
The manner of England's victory was noteworthy ©AFP
Before this game, Eoin Morgan said he thought Australia were the joint second favourites, along with his own England team, to win the T20 World Cup. Morgan doesn't get many things wrong when it comes to reading the cricketing tea leaves but on the evidence of his side's dominant, brutal takedown of Australia in Dubai on Saturday evening, his pre-match prediction looked well wide of the mark. England's eight-wicket victory,