After a tense four-wicket win over Sri Lanka that puts England into the semi-finals, all the focus will rightly be on Ben Stokes and his match-winning innings in Sydney.
It is a ground that he has enjoyed playing at this year having collected scores of 66 and 60 in the drawn Ashes Test here back in January. Maybe that recent success helped him play his most fluent and most influential T20 knock for England in more than two years.
Perhaps the situation was ideally-suited to his skills and with Dawid Malan unable to bat due to his injury, it left a very clear and defined role for Stokes to fulfil so brilliantly. As good as it was, it wasn’t a classic of the usual T20 variety because the pitch and the opposition didn’t allow it to be.
