Pushed to the wall, England bounced back in style to stay alive and skipper Eoin Morgan says that the hosts are very much in contention for a maiden World Cup trophy, provided they produce their 'A-game' in the remaining matches.
Back-to-back defeats to Sri Lanka and Australia threatened to derail England's World Cup campaign but they came up with a great show when it mattered and defeated India by 31 runs on Sunday to stay afloat.
"Yeah, it is. The closer we can get to playing our A-game, the more of a chance we have of going the whole way. If we're scraping our way along, not playing the type of cricket we played in the last four years, I wouldn't be as confident," Morgan said at the post-match press conference.
"I think the manner in which we played today, particularly with the bat, was outstanding. It certainly resonates with everybody in the change room to the identity which we wanted to play with in this tournament. It's come at a really good time and against an extremely strong team. So we're delighted."
"That period from 10 to 20 overs was probably the difference between the game. I think we scored about 90-something runs in 10 or 11 overs. And it was quite evident to see, when the seam was run, the ball was not coming onto the bat, a little bit too pace, a little bit of purchase from cutters, slower balls."
"I think they (Bairstow and Roy) complement each other. I think today off their partnership it sort of ebbed and flowed for quite some time. I think Jonny (Bairstow) took a little bit more time to get himself in but obviously capitalised on the start more so than Jason, but the two certainly looked to take the game to India."
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