Records tumble as England hit 300 in T20

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Hello, I'm Alison Mitchell and welcome to the TMS podcast where England's men break record after recording to reach 300 in a T20 international. A feat that's never been achieved before by a test playing Nation.

Salt on 99. Rabada in bowls, leg side in the air, bouncing in front of the fielder and he'll come back for two and.

He will reach a century.

And it's the fastest T20 century for England. Breathtaking batting by Phil Salt.

Here is Janssen in again. Hit high down the ground, over the ropes. Six more. They've not just bettered their previous T20 international total, they're now marmalising it. Right, Rabada moves in, England on 299 for 2. Brook gets a full delivery, strokes it out towards point, brings up the 300 for England, a record total. No Test playing Nation has ever scored 300 in a T20 international to come. We'll hear from the record breaking Phil Saltz and England captain Harry Brook. Plus we'll have analysis from World cup winners David Milan and Alex Hartley on a punishing performance by England's batters.

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So a record breaking night for England here at Old trafford in the second of the T20 International. Still one to go. The series is now level at one apiece. But the story of the night, well, it was all about Phil Salt as England piled up 304 for two, the biggest total for any test playing nation. In a T20 international, Phil Salt hit the fastest T20 international 100 by an England cricketer. The hundred coming off just 39 balls. He went on to make an unbeaten 141. So he carried his bat for 141 off at 60 balls, and that is the highest individual score by any England cricketer in a T20 international. He not only beat his own score of 119, he already held that record in men's cricket, but he passed Danny Wyatt's 124 as well. So that record went. He struck 15 fours and eight sixes in just a punishing, belligerent display of ball, striking Joss Butler 83 from 30. They had a fabulous partnership of 126 off the first eight overs. Jacob Bethel with 26 came in, played his role alongside Phil Salt and Harry Brook. 41 off 21 at the end. A punishing night for the South African bowlers. The South Africa run chase, well, they didn't give up. They came out and gave it a good go. But the winning margin, 146 runs as they were all out for 158 in 16.1. With Will Jacks popping up with a potential hat trick ball as well to almost cap off what would have been an extraordinary night if he'd done that as well. But archer finishing with 3 for 25, Sam Curran picking up a couple, 2 for 11, and Liam Dawson 2 for 34 off his 3.1 overs. And Will Jacks with those two wickets for two runs in the one over that he bowled. I'm alongside David Milan, T20 World cup winner, and somebody who has hit a very rapid T20 international, 100 of your own, David and Alex Hartley here, World cup winner as well. How can you sum up that night? I suppose the context, Phil Salt's achievement here against this South African side.

It's not very often you play the perfect game in cricket, and I would say England have played the perfect game there. To score 300, bowl an opposition team out for 160, I think it was 158. 158, yeah. 160 odd. You couldn't have written that any better from a coaching point of view or a player's point of view. But for Phil Salt to go and score his fourth T20 international 100, what a day for him. He went out from ball one, especially after getting a first baller in the last game. I know it was a shortened game, but he walked out, got a first baller and he hit the first three balls of the game for boundaries and when you start off like that and you create that momentum and you take the game on like you do, it puts the opposition under so much pressure. So all credit to him and the way him and Joss but sort of dovetailed each other. Phil Sol got off to an absolute flyer, then Joss Butler stole the show. So all credit to them. To have an opening partnership that scored over 100 runs at the speed that they did was unbelievable.

It was breathtaking, Alex, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was. It was entertaining. It's not often that you see both openers get off to a flyer like you did this evening. It was one of those days where after 10 overs it was almost like, what are England going to get here? And you know, we joked on air about are they going to get 300? They did slow down a little bit and then they accelerated again. And I think the, the thing for me, you know, Bethel came in, didn't face a ball for a while. First ball knocked down the ground for one. Then he, you know, just kept getting Phil Salt on strike and then he was like, right, I want a bit of this. Next two balls he hit down the ground for six off the skipper. So it was, as Malo just said, the perfect game of cricket for England.

It's not South Africa's strongest or first choice bowling attack, but still to do this against, you know, Rabada was still playing. Yes, Marco Janssen, albeit coming back from, from a bit of a layoff and, and an injury and surgery for him in a 19 year old there in K mapa. But you know, other teams will face bowling attacks like this and get nowhere.

Near 300, oh, 100%, you still have to score them no matter who you play against. And, and you can talk about the quality of attack and we can talk about what you still have to be able to hit the ball for four and six consistently and England managed to do that. But I think that's a big awakening for a couple of the young players in South Africa that probably haven't played as much. That's a welcome to International T20 cricket. If you get it wrong and a good wicket with, with, with the best players in the world, you're going to come up against it. But yeah, look, you know, when you, when you watch at Janssen, you see janssen and Kagisa Rabada 2, the best that South Africa have in this format, travel that much, you can just see the quality of the wicket and, and the quality of the batters they came up against.

And David, you're In and amongst those scores for the fastest T20 international hundreds for England. You don't, you don't like to talk about it or to, you know, blow your own trumpet, but you hit a 48 ball hundred against New Zealand in 2019. What would it have felt like for Phil Salt there when he's just creaming it and you sort of get closer to. To these landmarks. Are you aware of how quick you're scoring?

Well, I think sometimes when you're in the zone, you don't actually notice where you're at. I think there would have probably been a period in the game where all he's thinking about is hitting every ball for four and six and the next time he's looked up, he's probably got to 85 or 90 or whatever it is, and. And to be on a free hit when you're on 99 as well. What feeling? That's what everyone dreams of when you're playing for your country and you go, I can score 100 here and not get out. That's how. That's how good it is. But look, I know he's had that feeling a couple of times because this is his fourth innings, but that would still feel like the first one. He, as I said, he got a naught in that first game. He'd have probably felt the pressure. He's not playing 50 over cricket anymore. There's a lot of guys that have been given opportunities to open the batting and bat up the order in different formats. So for him to go after the last game and get 140 and play the way he did so convincingly, hardly mishit a ball, took the game on from ball one perfect game of cricket for him.

Let's hear from Mr. Record Breaker himself, Phil Salt. He's been reflecting on his incredible innings. 141not out off 60. Fastest T2000 by an England cricketer with Stefan Shamult.

141Not out off 60 deliveries. Well batted. How are you feeling?

Yeah, I'm delighted. Really nice to do that at Old Trafford with it being my home ground, but, you know, even more pleased we've got 300 and won by such a convincing margin.

Why were you able to do that tonight and hit the ball so cleanly in the manner that you've just done?

I like to think that it comes from preparation and working hard. It is a sport of fine margins, as we saw the other night in Cardiff. That first ball, everything could have been so different, but it wasn't. So you got to crack on. So I think a bit of both.

Does that sum up the life of a T20 opener? Golden Duck two nights ago, 140 tonight. That you have to be able to ride those highs and lows.

Yeah, exactly that. You know, it's more of a challenge upstairs than it is, you know, hitting a ball or catching a ball. So, yeah, I think that's. That's probably the toughest part of the job at times. But, you know, really pleased to bounce back being one nil down and give us a win like that.

There'll be a lot of people listening to this who've played cricket a number of levels who want to know what that feeling is, like when maybe the ball is hit in the middle all the time or when you might be thinking you could hit anything for four or six. What was it like being in that sort of zone this evening?

You tend not to take notice of it being brutally honest, one ball at a time. And when I do my process as well, I'm getting my routines right, I don't really notice, you know, it's just the runs go up a little bit quicker than normal. That's the only thing. So, you know, it's not this, not this sense of euphoria that some people playing a weekend might believe. You know, I'm a little bit more, you know, focused on other things.

You've got four T20 international hundreds now. Only two men have got more, Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell. It's quite some company.

Yeah, I suppose it is, you know, and I want a few more realistically not to, you know, not to look too far ahead, but it's a great feeling scoring hundreds for England and I want it to continue.

It's competition for places as well. You can't do much more than what you've done this evening.

Yeah, I don't worry about that. Being honest, you know, I've had a good couple of years leading into this and, you know, if I keep performing like that and keep working as hard as I can, I'm going to be in a good place.

And just finally this white ball team has been through some highs and lows recently. Nights like tonight show what it, what you are capable of when it all clicks.

Yeah, I think my international record speaks for itself.

I don't think the team as a whole though. There's been some ups and downs.

Yeah, there's been some ups and downs, but that's, that's the game, you know, everybody's got, you know, the two penner to add when it's going well and, you know, even More when it's not going so well. That is professional sport, but, you know, you can't ride the highs and lows like that. You've got to stay focused in on what you're doing and what you're trying to achieve as an individual, as a team.

And just finally, for you and Joss to do what you've done on your home ground, does that make it even more special?

Yeah. I love batting with Joss. I think we had one of the. I think we had the best, if not one of the best partnerships in international cricket for a while when we were opening. So it's nice for him to come back up. I don't know how long that's. That's going to be four, you know, because Joss is so good at three as well. But I'm loving opening the bat with him.

Thanks, Phil. Well batted.

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For him personally, does that send a bit of a message about the 50 over team?

Oh, look, you've got to just keep scoring runs. I don't think he's necessarily thinking about that 50 over team right now. You know, he's probably just thinking, I'll play the cricket that I can. But of course, it sends a message. Any, any time you play cricket and score runs, it, it sends a message, you know, England, keep saying that your currency is scoring runs while he's just scored 100 off not very many balls tonight.

And just on that point, I've actually been in that position where you've only playing one format of the game in T20 cricket and you look at a series and you think, I've got three games, you get a wash out in the first one, you know you've got two more and you have to take every opportunity you can because you can't go back to the 50 over game as Jacob Bethel did and get 100 and silence people and then go into the next format.

You're literally just Pride to the 23 World Cup.

Exactly. Yeah. And, and you're, you're in a situation where you know you have to score runs in every single innings. And Phil Salt will be in that position now where he's only playing one format of the game. He'll get judged on domestic cricket as much as he can because there's other players coming through doing well in other formats. So for him to come and score 140, unbelievable for him. And it would have put his, his mind. I wouldn't say he'd probably have felt the pressure himself, but he would have probably been under pressure from other aspects of the world and the sense of what we have. But it does make it a lot sweeter for him doing that.

The one thing for Salt as well though, the next T20 World Cup. Well, the next World cup is a T20 World cup in February. So it's almost like, let me just concentrate on this and then my cricket will do the talking. Leading into the next 50 over World Cup.

It is only one game in this series. It's such a shortened game in Cardiff, but still got Trent Bridge to come on on Sunday. Where, where is it leaving this England team at the moment with an eye on the T20 World Cup. You know, obviously there's no, no Ducket and no Jamie Smith now in this particular series.

Yeah, I don't think you'll get these conditions in, in India. Well, you might do in some of the wickets, but I don't think was.

A very good pitch.

Exactly. I don't think it'll be this flat in, in. In. In India. I think, you know, they, they end up turning a bit and you use, use ones especially in World Cups, you end up reusing wickets as well. It's really weird. You only get two strips and so on. But. So that might play a place. But I think the key for England now is, is. Is how they back it up. They've done a perfect game as I've summed it up. Now the next thing is going to Tren Bridge which hopefully will be another flat one. And, and it'd be a really good wicket for England and, and if they get put in again, the challenge is can they do it again? Can they back it up or is it just going to be a blowout like they did in the 50 over where they score 400 and they go missing in the other two. So hopefully they can back it up and, and the same guys can put their hand up, you know, just about the. Puts his hand up every series. I mean, he's the most consistent battle I've ever seen in T20 cricket for the way he plays. He's not an accumulator, he's someone who takes the game on and he's always found a way. But it's just whether the rest of the guys as a young team that are still building and finding the way, whether they can do that consistently. Because in the World cup you're going to have to win three or four games just to get to the, the quarterfinals, semi finals.

Let's just remind you, or give you some of those, the records and the, the leaderboard, if you like, for those highest individuals scores in T20 cricket for England. Because Phil Salt, now with his fourth 100, owns four of the top six highest scores for England in T20 internationals. He leads the way with an unbeaten 141. That's above his own 119 against the West Indies in 2023. Alex Hales with an unbeaten 116 against Sri Lanka in 2014. So it's going back a little bit. And then Salt again, an unbeaten 109 against the West Indies in 2023, that same tour. Then New David with the 103 not out. That was the 48 ball 100 against New Zealand in Napier, 2019. And then Salt again alongside Livingston. So Salt unbeaten on 103, Livingston 103 against West Indies in Bridgetown for Phil Salt in 2024. So, yeah, it's quite a, quite a number of those records he's got at the top to occupy four of the top six high scores for England.

Also just shows once he gets in, he's so hard to get out as well. And he scores incredibly quickly. He doesn't slow down. He, I don't think he strikes me as a bloke that if he's in his 80s, he's going to go, right, I get another 100. He's going to go, no, I'm batting this way, I'm going to carry on that way. And, and he gets the reward for it, you know, and he's incredibly well. The way you watch him and the way he strikes the ball, you're just like, I don't want him to get out, I want to watch More.

And that total, 304 for 2, the biggest total by any Test playing nation in T20 international. The the third country to pass 300 in all behind Zimbabwe. 344 for 4 is the highest total in any international T20 match. That was against Gambia. And Nepal racked up 314 for 3 against Mongolia. So, you know, different, different sort of.

We'll rank this one at the top. Let's put this one.

Yeah.

I think England will take it as the top, so. But Joss Butler at the halfway stage said he never thought that he would see that 300 in an international T20 between, you know, two Test playing nations as we've got here. So that just gives you an indication, isn't it? Even in that dressing room, they are open mouthed at their own achievements.

Yeah. And that's one of the things with England, they've always been wanting to push the ceiling. They never want to put a limit on the ceiling, so they're always trying to work out where the ceiling is. And that started under Owen Morgan and it continued under Joss Butler and now Harry Brook. And for them to actually get that is unbelievable. I mean, I didn't think I'd ever see a 300 in T20 cricket. You think someone would hit one straight up and someone will bowl a good spell. I know India came close against Bangladesh. Looking at those. Those scores, I don't know where that was played, but. But to do that in the middle.

Of 290 or didn't they?

290. Yeah. And this was in the middle of a ground. Adult Trafford, big boundaries. They pushed out towards the side. It wasn't like there was a small boundary and hitting with the wind the majority of the time. So they've done it on a good ground. I know the wicket played unbelievably well, but you still have to go and do it. And the way they did that consistently for 20 overs, even the batters that came in, they kept the momentum up. They took good, positive options, smart options. Bethel got the strike. Harry Brook came in when, when he had the wicket. He started from ball one. He tried all these scoops and things. He put South Africa off, kept the pressure going. And that's just. Yeah, as I said earlier, that's just the perfect game.

Well, let's hear from the England captain, Harry Brook. He has been speaking to Stefan Shemuel.

Harry, you were a little bit frustrated a couple of nights ago. Bit different tonight.

Yeah, a little bit frustrated the other night, but that stuff was out of our control, really. Tonight was Just unbelievable. I'm absolutely speechless. We've hopefully broken a few records there and yeah, that was a mega night. I'm so pleased for Salty Joss and all the boys that bowled out there tonight.

What was it like to be watching it? What was it like to be a part of in the middle?

I was just sat in the dugout. I was pretty chill. But looking back and reflecting on it now, that was an extraordinary night of batting and the way that them two have. Yeah, like I said, I'm speechless. But the way them two took it to the opposition tonight in the power play, I think we were 105 or whatever off the power play and I don't know if that's another record, but phenomenal night.

Third highest total by any team in a T20 international. Phil Salt, fastest hundred by an England player. England's record win in terms of runs. You guys have had some up and downs in white ball cricket, but does a night like tonight show what this team's capable of?

Yeah, absolutely. And that's an extreme tonight, but it's just another little snippet in another game of how dominant we can be. And in my eyes, I think we can be the most dominant team in the world going forward. We do everything that we have done the tonight. There's no reason why we can't beat any team.

Tell me about Phil Salt and what makes him the batter he is, why he's capable of doing things like he did tonight.

His ability to go out there tonight and hit his first ball for four is a risky shot. It was Ariel after getting a golden duck the other night. That just sums up the type of player he is. He's selfless and he knows exactly what his role is. His role is to go out there in the power play and look to put that balls under pressure from. From the get go. And he did that perfectly today.

How good for you as a captain to see Joss Butler batting that way as well.

Yeah, he's a phenomenal player. He has been for many years and to see the way that he, he took them to the sword as well was, was awesome. And yeah, he was in the limelight for a while, but then salty overtook him tonight.

Listen, it's been a long summer for you, Harry. The only player who's played in every England game and it must be quite tiring. But I guess nights like tonight, they give you energy to keep going, don't they?

It's never tiring playing for your country. Obviously there's times where you'd like a little Rest. But every time I pull on an England jersey, I'm buzzing to be out there and I want to try and do my best to the team. As a 10 year old, looking at myself now, I'd just be mega proud of what I've done. And just to be stood here chatting to you now, as a 10 year old, looking up, looking now would be. Would it be a dream come true.

And a decider on Sunday?

Yeah.

Hopefully the weather stays away and we give it a good crack.

Thanks for your time, Mari.

Thank you.

Harry Brooke, a happy England captain living out his dream at the moment. I mean, yeah, as he said it there, almost the perfect night. What stood out there is when he says we can be the most dominant team in the world, but to really be seen as the most dominant team in the world, it can't be these one off matches. You've got to string this together in a global tournament, haven't you, to win more trophies?

You have to. Yeah. And he seems to love a, a headline, doesn't he, Harry? Whether he does it on purpose or not.

Definitely not do it on purpose, we'll.

Find out another day. But yeah, look, I, I think the challenge is always to back it up. You can always have good games like this where everything clicks and everyone comes off and everything you try, you know, works. But you know, the challenge to win tournaments is to do it game in, game out. You look at the, the Last World Cup, T20, World cup in, in, in Caribbean and the, the US England actually, I think they had a rained out game but they actually played really well and then lost to one of the big nations and, and were out. So it doesn't matter what you do, it's just about winning games of cricket consistently. And so far this team hasn't done that yet. They haven't consistently won series three nil and so on. And that will come over time. They're still a young team. I know the World Cup's coming up and the new captain, new, new, new coach, they're building up for that, but they have to find a method to do it pretty soon. And if they can back this up on at Nottingham, it will give them a hell of a lot of confidence that they can do that moving forward.

It is also adjusting to conditions, isn't it? And when they get to India in February, it's going to be very, very different to this.

Yeah, of course, it's almost. Cardiff would have been a completely different wicket than we've had here at Old Trafford. It'll be completely different at Trent Bridge. So England can't go to Trent Bridge thinking they're going to score another 300. You've got to reset. And they've got enough experience, enough in that dressing room to almost level them and almost say, okay, come on lads, let's enjoy tonight because we should do. And you know, we've been record breakers and we've played a hell of a game of cricket. But settle, simmer down. We've got got to do it again on Sunday.

And what about the opposite camp? If you're Aiden Markram and the South Africa captain and you've just been on the end of England's record victory in terms of runs, 146 run walloping off the back of the Southampton captain win, which was also a record margin in any one day international. What are you saying to your team and how are you getting them together?

Well, if I was the captain there, I would shut it down straight away and just be like, it's one of those poor nights. Move on. Yes.

Charlie Brooks. Croats. Shambles.

Shambles. It was a shambles tonight, lads. We bowled badly, we didn't bat very well.

It was a bad day at the office at Leeds for England.

There you go. Exactly. So you just, I would just shut it down. If you're going to go in the change room now and you're going to go and talk about it, you, you're going to bring up guys, bad balls in the bad fields and, and whatever. Maybe you're just going to create yourself an environment where people are just going to switch off first and foremost and they're going to think that it's just being picky because no one's meaning to bow a bad ball, no one's meaning to get out. So the best thing you can do is just park this bit. Like Harry Brooks said about the last game, it's a nothing game. Well, not nothing game but it's. It was a bit of a shambles. Park it, move on, come back stronger the next game. Don't dwell on it too much. That would be, that would be the message. Reading the coaches Shukri Conrad's comments after the game, he said he was going to have a good sit down and talk to the players. I don't know if that's still the right way to go. It looked like it worked when they came up at Cardiff. A few different personnel changes, but yeah, I just don't see the point in saying anything.

You know him quite well. What sort of personality is he in these situations?

Yeah, he can be a feisty Character, and he likes to be quite open with, with how he. He speaks. You know, he's. He's been around a bit. He's. He's coached some, some good teams in, in South Africa. He's coached the SAA team for a long time, so he'd have been around these players, so they would know how he works and he would know how they work, and he would probably know what gets the best out of them. So whether he just says that for the camera to, to give them a bit of a. A kick up the, the backside might be the way. But, yeah, look, I think he, he rides it a little bit like Mickey Arthur, he rides it a bit on his, his emotions and, and he'll let you know what he feels, but it's always a balanced message that he gives to you.

Alex, do you think South Africa sort of acquitted themselves fairly well considering what was coming at them with the bat, the way they continued in the field and the batting efforts in the face of such a steep target?

I think the field definitely. I think the field definitely. They didn't let their heads drop, did they? You know, there would have been a few lads that don't make eye contact with each other, and you sort of stood out on the boundary going, I hope the ball doesn't come to me. But the way they were charging around in the field is credit to them. You know, they could have quite easily have given up. And the second innings, for me, you can't really read too much into it because there's only one way you can go about that, and it's to take advantage of the power play and to keep on swinging and get as close as you can. But I think the captain set the standard at the top in Markram 41 off 20. Yeah, yeah. And it was almost like, okay, he's doing it. Let's all carry on. I don't know. It's a funny old game, isn't it?

It is. I totally agree with you. I don't think you can look much into the batting when you're chasing 300. You're either getting it or you're. It's busted. It's just not going to happen, I would say. I think they'd be very disappointed with the way they bowled as well as Joss Butler, Phil Sol, Brook Bethel batted. I don't think they executed well tonight. I think their field placings look very frantic towards the ball that they were trying to bowl. They had the leg side filled up on a bowling leg side. They had the square leg and fine leg up on the bowling short ball. So whether that was bluffing or they just had a bit of miscommunication between captain and bowler at the time about what they wanted, and that will be something that I think they would probably address, probably whether that be, you know, tomorrow or before the game, they'd sit down with the bowling coach and just make sure they address those plans and you don't want to make those same mistakes twice.

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