Stephen Finn

It's still in my towel trunk at home.

Yeah, and I think that gave Johnny Bairstow his chance to come in batting at number four.

I think he shuffled up and down the order a bit depending on the situation, but there were a few games where he batted at number four and clearly Johnny went on to be a fantastic player.

He was very early in his international career.

then um so kevin was a big miss in a couple of those games especially the the game against sri lanka which was um in my mind it was a quarter final but it was the last group game um of the super eights for us and if we won it we would make it through to the next stage of the tournament to the semi-finals even though we hadn't played that well up until that point um so we went into that game feeling as though it was a quarter final um and didn't manage to get over the line he'd have helped in that situation

Yeah, me and Jade Dernbeck, we were both not out at the end.

I was one from three and I remember facing Malinga.

And it was the only real time that I faced him in international cricket.

And Yorkers, slower balls, I couldn't pick him.

See, I was just flailing around at the end there.

Well, it does now, doesn't it?

It certainly does now.

Yeah, the net run rate is again something that from that tournament onwards everyone was a lot more wary of and that's why at this stage of the group when we're watching England play here you're constantly thinking what do they need to do to improve their net run rate and that was probably born there.

Well, especially in their own conditions.

And when you look back on it, in retrospect, the West Indies were the best T20 team in that tournament with the way that they set up and their attitude towards the game and the way that they performed throughout the tournament.

And you'd always expect a home team to go far in any tournament, just given...

the familiarity with the conditions and the fact it was only played at those three grounds throughout the tournament the wickets maybe got a touch tired which would have suited the skill especially those Sri Lankan batters you look at some of those greats in there and their ability to play on tricky pitches so yeah not all that surprising in hindsight but you know when you look at the might of India and how England have developed over the years they're not two teams when you when you look back now that you think might be there

yeah waiting for samuels to come and do his job and he did marlon samuels 78 or 56 including often that's if malinga and i'd forgotten this five sixes and a single over yeah and that's good that's the game isn't it that that there and marlon samuels um for all of the power and destruction of the other players you always felt as though when you were playing against the west indies that samuels was playing the anchor role and looking to buy this time but clearly

saw an opportunity against the seam of Malinga, even though such a skillful bowler, clearly to put him under pressure, took the risk and ultimately that's what won the game.

Yeah, and I think players also then weren't as good at hitting sixes.