It took an unbeaten fifty from Will Jacks, coming in at No.7 for England, to scrape out a rating of 202/7 towards Italy.
In reply, the Italians completed all out for 178 from their alloted 20 overs, however had zero regrets happening swinging.
“That was our plan all along in this whole tournament is we want to play the way we play,” Menenti continued.
“We did not need to get dictated by the English group who we noticed tonight. We’ve seen for the previous few years they play the sport their approach, they play their pictures and even once they’re dropping wickets they nonetheless take the sport on. And from our perspective if we have been any likelihood of profitable tonight we needed to be those to try to play some pictures.
