England fall just short in high scoring semi-final thriller

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It's been hit away into the offside.

It's been hit away for six.

But it is not quite enough.

India win by seven runs.

It is India's game.

They are heading to the final of the T20 World Cup.

England had home.

So India are heading to the T20 World Cup final

to face New Zealand on Sunday in Armored Abadda

for a game that saw one shy of 500 runs scored

on a sweltering mum by evening.

The flattest of flat pitches.

India heading 253 for seven.

And England 246 for seven in response

with Jacob Bethel scoring 105 or 48.

But ultimately his efforts in vain

as India make it through to the final

of the T20 World Cup.

A night of high drama, high run scoring.

But ultimately success for the tournament hosts and favorites.

So much to reflect on.

So many celebrations for India.

Who have an opportunity to do what no side has done.

I win the trophy for a third time and retain the trophy as well.

And no host has ever won the T20 World Cup.

So much on the line for India.

Who have now booked their place in the final in Armored Abadda

against a New Zealand side who will have watched on

as fascinated as the rest of us by this extraordinary game of cricket.

Stephen Finn Ash is winning fastball or alongside.

He has his Abyssaic John John while all get reaction from both sides shortly.

But Stephen first of all.

England at the halfway stage set 254 for victory.

It always felt like it was going to be very, very difficult.

But goodness me, they gave it a good go.

Yeah, gave it a good go.

And I think you look at the fielding.

Ashhopper tells two catches were a significant turning point.

And a big difference between the two teams was that catching Harry Brook's drop.

And the reprieve of Sandra Samson on 15 and him going on to make the runs that he did

within the context of that first innings meant that India posted

an unbelievably challenging total.

But the way that England went about chasing it.

Again, the opening partnership faltered and didn't make the most of the

powerplay, Jacob Bethel coming in at number four today.

That played quite stupendous, not really 105 from 48.

And people batted around him with cameos from Butler,

Jack's, Curran at the end, all threatened to drag that total in.

And it felt as though England were in the game all the way through that

second innings. It just felt as though they were within touching distance.

But the new factor in the Jasperic Bummer effect.

And the 18th over that he ball that only went for six.

So only go for 8.25 and over as he did today versus what everyone else has gone for.

Again, it was a great effort on his part to a great, great fast baller.

So yeah, England will leave this game with disappointment and think of what might have been.

Had that catch been taken inside that first power play and how different it might have been.

But ultimately India handed the pressure very well.

They did and there was pressure.

England did a brilliant job at applying that.

But in the end,

though they got close, not quite close enough.

Winning the toss, electing to field first, England.

And though the highest losing chase total in T20 International Cricket,

that makes sense. The highest total in the second innings in T20 International Cricket,

unsuccessful, if you see what I'm saying.

73 boundaries, the most ever seen in any T20 World Cup match.

The stats will keep on coming in.

We'll get some reaction for you shortly.

But England winning the toss, bolding first.

Getting the early wicket of Abhishek Sharma second over for nine,

then Sanju Sampson dropped.

The clear of the match awards.

He is player of the match.

Speaking of division, none above and Sanju Sampson for his 89 from 42.

Sanju back to back half centuries, back to back clear.

The match performances in a World Cup semi-final.

What does this mean?

Yeah, it feels really great to be honest.

I kind of knew that I got some

form going from the last game.

So I thought I need to continue.

I think it's not easy to find form at the crucial games for your country.

So I thought, big game, I need to make most out of how I'm betting.

So I gave myself an extra time.

I, I think, calculated my innings a bit.

I prepared really well.

And I think things came off nicely.

Got a bit lucky to start off.

And then, yeah, I think I just wanted to carry on.

I think knowing playing in one today,

we know that no score is stoppable here.

So I just wanted to get as much as possible.

Runs as possible, even 250.

Looked like.

Chaseable here.

And England played really well.

I think all credit goes to how they batted.

And we really had a great semi-final.

You talked a little bit about how your innings progress there.

How much more different is it chasing?

Well, as you did against the West Indies.

And now setting this total up for your team.

Yeah, as I told before, I think you need to.

I think, as it, as the conditions, I think you know,

we have played a lot of cricket here in one today.

As I said before, chasing becomes a bit easier here.

They won the toss, put us into bat.

So we knew after the way we batted,

I think the way myself and I shan batted,

the partnership which we had for after Abhishek got out.

I thought that I think 250 should be, I think, possible here.

So I think that's what we were talking about

in the dressing room as well.

So yeah, very happy how the team turned up today.

And all credit goes to Jaspreet Gumbra.

I think the world class bowler, once in a generation,

bowler, I think that's what he delivered today.

I think this should go to him, actually.

So I think if he didn't bow that way and the death of us,

I think I would not be standing here.

So all credit goes to the bowlers,

how they back themselves in the tough conditions.

Spoken as a true leader.

What does this crowd mean to you guys tonight?

Oh, I think as you have witnessed here,

sir, I think it's an unbelievable feeling

to play in one today right from childhood.

I think the way people support, actually,

both the Indian team and also the England team,

I think there are real supporters of the cricket as well.

So really enjoy playing here,

but I think we wanted to put in a positive result for them,

but very happy results actually made them happy today.

I know a number of fans and supporters will be asking 97 and 89.

You haven't quite gotten the 100.

Does that matter to you?

I think not at all, sir.

I think 100.

I think you know, 100.

Actually, you can't actually score 100.

It actually comes in the process of you.

Actually, you can't actually, it's not a test game.

It's not a ODA game where you can go up and down,

up and down once you've got the start.

You're betting first, there is no other way.

You just have to keep going hard, hard, hard.

And once you end up on the right side,

who knows, I think, which amount of runs I'm getting.

So I'm very happy to get whatever I'm getting

and very happy to contribute on the winning side for my country.

And the country is very happy for you, Sanju.

Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you very well done.

Thank you.

I'll say to you, Samson.

Play the match for India having scored 89.

I like that question.

Have a check, John Waller.

Well, you've scored 97, not out.

And then 89.

What about the 100?

Oh, but, you know, he rode his luck early on

with that drop catch on 15,

but played brilliantly well.

And India, they were so strong with a back goodness

that the number of runs we scored,

seen scored.

It was astonishing.

Yeah, I mean, I don't remember witnessing a game like this

to be honest in a World Cup semi-final.

And it went close and you need something like this.

You want a game to go down to the wire.

You want the game to go back close

for the tournament, for the supporters,

just for overall, for the cricket.

And it was an absolute sight to be honest.

What a game we had.

And this will be aged in people's memory,

not just in one career, I think, around the world

who support cricket, who are cricket fans,

cricket lovers.

They will remember this game for a very, very long time, Henry.

Well, it's immense privilege to have been here to watch it.

I have to say, and the fans that are beginning to drift out

heading towards Marine Drive

will be parting long into the night,

not just because they've seen an India win,

because they've seen an absolute feast of runs scoring as well.

And there is no greater currency.

And in this part of the world, in T20 cricket,

than the currency of the ball flying over the boundary.

And we saw the ball going to all parts.

There's 34 times the ropes were cleared,

a record for a T20 World Cup match,

just incredible hitting everywhere you looked.

But it's so often, Stephen,

we look for certainty and narrative at the end of a tour

or a tournament where you can say,

well, they lost and they didn't get through,

because they were failings.

And I remember having that conversation with you,

after England were eliminated in Guyana

from the last T20 World Cup.

But they can leave tonight with their heads held pretty high, I think.

Yeah, and I think within the context of that World Cup,

they played in 2024.

They played poorly throughout the tournament, didn't they?

They never looked like themselves.

They didn't grow through the tournament.

And they didn't have a particular style of play, it didn't feel.

Whereas the way that England have come through this tournament,

they've those white ball series against Sri Lanka before,

winning both of those, stumbling through the group stage

a little bit, but still doing enough to get through,

which is all you have to do, winning all three games in the super eights.

And then losing here in a really high scoring game

to the strongest by far team in the tournament.

It's no shameful way to exit a world tournament.

So the inquisition that was inevitable at the end of that last World Cup,

last T20 World Cup that we covered,

that two years ago or less than two years ago,

18 months ago, I don't feel the same here.

I feel like England can be really proud about the way that they played.

They just really regret that one drop catch from Harry Brook,

that literally is the turning point in the game.

Do you think they win the game if he takes that catch, Steve?

Well, I don't necessarily think they win it.

It just changes the dynamic of it, doesn't it?

The way that India were able to control the way that they sent Shivam

Dubay up to bat against the wrist spin and the left arm spin of Dorson.

It means that it doesn't afford India the luxury to be able to

move the chess pieces as they want to in that first inning.

If you take early wickets, it puts pressure on that middle order

to have to build an innings and it doesn't allow them to play with the freedom that they did

that drags them to the total of 253.

It probably settles beyond 200 still,

but a lot closer to the 200 mark than the 250 mark.

And in an instance like that,

it just means that everything has to go absolutely perfectly for England.

In the second innings, for them to chase it.

And you have to factor in Jasperic Bumra,

but that actually I bet tells two catches that he took

of Harry Brook and then Will Jacks, wasn't it?

The two outstanding catches of people who have had excellent tournaments,

probably England's two best players in this tournament with the bat in hand

until that Jacob Bethel innings today.

Was the difference in the game, I feel?

Yeah, on such moments, games can turn.

Ava Shekhan, there was just a feeling around the ground as that catch went down.

Oh, this could be problematic.

And then 89 of 42 balls really did emphasize that from Sanchez Epson.

Yeah, I think we will talk a lot about the boundaries and the fours and the sixes

and the amount of run being scored in this game.

But I think this game was one because of the feeling.

Because of those two catches, as Finney mentioned earlier,

Akshapa Tell and the ground feeling.

I think England at least have given seven to eight runs through Missfield,

which India didn't.

India were excellent in the field.

They took all their chances.

Even the final run out from Hardik Pandya to get rid of Jacob Bethel.

They're all small things, but it makes such a huge impact in the game.

And also a special mention to Suryakumarayada for his captaincy,

the way he used Jaspit Bumra.

And to have that courage to have two different bowlers bowl the last two hours,

and the way he just used his resources, I think he did an excellent work with his captaincy as well.

Yeah, and little moments like that, and ensuring that the extras are minimized,

and in a high scoring game, it could be the small margins that really do get you over the line.

There were 12 extras in India's innings 13 in England,

but in that sense, it wasn't too much of a difference,

but it was just little moments in the field that you do feel.

There was a significant difference that did help India get over the line.

At no point in the game were England favourites according to win predictor,

and for most of the innings in the run chase, it was around about 95 to 98 percent in India's

favour. So the fact that England got us close as they did seven runs,

the margin of victory in the end is a remarkable credit to England, who lost early wickets,

Phil Salt for five, and then as well as that, they saw Harry Brook out for just seven,

38 for two at that point. Josh Butler scored 25 off 17, but never really looked fluid.

But they kept on going. Will Jack's Tom Banton with good contributions,

sort of keeping that momentum going. Sam Current quite managed to find his rhythm with 18 or 14,

but we will get more into the conversation around Jacob Bethel shortly, with the second

higher score at this World Cup, only behind the 100 that Canada Samara scored against.

The finalist New Zealand, the 110 that he scored, but 105 from Jacob Bethel is an astonishing

effort. It has to be said, he played supremely well, given the fact that the pressure was on,

the wickets had fallen, and that he was able to keep that momentum going with 105 off 48 deliveries,

only run out in the end scrambling. That single that he was trying to make into two, and he couldn't

quite do it, and in the end it was the run out that saw the end of his innings, but it was a brilliant,

brilliant performance from Bethel, and 280 runs in the tournament. Of course, a big contribution of

those coming today, but absolutely sensational effort from Jacob Bethel. We're just waiting to hear

from the captains. I can see at the far end of the ground, Harry Brook and Surya Kumayana

are getting ready to get stuck into the post match presentation alongside Ian Bishop, so we

will be hearing reaction shortly. We'll also hear from Brendan McCullum, some staging

and head coach's future. Well, I think there'll still be question marks around it, but it's not

quite as decisive a result in this game, well, the other really to tell us what that future

will necessarily look like, but that's perhaps a conversation for another day, because there is

so much that I just, from this game, Prokashra Kanker is going to join us in just a moment as well,

but our semi-finals are concluded. South Africa have been beaten by New Zealand by nine wickets,

India of beaten England by seven runs, and so it is a New Zealand India final to be played in

armament about. Here is Harry Brook alongside Ian Bishop. Yeah, from the captains now, congratulations to

India. They progress to the final of this ICC men's D20 World Cup win by seven runs. Harry Brook,

England's captain is here with me. Harry just on reflection, if we start from the top,

conditions here look very good. Just nod you whatsoever as you reflect on the toss and choosing to

feel as you did as a team back in 2020 for what are your thoughts? Yeah, we just thought that

there might have been a little bit of hold early on with the pitch being fresh, and we're expecting

a little bit more spin in the first andnings, but yeah, it's led on to the bat now, so they played

extremely well, and all of our lad should be so proud of the way that we've played tonight and

throughout this competition. It didn't look as though the expectation of your standards in the

field where you would have loved it tonight, would that be correct? Yeah, absolutely, and I'll hold

my hands up and say that I made a big mistake there, dropping Samsung, and yeah, catches with

matches, that old famous phrase, and unfortunately, it just didn't go our way in the field tonight,

another day, it comes off. From a bowling perspective, how did you see it? Whether there are

anythings on reflection that you would have been hoping that it would have gone better with the ball?

Ah, just misexecution here and there. We probably didn't execute as well as we could have done.

The Indian batters are some of the best batters in the world, and if you misexecute to some of them,

it goes out of the park, so we probably didn't execute as well as we could have done,

but like I say, we gave it a red dot crack, and unfortunately, we were on the wrong side.

Yeah, you were in it for a long time there, with the batter almost right down to the end,

and Jacob Beffel. Yeah, he was absolutely unbelievable, I think he's going to earn some serious

money in his career, and he's going to have a hell of a career with England, and yeah, he showed

the world how good he is tonight. Unfortunately, we were on the wrong side, but that ending is an

extremely big positive to take away from this competition, and to see him go out there in the

manner that he did, taking it to them from ball one, and like I said, showing the world what he can do.

As you reflect on the tournament as a whole, having had to go over to Sri Lanka and be here,

come back here, what are your thoughts? I think we had a good tournament to be honest. Like I said,

a second ago, we should be extremely proud of the way that we played. I said the other day,

we're never out of games, and that proved against tonight, chasing 250.

Other teams could have just folded and crumbled away, but we stuck to it the whole game,

and we gave it a red up crack, like I said, and unfortunately, we were on the wrong side of it tonight.

Harry, thank you very much for your time and all the best as you go forward.

Thank you. Cheers.

Big thanks to England's captain, Harry Brooke, Suryokamai Yadav.

Will join us.

Sky, what's the overriding feeling heading into the final now against New Zealand?

I mean, it's an unbelievable feeling. Obviously, playing in India, leading such a wonderful side,

and World Cup happening in India, going to Ahmedabad, playing that final, I think it's a special feeling

for all the boys. From a batting perspective and the way that your team went about,

it's Sanju Samson, etc. I think he knew what he wanted to do as soon as he went into bat,

even when the cricket fell, he knew the cricket was good, so he kept pressing the pedal,

and the way he batted, I think the team required that from him.

It was all due from all last year, all the hard work he was doing and it was a special knock today.

Did you see 250 as being where you needed to be?

Oh my god, I just told Harry that how much more do we need to score against you guys?

But then at the end of the day, it was a good wicked, the way they batted,

I don't want to take credit away from them as well.

I think they were always in the game, always in the chase,

but the way Bumra, Ashdeep and all the other bowlers, they pulled the game, I think it was unbelievable.

Sanju Samson, when he was here a few minutes ago,

said he would gladly have given the man of the match medal to Jaspreet Bumra.

Absolutely, I mean, you know what, how capable he is, what he's done over the years for India,

and he did the same thing today, braised his hand again,

showed character, pulled the game away from them, and I think it was a special bowling performance.

Aksha Patel's catching?

Oh my god, I think we need to give a little bit credit to our fielding coach,

as well, Tee Dilip, I think the way he's been taking the boys during all the practice sessions,

having that fun, fun, fun sessions, and I think boys are responding really well,

taking the time, even after their personal skill sessions, personal milestones,

to do that extra bit for the team, I think that's been shown on the field as well.

You look, it looked as though you went a long way to keeping a left-right combination,

a ship I'm doobay, came ahead of you, your thoughts on that?

I think he, in this team, I think till number three, everything is settled.

We didn't want to change anything, but then as soon as we saw

Rashid bowling from one end, I think doobay was a perfect matchup,

even if I would have got a 50 or 100 in the last game,

if it was needed for the team, it was a perfect call today.

Got title at the end there, were you nervous?

Very nervous, if someone would have checked my heart rate,

it would have been easily 161, 75 plus, but then it's part of the game,

wonderful game, wonderful semi-finals, all behind now, very happy to go into the finals.

And this crowd here, how much of an energy push did they give you here at the Wankery?

I think the moment we entered, the moment we started warming up,

it was already 75-80% full, it says it all, that they badly wanted India to do well today,

even though we batted first, I think they were really happy with the way we did.

Very happy, hopeful, hopeful we gave them a good show, a good game,

into the finals, very happy feeling, and I'm sure everyone will be excited as well.

Yeah, final thought on that in the final, defending champions.

Definitely in India, but going for the title, there will be pressure, there will be nerves,

but then boys and the soul support staff will be excited as well.

Sky, thank you very much for your time.

Congratulations on getting to the final and all the best once you get there.

Thank you, cheers.

Thoughts for the two captains, chatting to Ian Bishop, put down the far end of the ground,

but we'll get onto some of the individual England performances shortly across the tournament.

But what about Jacob Beffel, who, what, six months ago, had not scored a professional

hundred. All the conversation was about the fact that, oh, you know, who's this guy that's

getting all of these opportunities? He's not scored a hundred in professional cricket. He's now

joined a very, very small group of people, Stephen Finn, to have scored hundreds across all three

international formats. He is some talent. Well, the second England player in a week to join that

club, Harry Brook, doing it just last week at that 100 against Sri Lanka. And today, Jacob Beffel,

does it at 22 years old, having not made a hundred for anyone but England in professional cricket?

It's quite ridiculous, really. But the player, the management and the selectors and the ECB told us

that they saw when he was selected some thought in an accelerated manner, 18 months or so ago,

to play in the England team, is being fully vindicated with some of the innings that we're seeing.

He's calm under pressure. He's calculated that the way that he manages those situations belies

the years that he actually has playing the professional game. And he looks someone who is just

going to play international cricket as long as he wants to. And the way that he speaks as well,

he seems to me to be a future England captain. You've spoken to him a number of times, Henry, and

I'm always impressed with the balanced answers that he gives. And he's got an incredible career ahead

of him in all formats of the game. And as Harry Brooks said, Abhishek, he's going to earn an awful lot

of money. But yeah, goodness me, it was a statement. The world of the modern cricket now, honestly.

I told Finney, I tapped him on the shoulder and said to him, I'm not sure if that's what he's

eyeing for. Yes, you will make a lot of money if you keep playing cricket like that. And we all know

that in modern day, the amount of franchise cricket there is. But I mean, we can see how special he is.

And to have such a calm head over that shoulder at such a young age, you don't see that sort of

players very often. They come in, you know, it takes time for players like that to come to any side.

You talk about India, you talk about England, you talk about Australia. And England, I think they've

done an exceptional job to see that talent early and then expedited everything for him and put

him in that space where he can mature a lot quicker, being among some of the best, being among the

guidance of the likes of root and everyone else. And which has helped him immensely, you can see

already the way his career is progressing, the way he's maturing in all formats and what a talent.

And the way he batted today, it honestly is one of the most specialenings you will see in this

format for a very long time. Yeah, it was a brilliant knock. Really was 105 or 48. What about the

report card for others across this tournament then? Because it's been good from some, less good

from others, I think it's fair to say. Will Jackson's been superb with bat and ball. 226 runs at

average of 56 with the bat and then with a ball more than useful with his offspin as well with nine

wickets. Stephen, he's been a real bright point for him. Yeah, fantastic and playing a role that he's

not particularly used to doing or not used to doing at all in domestic cricket. In franchise cricket,

he opens the batting or bats in the top three and is very useful and more better than useful.

He's an outstanding player at the top of the order and he's had to adapt his game to suit the

circumstances here and has done it brilliantly, fulfilling that all round of roll down at number

seven, asked to come in and be selfless with the bat and ball tricky over as well in the power play

and he put the 20th over today as well for England. So, yeah, an outstanding series for him.

I would imagine he still has aspirations to bat right at the very top of the order for England,

as that is where he truly does his best work. But in a role that he's not that familiar with,

he's been outstanding in this World Cup and probably on balance for performances consistently

throughout the tournament has been England's best player and that's backed up by the four-player

of the match performances. Somebody that has struggled quite badly is Joss Butler who at 35

years old now, he won't have many ICC tournaments left in his career, but yeah, by his standards,

Abhishek, a really disappointing showing. Eight matches, just 87 runs scored an average of just

under 11 and a high score of 26. I think nobody will be more disappointed than him. We all know

that how how's highest standard he sets for himself and probably he'll never have another tournament

like this in his career and that happens to a lot of great-cricketers, a lot of top-tricketers.

He's been absolutely phenomenal in white ball cricket for England, one of the greatest in white

ball cricket for England, we can easily say that. So that can happen to players and especially in

this format because it comes so thick and fast that you don't really have the time to go and work

your game out in the net or you don't really get a breather because it keeps coming at you and also

you don't have the time to give yourself time because you got to go out there and bat with aggression,

you got to make full use of those six overs when you're batting in the power place. So those

things don't really help when you're out of form in this format, especially. In other formats,

you do have time to spend a bit more time out there in the middle but this format requirements

is a friend and he's not somebody who'll bat for himself. He'll always go out there and try his

best for his team and try and give them a good start. And yeah, he's the first to stand up,

Stephen, you know very well he's somebody that you've played a lot of cricket with to stand up

and say that you know I haven't contributed and I'm really frustrated about it. Well that'll be

the thing that hurts him the most I think. You can take having bad performances but if the team's

winning or you'll find him ways to contribute in different ways but yeah he's runs at the top of

the order of one of the reasons why England is so dangerous in white ball cricket and for him having

not to do that throughout this tournament. As Abhishek said that no one will be more disappointed

than he is. He has had little periods like this throughout his career so does it seem like

an ominous sign for him I don't think so but he's still to me seems motivated to play for England

and has tournaments left in him where he can prepare England to the heights that he's

that he has done in the past so yeah disappointing that no one will be more disappointed than him but

I think more to come from him in the future still. Jafar Archer has had a mixed tournament

a few really encouraging spells but ultimately I think there'll be a little disappointing 11 wickets

taken but an economy rate of close to ten and over I was very expensive in the game today

four overs one for 61 though he'll feel a little outdone by that Sanju Samson was dropped off his

bowling on 15. Is he still the the force that he once was Abhishek do you think? I think yes

but we know that is difficult to bowl in in India on those absolute belters it's hard for any

bowler and the amount of runs will be scored with him bowling in the power play and the back end

he bowls at the two most dangerous times a bowler can bowl so it's always going to be difficult

and with Indian pictures and his pace I just feel that it makes batting a lot easier for

batters to just use his pace yes he does try his slow deliveries and stuff but I just think

yes it's difficult in India but at the same time he he didn't look the best what we have seen

Jafar Archer to be in the past yeah I think that probably feels fair Vinny he's not quite scaled

the heights of the sort of bowler that you could almost bank on in the same way that you could

to a degree with Jasper at Bumra maybe four or five years ago before the injuries yeah it's

really hard to quantify honestly T20 cricket in tournaments like this when you do bowl at the

most tricky times it's so hard to quantify and compare I think Bumra is streets ahead of any

other fast bowler in the world for his awareness his disguise of deliveries his ability to execute

under pressure I think even the other best bowlers in the world there's their level and then

there's Bumra's level which is which is above that so to compare anyone to hear my think is

is unfair would he have wanted more absolutely he'd have wanted to have those couple of match-winning

performances that's what every player dreams of when you come into a world tournament will he look

back at it at some times is he could have used different options yes probably but he did take

where he's in the purple England took 18 or 19 I think they had one today didn't they so 19

throughout the tournament which is the second most of all the teams to to plan the tournament

and he'd have been a big part of that as well so again I think the thing you look at with Joffa

is what's his pace like and his pace when he was boarding his pace on deliveries was still up over

90 miles an hour so yeah there's nothing from an injury perspective and being affected by injuries

that's bothered his pace he will live to regret forever in a day Harry Brooke putting that catch down

I've no doubt what about his tournament just finally in terms of of England contributions because

there was that the one brilliant hundred but I think as a captain Stephen given the winter that

he's had in so many different ways I actually think he's had a pretty good tournament escapeer

I'd agree with that yeah I think the times as well when the team have been under pressure he's

stayed calm and think back to that Nepal game where Nepal should really have won it what did they

need 10 or 12 10 off that last over wasn't it I think and we were there watching it in the 1k

stadium thinking this could be disastrous for Brooke's captaincy after the New Zealand fiasco

after the ashes and he managed to stay calm in that moment he grabbed the ball commanded the situation

made sure that Sam Karin was happy with the plans and Karin executed for him which the captain

has to trust his bowl is in that situation I think he's become more eloquent as a captain throughout

the tournament again you've talked to him quite a lot you you could attest to that I think if

I'm on the money and the innings that he played against Sri Lanka moving up to number three

opening partnership faltering he grabbed that game by the scruff of the neck and scored that

hundred and England improved definitely improved throughout the tournament the white ball series win

both of them both 50 over and T20 against Sri Lanka in the build up to this well cup again is

is a significant thing for him and his captaincy so there's been a lot to like

unfortunately for him the thing that people will remember and the thing that he will remember for

weeks if not months to come is that white cooker ball float in towards him from the back of

Sanju Samson at mid-on and he will wonder and everyone will wonder how didn't he catch that

because it was so simple but it was and you never know what's going through somebody's mind

of wanting their eye line all of those things but but no doubt he will be thinking about that for

for an awfully long time so to wrap things up then England we we sense have had a

a decent enough tournament without necessarily coming to any definitive conclusions about the

direction for for for for for coach and everything else what about the final then because

it's a New Zealand side that come filled with confidence after that nine wicket win

over South Africa and Calcutta and an India side that have got through some near misses and scrapes

but head to head to arm and a bad filled with with the joy of having come through this test

abyssaic yeah I think I think New Zealand will be very confident the way they played against South Africa

it was it was just something you don't really see very often in a semifinal for a team to win with

that much conviction and for India yes if you win a game like this Henry you're always going to be

buzzing with a lot of confidence going into the final the way they won against West Indies and now

winning against England in such a crunch game so again it when you go to the final it all about

who can deliver better on the day yeah we know that there's so much skill in both sides there's

so much talent they've got the depth they've got everything a team needs but it's all boils down to

who can execute their plans better on the day yeah and that's the point isn't it it's on the day

who is going to be able to provide that opportunity to get over the line and play that match winning

performance that's the question Stephen who do you who do you fancy for that final well I fancy

India but New Zealand played such an amazing game against South Africa when they were the underdogs

New Zealanders and their cricket teams seem to love playing in those situations and upsetting

the party the one thing India the players who played in that World Cup final was it two and a half

years ago in armoured a bad when Australia beat them there may be a few bad memories about that

and they'll be very wary of that situation but India are favourites I mean the way that they've

played here the fact that they've got bummer out yeah that India are the favourites but New

Zealand looked really really good in that semi-final and anything can happen it's a game of T20 cricket

someone can have a day out and that wins the game well thanks to Stephen Finn and Abhishek

John John Waller for now let's get some reaction from the England head coach Brendan McCullough must

mean speaking to BBC Sports Matt Henry Brendan some game he tried some it up for me

500 guns in a T20 international semi-final and a World Cup semi-final it's you don't often see

that I thought you know it was an outstanding game of cricket obviously we traveled a little bit

with the ball but you know the conversation that we had at the halfway mark as we felt it was

about 20 above par it wasn't 50 or 60 above par we thought you know if one or two of our guys

were able to get in it was certainly achievable and in the end we came within seven runs of

beating a very good Indian team in their own conditions the most hostile stadium for arguably

in in the world and you know that's it's a fine achievement it's obviously disappointing that we're

not getting a crack in the World Cup final but there's there's a lot to be proud of and

knows as coach and as leaders within the side immensely proud of the fight the fortitude and

the skill and the connectivity that lads head throughout and yeah it wasn't wasn't to be tonight

but we went too far away we've got to we're going to say with an outside you know yes you're

fiercely competing in your district to win but if you are going to be beat make sure you're hard to

be beaten and I thought we were tonight against a good side yeah there were so many moments in the

game are there any in particular you put it down to the fact that you came out on the wrong side

yeah I think to be honest I've been watching India play throughout this World Cup and their

fielding has been I think it's fair to say probably below par for them to come out with two

world class catchers tonight X up tell and then on the Boundary Road was I mean that that was

the separation between the game really one of those that the one on the road goes to sex and

and you got a tie ball game I guess it's it's pretty simple but you know they made big plays and

big moments and and fear played them and but overall I was I was happy with the lads and I've

been happy proud of their campaign right throughout we've seen some special things from Jacob

Bethel and his brief self-art international career how good was that and where does it rank oh look

he's an incredible talent right he's there's a punt taken on on Beth early issues identified as

special player and and a player for the future and sometimes it takes it takes a gamble to try

and introduce someone like that early enough and and be brave enough to do so and you know the

selectors and all the scouts they all they all identified him early and said we think he's

got something at what age we're going to see it we've got no real idea but you know that he's

just continued to grow the more he's come into international cricket and to get a brilliant

hundred like that and a World Cup semi-final and the most hostile ground against the pre-tortimate

favourites this it takes takes the immense amount of skill but also a huge amount of belief in

yourself and and also your tactical acumen and you know then you look back on his hunter he got

it Sydney and an Asher series to come in and to do that he's a special player a lot's been

thrown at him from us in this in this early stage put him in position of capnancy when the team

went to Ireland and he thrived in that even at such a young age and behind the flair and the

bling there's a very serious and committed cricketer who he's throwing his research and his

preparation and then he uses his flair when he gets out on the field so he's got a huge future

and he's a strong leader as a merge with him within the dressing room and that's I think that's

also acknowledgement of Harry's capnancy too he's he's got a lot of young men now who are

believing in the direction this team's heading and they're stepping up and performing and

they're assuming leadership roles within the side and that is the ultimate mark of leadership

I think is allowing those around you to grow and to develop and to feel as if they have

a significant input into into how things run within the within the setup so a huge a huge

positive there as well he I think Brookie's been superb he's obviously had a tough couple of

months but he's a tough lad and his tactical acumen is outstanding and he's a very strong leader

and his best user in front of him but he's certainly he's certainly stepped up in this

tournament and given the sight of real identity what's next for you it's been a long winter

what comes next I only go home watch some hopefully some fast horses and play some average golf and

and sort of allow after what's been a tough demanding but also there's some missed opportunities

but there's a lot of satisfaction about what some of the things that's ever been being achieved

over over the last sort of four or five months as well well do what we're always doing sit back

and reflect and give it the time to land and then start assessing what went well what needs some

improvement what plays do you make to be able to ensure that you keep progressing and developing

as a side so you know I'm enjoying the role enjoying the role across all formats and I'd love

to love to carry that on but over the next couple of weeks it would be a matter of trying to find

the fastest horse and trying to make a few birdies do you expect to be in position when it comes

we've got three months now until England play again do you expect to be head coach of England when

that comes around look I'd like to be I think it's a great job and a great job when I say that

it's because you work in some of the most talented players in the world I'm not saying it's a great

job because it's a luck I'm saying it's a great job because you work in some of most talented

players in the world with an organisation that is very well structured and well run and is

incredibly well supported in behind the scenes by the fans and in the history that sits within

English cricket so look it's an absolute privilege to be in the position over last three and a half

years and I feel like we've made some significant improvements across the various formats yes we've

missed some opportunities but I think this team has got a real opportunity over the coming years to

continue to improve and hopefully finish what we started and I'd love to love to be a part of it

have you had conversations yet with any of the people above you at the ECBN or do you expect

them to happen and when do you expect them? I looked over the next couple weeks I'll get home and

play some golf and watch some horses and as I say I'm enjoying the job I'd love to still be in

the role and we'll see we'll see where things are in the coming weeks thank you thank you

so England's men end up just short of reaching the t-20 World Cup final but the women's side

will have a chance this summer with a home tournament beginning in fewer than 100 days now

that lidemark was celebrated with events across the country this week including an edgpiston

where Stefan Schemelt spoke with the England captain Nat Sivapront it's 100 days to go to the

World Cup have you got a date sort of circled in your calendar how how you sleep in at the minute

the sleep is a bit broken at the minute but probably not due to the 100 days to the World Cup

yeah due to the small baby not wanting to be asleep the whole night but yeah I mean obviously

a hundred days ago feels a bit closer and a bit more real obviously the seasons are almost upon us

so yeah that excitement is starting to build. If you rightly say you've got lots of other things

to occupy your mind but I guess you don't leave a human want you if you didn't allow your mind

to drift to that world cup and what it will be like to be a captain of an England team at a

home world cup. Yeah absolutely yeah I guess I did that a little bit in the 2017 World Cup just to

let my mind wonder to see what it would be like in my mind you know being in that final and if we

were to win it so yeah I suppose the same thoughts have been going through my mind a little bit

but yeah I suppose it feels far enough a way that you can do that so the focus on see the hearing

now and all that sort of stuff I can think we'll start once the training starts I guess that

clock of preparation that we want to get going with. I want to say it's an opportunity and that can

mean lots of different things obviously to win it like you've just mentioned but also for the game

in this country so when I say that the World Cup is an opportunity I know what does that mean to you?

I guess at the moment that will be lifting the trophy but like on a on a broader scale as I guess

drawing back to 2017 again at that time we thought wow this is really going to like accelerate

women's cricket like how it is now is it's just going to be leaps and bounds from where it's going

to go and then we're like what nine years later and you can't even imagine how it was back then

I suppose so to I guess for the ceiling not to be too low really and the game can go wherever it

wants to really after this tournament and I'm hoping that we sort of get a Euro's moment almost

and yeah I guess there's opportunity in that as well. You mentioned a Euro's moment have you seen

you asked me it's hard not to see what happened with the lionesses and the red roses when they have

success in this country and I think God I want a piece of that. Yeah yeah I mean to experience those

the things that they they experience after seeing winning their tournaments was just amazing so

yeah as a women's sport fan putting myself in there she's at that at that time was was really

really special so yeah to have that chance to do that this summer and yeah it's it's almost

unthinkable about I suppose where you can go with it so I'll have to dampen down that excitement

by the time we get there I think. Do you know that England have won every women's world

cup that has been played in this country? I learned that in the previous interview actually

today so no expectations obviously it should already just happen yeah I mean that's obviously

an incredible record that we have and yeah hopefully we can draw on some of those experiences

and we'll know see if you feed those players they're still around the game so yeah hopefully we

can draw on those and use that to our advantage. Where's the balance of power in sort of global

women's cricket at the moment we know that New Zealand are the defending T20 World Cup champions

India won the last 50 over World Cup Australia are going through their own sort of transitional

changes. Where is that and where does that leave England in terms of being in the in the mix

to sort of lift the trophy? I think that makes things quite open to be fair I guess if we saw in

the last T20 World Cup there were different teams in the semi-finals and yeah that makes

we're a really exciting time I guess T20 cricket is a game that can change really quickly and

yeah obviously if if a really good team have a bad day that could be the end of that so

T20 cricket can be really fickle but I guess the openness of women's cricket at the moment in the

world is a really exciting part and yeah hopefully we can see some brilliant games capture the

imagination of the fans that that do come to watch and yeah hopefully we have a great time this

if I talk about legacy is that is that a straightforward thing to to to discuss or quantify

so when you think back to to 2017 what's there a legacy to that tournament did women's cricket in

this country get that quite right? To me I always think legacy you more think about after you've

like finished playing the game almost like when you're in cricket when you still playing you're

in the moment and you're you know riding the highs and lows your own performance of the team

of the you know the the time in the world I suppose so I think the acceleration was a little bit

slower after the 17 World Cup but where we are now is I guess we have seen in other women's sports

that so many things could happen so yeah I think we're at a really exciting time in the game

we talk about I know the acceleration in the game and the franchise leagues and those sorts of

things 100 auction next week do you think that the England women's I don't know what's that group

is going to be a bit lively while that auction is going on? Yeah I think so I think it it will be

tricky for the girls who are in the auction I suppose with that uncertainty about what's going

to happen I know when we had the auction for the first WPL that was a bit of an awkward time

between everyone we had a game in the in the T20 World Cup on that day so some people found out

what was happening before the game some people afterwards so the whole day felt a bit weird

but yeah I guess with quite a lot of our team knowing what what they're going to be doing in

the 100 next year hopefully everyone can be really supportive of those girls who are in the auction

and yeah I suppose it's just a really exciting time for our sport here yeah certainly be cheating

and as a team it's just under a year since you and Charlotte are united as the new

the new leadership group what have you been pleased about in terms of the progress that you've

made and where has there still worked to do? Yeah it is funny because we actually haven't been

together all over the side since since the World Cup late last year so it has been a while but I

think what the moves that we have made I think is certainly in the honesty around our group and

the openness to challenge and I think we can push the Aben further to I suppose put ourselves

in a great position to be able to adapt as a side when you're being challenged on the pitch

see that's I suppose what we've practiced for. I'm thinking that's

suppose where we can make some more moves this early season and yeah I suppose put ourselves in

the best position we can for having that tournament started. Well that was Nat Sivabron with Stefan

Shemil thanks to Stephen Finn and Abyshek John John while that's it for this episode of the TMS

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