The conditions placed extra importance on winning the toss and it was a better tournament for bowlers than batters
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It was not the final we wanted, but it was the final we deserved. There was some drama, certainly some skill, and then the team that batted second won, all watched by a crowd that fell some way short of a full house. The T20
World Cup has been a deeply flawed tournament but it nevertheless proved one basic fact: Twenty20
Cricket is enormous fun. It also showed that assembling the world’s best practitioners in a single place to play loads of games in a short space of time is a very good idea. Which is just as well, as it is happening again next year, and then every two years after that.
It will be remembered for the match-winning batting power of Matthew Wade, Jimmy Neesham, Asif Ali and David Miller, for David Warner showing his critics where they can stick their scepticism, for hard lengths, hard graft and the thrill of seeing the magnificent Shaheen Shah Afridi standing at the end of his run-up, new ball in hand. For
England there was glorious failure, the awesome steamrollerings of West Indies and Australia and the combined excuses of injuries, a lost toss and a successful chase of 57 runs from 24 balls by Neesham and Daryl Mitchell to beat them.