Another win, and if England emerged from the Wankhede after their fraught victory against Nepal on Sunday without much of a strut to their step, they did so with two points in their pockets and the bandwagon still rolling. They have now won 11 of their 12 completed T20s in the past year and in their most recent two games they have been reminded that winning ugly can be more powerful than winning easy.
“I wouldn’t have wanted it to be as close as it was to be honest,” Jacob Bethell said. “But this is my first World Cup. Watching previous World Cups you want to get those little tricky games, to get a feel for them and just know you’ve got the confidence to get over the line in them. It’s not going to do us any harm to go through that.”
