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As the West Indies and England hole to look disconnected astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Wednesday, memories of March 2016 travel rushing back. Back then, West Indies launched its World T20 run with a thumping triumph implicit England, powered by Chris Gayle’s six-hitting spectacle — a triumph that acceptable it connected people for a title-winning tally that culminated successful different triumph implicit the aforesaid hostile successful the final.
A decennary on, overmuch has changed beyond the tourney being rechristened the T20 World Cup. England has since joined West Indies arsenic two-time champions and arrives arsenic beardown contenders for a 3rd title, with Harry Brook’s broadside wide tipped to spell heavy into the competition.
West Indies, meanwhile, statesman erstwhile again arsenic underdogs. But caput manager Daren Sammy — the title-winning skipper successful 2012 and 2016 — believes the Shai Hope-led broadside is acceptable to situation the best.
“I retrieve coming into 2016, immoderate of the names that my cricketers were called. Some of the battles we had to fight. To this day, 10 years later, we are inactive warring it,” Sammy said, adding that helium would talk much openly astir those challenges aft the tournament.
“But we won’t fto that impact what we bring connected the field. We effort to power the things that are wrong our power… Mumbai has been a spot that has been benignant to america successful the World Cups, truthful we look guardant to it.”
England, meanwhile, volition look to sharpen its execution aft surviving a large scare against Nepal connected Sunday. Veteran Jos Buttler, 24 runs shy of becoming the 4th batter to people 4,000 T20I runs, felt the constrictive flight could beryllium valuable.
“If you tin clasp your nervus and negociate to inactive execute skills… that’s astir apt bully learning for the group,” Buttler said, arsenic England seeks to crook lessons into momentum.
