Needing a win of any description to maintain their T20 World Cup hopes alive, England needed to endure a three-hour rain delay on the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, as a collection of torrential downpours threatened to clean out their remaining group-stage fixture, and hand Scotland a go to the Tremendous Eight, even earlier than their very own conflict with Australia might get underway in St Lucia.
However with the cut-off time looming, the clouds lastly broke, and an 11-overs contest was capable of get underway – which in flip was diminished to 10-a-side after one other brief break for rain. Buttler duly misplaced the toss, and was then bowled for a four-ball duck as Namibia’s seamers discovered the sweaty circumstances to their liking within the powerplay. However with Harry Brook’s 47 not out from 20 balls main the way in which, England reasserted their dominance to safe a 41-run win.
“It is a huge aid,” Buttler mentioned on the post-match displays. “It was actually a worrying day when the rain was coming down. However I believed we put in a very good efficiency. I believe everybody managed that scenario properly. We had been properly ready after we did play, and we performed properly.
“I believed that was a very good rating on that wicket,” he added, after England recovered from a dicey 13 for two within the third over to publish a aggressive 122 for five. “After I acquired out, I used to be pondering 85-90 could be a very good rating, with the way in which the ball was sticking within the wicket. However credit score to [Jonny] Bairstow and Brook, a incredible partnership with nice cameos from Moeen [Ali] and Livi [Liam Livingstone]. They’re class gamers.”
The victory nonetheless won’t be sufficient if Scotland can proceed their spectacular type within the event thus far by overturning Australia of their remaining Group B match, which was as a consequence of get underway some two hours after England’s match had completed. Requested by Mike Atherton on the presentation whether or not he can be supporting Australia within the circumstances, Buttler replied: “Completely…”
Assuming there are not any extra surprises in retailer in Group B, England will progress to the Tremendous Eight with out a clear thought of the place their type is at, after a irritating run of fixtures that included two wash-outs in opposition to Pakistan in England final month, a 36-run loss to Australia in Barbados, and three matches in opposition to Oman, Scotland and Namibia through which they’ve batted for a complete of 13.1 overs.
“That is simply how it’s,” Buttler mentioned. “I believe everybody’s handled all the pieces that is been thrown at us very well. Generally when you have not had an opportunity to spend a lot time within the center, you may create issues on this format. So credit score to these guys, they have been hitting the ball properly they usually put collectively a significant partnership right now. We have performed all we are able to do. We’ll see what occurs.”
