‘You do not wish to be a one-trick pony’: England might rip up prepare for India clash – The Guardian

If a nervy efficiency in their last video game of the Super 12 s did not precisely strike worry into India, who were validated as England’s semi-final challengers on Sunday, Jos Buttler’s side did show something in beating Sri Lanka to make it to the knockout phases. After sticking too strictly to pre-match strategies in their very first 2 matches, the last 2 video games required upon them a more freewheeling and effective technique– and now they might require to rip up their methods once again. “They left like a train however great groups react well, and I believe we reacted well,” Mark Wood stated of his side’s four-wicket win on Saturday. “The tale of the video game was that spin was constantly going to be hard, and could the rate either get wickets or limit? That was various to the last video game, and if the Adelaide pitch is various we’ll have to adjust there. You’ve got to be fluid in your group, in choice, in orders and bowling lineups. You do not wish to be a one-trick pony.” England will most likely require to modify their group for Thursday’s semi-final, having actually chosen the exact same XI in every video game up until now. They will find the seriousness of Dawid Malan’s groin injury on Monday, however the pain had actually not gone away and 4 days out he appears not likely to play. The concern is whether to select a direct replacement in Phil Salt, an aggressive top-order batter who Wood reported to be “munching at the bit”, or generate Chris Jordan, a dazzling fielder whose bowling will contribute to the group’s death-over versatility and can contribute with the bat lower down the order. Perhaps 2 locations ought to be up for grabs offered the kind of Harry Brook, balancing 8.16 at fractionally more than a run a ball throughout 6 innings considering that getting here in Australia. Obviously kind can alter promptly– Ben Stokes was balancing 9.80 at exactly a run a ball prior to he scored 42 to direct the side to success on Saturday– however then England’s Test captain is a diplomatic immunity. “I understand individuals have actually questioned him however when you require him he stands,” Wood stated of Stokes. “That’s another minute in his profession that you can state when the group required him, he was the male to be depended on.” If England, beaten semi-finalists in 2015, are to enhance on that this time there will definitely be more of those minutes to come.
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