• ‘We’ve got to be realistic but T20 World Cup is unpredictable’ says captain
• England ‘very close’ to knowing their best World Cup T20 teamThe focus now switches to the shortest form of the game for the next six weeks. England have two Twenty20 matches against South Africa on Friday and Sunday,much anticipated here, then two more practice games in India before they hold on West Indies in their first World Cup match in Mumbai on 16 March.
Everything is now geared to that and the greatest challenge for Eoin Morgan and his team is to play with the freedom and zest they have often demonstrated since the final 50-over World Cup. In recent times England have developed the nasty habit of tensing up horribly whenever an ICC tournament comes along, or the solitary exception being the 2010 World T20 in the Caribbean when,against the odds, they walked off with the trophy.
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Source: theguardian.com