The bedrock of England’s success since their white-ball rebirth in 2015 has been their powerful batting line-up. They have smashed the record for the highest ODI total three times in the past six years, most recently against the Netherlands in Amsterdam this year when they posted 498 for four. That game saw two members of this T20 World Cup squad – Buttler and Liam Livingstone – score a combined 228 runs from just 98 balls.
In 2017, England lost to Pakistan in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy after being rolled for 211 on a used pitch in Cardiff. Even in the 2019 World Cup, they lost three group matches on their way to the final.
There’s also the fact Stokes, the hero of that 2019 World Cup win, is back in form with the bat just in the nick of time. “He’s a good man to have in a tough situation,” said Wood. “That’s another moment in his career that when you look back you can say when the team needed him he was the man to be counted on.”India await in the last four
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