{"id":449363,"date":"2026-02-28T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:22:08","slug":"t20-world-cup-baz-said-play-like-sehwag-englands-win-over-new-zealand-felt-like-the-good-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449363\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: ‘Baz said play like Sehwag’ – England’s win over New Zealand felt like the good times"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this World Cup, they have scrambled an escape against Nepal<\/a>, scraped past Scotland<\/a> and Italy<\/a> when the walls threatened to crumble in, and beat Sri Lanka with one of the great one-man shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a welcome change for a side that squandered any chances they did create in Australia.<\/p>\n

“If you can get yourself out of some tricky positions and end up winning games it does wonders for your confidence,” Jacks said.<\/p>\n

“There’s no better team than one that fights and finds a way of winning.”<\/p>\n

This is not to say England have been perfect by any means \u2013 nor that everything that has come this winter is forgotten. <\/p>\n

There remains no certainty that McCullum will be in charge come the summer, even after this run to the last four.<\/p>\n

The Test victory in Hyderabad last year, which was followed by four heavy defeats, also shows one should never get too carried away.<\/p>\n

And Harry Brook’s men now leave Sri Lanka – a country that has provided a sanctuary for over the past weeks and returned six T20 wins from six – for India and the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

There they could meet the co-hosts or West Indies or South Africa – this tournament’s three most-feared teams. There are only so many times you can go back to the well.<\/p>\n

“Everyone knows about India and the storyline that brings,” Jacks said.<\/p>\n

“It could also be West Indies and they have beaten us in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

“We know how tricky that will be. We will watching that game on Sunday. We will be prepared. We go in with optimism.”<\/p>\n

It is that optimism that has been drained over the recent months. For many it will, quite rightly, take months to come back.<\/p>\n

Jacks, though, spoke with a glint in his eye \u2013 the look of a side starting to believe in themselves again – and dismissed concerns over the lack of straightforward wins.<\/p>\n

“We’ve won six out of seven games and we’ve qualified for a semi-final,” he said.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, no-one really cares. We obviously want to play well in them but we’re not gutted we haven’t played a perfect game.<\/p>\n

“That’s T20 cricket.<\/p>\n

“What we’ve done well is the key moments – we’ve kept a calm and clear head and we’ve managed to get those rewards.”<\/p>\n

For now it is working. It is a welcome flash back to the good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At this World Cup, they have scrambled an escape against Nepal, scraped past Scotland and Italy when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-449363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449363","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=449363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}