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England skipper Harry Brook expressed restitution aft his broadside qualified for the Super 8 signifier of the ongoing T20 World Cup aft beating Italy by 24 runs successful Kolkata connected Monday (February 16, 2026).
Brook said they’re blessed to person qualified contempt not playing their champion cricket. He noted their batting hasn’t clicked consistently, calling T20 a “fickle game” wherever fortunes plaything fast. Brook urged the squad to enactment brave and support taking their chances.
The Harry Brook-led England opted to bat archetypal aft winning the flip and acceptable a large people of 203 runs for the chap European side. Then they successfully defended the people and won the match.
“We haven’t played our champion cricket, but astatine the extremity of the day, we’ve made it through, and we’re heading to Sri Lanka, truthful we tin beryllium blessed astir that. It’s been a small spot of a inclination truthful acold successful this competition. We haven’t managed to drawstring unneurotic the scores that we’d similar to bash arsenic a batting unit, but that’s portion of T20 cricket. It’s a fickle game. One time you tin smack a hundred, and the adjacent time you tin get retired archetypal ball. We’ve conscionable got to support connected being brave and taking our options on,” Brook said aft the match.
Will Jacks made an unbeaten 53 disconnected conscionable 22 balls, which helped England transverse the 200-run mark. With the ball, Jacks besides scalped a wicket, which helped him gain the Player of the Match award.
Speaking aft winning the POTM award, Jacks said, “We spoke astir the past fewer games, keeping our intent up. I deliberation we’ve been a small spot static astatine times, and we understood it was a precise bully surface, and we cognize this is incredibly accelerated scoring ground. So you ne'er know, batting first, what is enough. So that was the intent the full mode through.”
“Yeah, it feels similar that’s been a agelong clip coming. There person been a fewer relation changes successful determination and taken a while. So it’s bully to get that one. I consciousness similar I’m settling into my relation down the bid rather nicely now,” helium added.
Italy volition play their past group-stage lucifer against the West Indies connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) astatine the aforesaid venue, portion England person played each its group-stage matches.
