This was not a night at the Gabba for faint-hearted English supporters. Their team made them sweat horribly – most painfully when Moeen Ali dropped New Zealand’s most dangerous, in-form batsman, Glenn Phillips, on 15 off Adil Rashid’s bowling – but Jos Buttler’s side got the job done in the end and in the process kept their T20 World Cup hopes well and truly alive. On to Sydney and Sri Lanka on Saturday.
When Phillips and Kane Williamson were together the game lay in the balance, and the tide seemed to be running against England. The Ali miss revived thoughts of the mistakes against Ireland that had got them into this hole in the first place. But as a collective they steeled themselves over the
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