Brooks' innings will have sent a message to the selectors who have excluded him from England's World Cup squad
It probably was not a coincidence Atkinson’s second ball hit 92 miles per hour. The Surrey bowler ended up taking four for 20 – the best debut figures for England in a T20 – to wrap up the match in the 14th over of New Zealand’s chase. Three of those wickets came in that final over.
In all, England’s bowlers ruthlessly dispatched their opponents to take a 2-0 lead in the series with two games to go. It may only be 20-over cricket but building momentum ahead of the 50-over World Cup cannot be underestimated.He had already struck a 41-ball century in the Hundred last week before hitting 43 from 27 deliveries during the first match of this series at Durham last Wednesday.
Yet this was a different statement from that cameo, Brook playing himself in after coming to the crease with his team 43 for two in the seventh over. It took eight balls for him to hit the first of his four sixes.But the passage of play that best summed up his innings came in the 16th over when he deftly cut an 89mph ball from Lockie Ferguson down to third man for four. Two balls later he blitzed Ferguson through the covers for another four.
The next over he clubbed Tim Southee straight down the ground for a six that brought up his half-century.
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