England opener Phil Salt mentioned the convincing eight-wicket victory over the West Indies of their Tremendous Eight conflict has given his facet “confidence and momentum” on the proper time within the T20 World Cup after a chaotic run within the occasion’s group stage. Salt performed a serious hand within the win right here, racing his strategy to an unbeaten 87 off 47 balls because the defending champions replied to the house workforce’s 180/4 with 181/2 in 17.3 overs.
“It has been a really stop-start (match) for us. We had a hiccup in opposition to Australia after which, the rain out in opposition to Scotland. It did not actually really feel like we performed a lot cricket up up to now,” Salt mentioned within the post-match press meet.
“I really feel in match cricket, you want a little bit of confidence and momentum on the proper time and you’ll want to hold constructing on it. So, to get a win in opposition to the hosts provides us the primary push in that route,” he added.
The stats would present that Salt made his runs at a strike-rate in extra of 185, however the right-hander needed to knuckle down a bit after the short dismissals of Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali earlier than opening up once more.
Salt mentioned he was eyeing the precise second to assault the West Indies bowlers.
“It was extra about me batting by, as soon as Jos bought out, I used to be all the time going to type of play the anchor position, particularly after we despatched Moeen because the lefty.
“I feel it was about me simply batting by that interval and ready for my time to strike,” he famous.
The 27-year-old Welshman switched to prime gear within the sixteenth over bowled by Romario Shepherd, smashing 30 runs off the pacer to seal the chase.
“Clearly, Shepherd getting back from that finish was my time to drag the set off. At the back of my head I did, (visualise it) however I did not vocalise it to Jonny (Bairstow, his batting associate). I did not need him to say no.
“I really feel like they have such good spinners they usually’ve bowled very well by the center, so, I felt like the primary sniff I bought, I needed to take that likelihood,” he added.
Salt additionally lauded pacer Jofra Archer and leg-spinner Adil Rashid for limiting the West Indies to a sub-200 whole.
“I feel we bowled very well coming right here for the primary time. I feel we might have positively taken 180. We had some actually good plans and we saved a couple of of their important guys quiet.
“So, I feel from Jofra and Rash (Rashid) that is a very skilled, expert little bit of studying the sport after which the execution,” mentioned Salt.
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