{"id":22354,"date":"2026-02-16T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22354"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:43:34","slug":"t20-world-cup-england-still-confident-despite-unconvincing-group-stage-says-will-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22354","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: England still confident despite unconvincing group stage, says Will Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jofra Archer took two wickets in the first over of Italy&#8217;s chase but Ben Menenti smashed 60 from 25 balls and Grant Stewart 45 from 22 to give Italy real hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Stewart at the crease, the tournament&#8217;s lowest-ranked side needed 30 runs from the final two overs for an almighty upset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That England came through is obviously a positive. Sam Curran, who also defended 10 from the last over against Nepal, dismissed Stewart in the penultimate over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted there have been nerves throughout the initial group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s actually just a tricky stage in a World Cup,&#8221; Curran told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re nervous, you&#8217;ve got all kinds of nerves and expectation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had a little chat with Morgs [former England captain Eoin Morgan] before the toss and said these are the hardest games because we want to get there so badly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now we&#8217;ve done it it&#8217;s [about] enjoying it. This is our first aim and now we focus on the teams that we know will be in our group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#T20 #World #Cup #England #confident #unconvincing #group #stage #Jacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jofra Archer took two wickets &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}