England opener believes brief return of fans spurred return to form, even if the rest of T20 series will now be behind closed doors
England might have won their first Twenty20 International against
India by eight wickets and lost the second by seven, but amid the wildly swaying momentum of the opening encounters there has been one constant for the tourists: Jason Roy top-scored with a 32-ball 49 in the first match, and did it again with a 35-ball 46 in the second.
It is a welcome return to form for a batsman who has not scored consistently since the high of the 2019
World Cup. Roy was averaging 37.17 across all forms of international
Cricket before the start of the 2019 Ashes and a short-lived flirtation with Tests, but between the start of that series and his arrival in India across 19 matches and 19 months he averaged just 16.31.