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It is the third time in four editions of the tournament that they have fallen at this stage since 2021. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll hold my hands up and admit I made a big mistake dropping Samson,\u201d Brook said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t good enough in the field. We misexecuted, and can\u2019t afford to do that against India.<\/p>\n
\u201cCatches win matches, don\u2019t they, and unfortunately it didn\u2019t stay in my hands. It\u2019s just one one of those things. I didn\u2019t catch it and he played a very good innings and arguably won them the game.\u201d <\/p>\n
Asked if the moment stayed in his mind, he added: \u201cObviously it\u2019s in the back of your mind. I kept on looking at the scoreboard and he was piling the runs on. I was like, \u2018Well, I\u2019m going to have to get 89 tonight.\u2019 It\u2019s not ideal, but it\u2019s happened now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brook actually only made seven before falling to a brilliant overhead catch by Axar Patel running back from cover. England were then 45 for two but Jacob Bethell hit four of his next eight balls for six and led an improbable England bid to keep up with a rate of 12.5 runs an over. Bethell was out in the last over for 105 off 48 balls, England\u2019s third-fastest T20 century. <\/p>\n
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Samson went on to score 89 from only 42 balls<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019s a phenomenal player, as we\u2019ve seen tonight in a high-pressure situation,\u201d Brook said of Bethell. \u201cThat innings was just phenomenal. He should be extremely proud of what he\u2019s done tonight and this whole winter. He\u2019s going to have a hell of a career with England and I\u2019m looking forward to hopefully spending a lot of time with him in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the overall World Cup campaign, during which England won six of their eight matches, Brook said: \u201cI\u2019m disappointed but extremely proud. I couldn\u2019t ask much more as captain. We\u2019ve had an amazing campaign. I said the other day we\u2019re never out of games and that\u2019s been proven again tonight. We were in the game all the way until the last over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brook gave a strong endorsement of the head coach Brendon McCullum, whose leadership style came in for heavy criticism during the Ashes, and whose future remains the subject of speculation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said plenty of times he\u2019s the best coach I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way he speaks to everybody, he\u2019s got an aura, everybody looks up to him.<\/p>\n
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Brook backed McCullum, whose future is uncertain, as the best coach he\u2019s played under<\/p>\n
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\u201cI feel I\u2019ve done fairly well [tactically]. I\u2019m quite an instinct captain, I make decisions on the feel and we\u2019ve been getting a lot of messages from Baz off the field as well. Our partnership has been good. We get on very well and the communication has been outstanding. Long may it continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he thought McCullum should stay as coach, he added: \u201c125 per cent.\u201d <\/p>\n
McCullum told BBC radio: \u201cI\u2019m enjoying the role across all formats and I\u2019d love to carry that on. I feel like we\u2019ve made some significant improvements across the various formats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Brook admitted that he made a big mistake in dropping India\u2019s top scorer Sanju Samson three overs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460159","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\/460159","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=460159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}