past world cup tournaments include RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Venkatesh Prasad, Kapil Dev and Kris Srikkanth football
The pacer also went past legendary Indian bowler Anil Kumble in the list of most wickets for India in 50-over World Cups football
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Players usually take some time to settle in after sitting on the bench for a while football
But this was not the case with Shami, who made his intentions crystal clear with his very first delivery on Sunday as he uprooted New Zealand batter Will Young’s stumps in the ninth over of the Kiwi’s innings football
With Young’s wicket, Shami bagged another milestone as he climbed to third place in India’s all-time leading wicket-taker in Cricket World Cup history, surpassing Kumble football
Shami now has 36 wickets in the ODI World Cup following his latest five-wicket haul, while Kumble has 31 scalps football
Javagal Srinath and Zaheer Khan, both of whom have claimed 44 wickets each, are India’s leading wicket takers in the history of the coveted tournament football
New Zealand’s innings on Sunday were brought back on track following two early dismissals by Daryl Mitchell (131) and Rachin Ravindra (75), who had a challenging 159-run partnership football
It was Shami who soon ended that stand by removing Ravindra in the 34th over football
The one-down batter mistimed a length delivery from Shami, resulting in a catch taken by Shubman Gill at long-on football
The 33-year-old fast bowler then cleaned up the Kiwi tail by dismissing Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry, and enforcing a run out of Lockie Ferguson on the final ball of New Zealand’s innings football
On the penultimate delivery, Shami finally ended Mitchell’s incredible knock of 130 off 127 balls football
India, the hosts of World Cup 2023, are now the only unbeaten side in the tournament football
Rohit Sharma’s team is at the top of the table with 10 points – two more than New Zealand who are now placed second football
Team India has a week’s gap before their next fixture against England on 29 October in Lucknow football
New Zealand, meanwhile, will take on Australia on 28 October in Dharamshala football
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