The hard-hitting openers Edgbaston golden duck against modern Zealand final June actually proved to be a key moment on England’s road to Sunday’s World T20 final against West IndiesEngland’s white-ball revolution,one that sees them in Sunday’s final of the World Twenty20 only 12 months after humiliation in its 50-over equivalent, began against modern Zealand at Edgbaston final June with Jason Roy smashing the first delivery straight to the man at backward point.
Nought for one. An inauspicious start, or you might say. And yet Roy,in trying to bludgeon Trent Boult to the rope first up, was doing precisely what comes naturally to him and precisely what this modern England tell us they are preaching: to bat without a fear of failure.
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Source: theguardian.com