It said plenty about the state of England’s T20 World Cup campaign that, until this morning, their most important innings of the tournament had been played by Lorcan Tucker of Ireland.
At last, in Brisbane, however, their own batters came to the party as half-centuries from Jos Buttler and Alex Hales teed-up a clutch 20-run win over New Zealand that keeps their title hopes alive and leaves the race for semi-final places going down to the wire.
