{"id":784653,"date":"2026-02-23T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/784653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:33:17","slug":"t20-world-cup-pakistan-spinners-stand-between-england-and-a-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/784653\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Pakistan spinners stand between England and a semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An lbw dismissal to Dunith Wellalage means England&#8217;s captain Harry Brook has been removed by spinners four times in a row at this World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall he now averages 19.1 against spin in T20 internationals, compared to 46.2 against the quicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacob Bethell, who played a horrible slog to fall to Maheesh Theekshana on Sunday, has got out to a spinner in every innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jos Buttler was pinned in front by Wellalage, though he looked equally as troubled by the seamers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buttler, who has made three single-figure scores in a row, was the only player from the expected XI for Tuesday to train on Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Given England rarely train when there is only one day between matches, that shows Buttler&#8217;s struggle to find form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday&#8217;s match is again in Pallekele, where England have now won four T20s in a row in a matter of weeks. It is becoming a home far away from home in the Sri Lankan jungle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match will also be played on a fresh, unused pitch, which England will hope is more suited to clean-hitting. If not they, of course, have their own potent spin attack as Sunday&#8217;s win showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An lbw dismissal to Dunith Wellalage means England&#8217;s captain Harry Brook has been removed by spinners four times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-784653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116122564005589384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}