{"id":434702,"date":"2026-02-19T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434702\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:15:07","slug":"liam-dawson-england-spinner-on-really-cool-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434702\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Dawson: England spinner on &#8216;really cool&#8217; resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Dawson was confirmed to have made the England squad for the T20 World Cup he described his inclusion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUcUDqPEn25\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> as a &#8220;dream come true&#8221;. , external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-arm spinner has never made an appearance for England at a World Cup before this tournament despite being in the 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2022 squads, unused in all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In this World Cup Dawson has played in all four of England&#8217;s games and has taken four wickets so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawson added that he thought at his age that his chance of playing in a World Cup had gone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I was very realistic that those World Cups I was involved with, you had Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid as your spinners, so I knew I was back-up to them as they&#8217;re two world-class bowlers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew where I stood in those sides and I was very happy with that, but I kept working hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I probably did feel I wouldn&#8217;t play for England again at my age, hopefully I can play a few more games and perform.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have won three of their four T20 World Cup matches so far, and successfully qualified for the Super 8s phase of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brendon McCullum&#8217;s side will next face Sri Lanka on Sunday before games against Pakistan and New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Dawson was confirmed to have made the England squad for the T20 World Cup he described his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}