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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Gallan

England beat Italy by 24 runs: T20 World Cup cricket – as it happened

England's Jacob Bethell shakes hands with Italy's Justin Mosca after the match.
England's Jacob Bethell shakes hands with Italy's Justin Mosca after the match. Photograph: Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters

Match report

Simon Burnton’s piece from Eden Gardens has landed, so I’ll get outta here.

As he says, it was a proper scare for England though they’re through to the Super Eights, which is all that matters in the end.

Well done Italy. Hope to see more of them in future tournaments.

Next up is Harry Brook:

We haven’t played our best cricket but we’ve made it through, so can be happy about that.

We haven’t managed to string along the scores we’d like as a batting unit, but that’s T20 cricket. We have to just keep on being brave.

I thought we fielded excellentaly and bowled nicely as well. I never had any doubt with Sam and Jamie bowling at the death.

We’ve played in Sri Lanka before the tournament, so we have to go back and do what we’ve done. We have to be brave. We haven’t quite been brave enough throughout this tournament.

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