#phil-salt

#phil-salt

Enter Phil Salt, ready to headline once again. The opener followed his 141 against South Africa last Friday with 89 off 46 balls as England secured victory in the first of three Twenty20 internationals, with 14 balls to spare. Ireland's bowling effort fell way short of their impressive work in the first half, when Harry Tector and Lorcan Tucker combined for a third-wicket partnership of 128 off 11.2 overs, the former top-scoring with an unbeaten 61 off 36 balls.

England made history, and for the first time more than 300 runs, on an extraordinary night in Manchester as they buried South Africa under a mountain of runs and shredded statistics. The highest total in the team's T20 history was turbocharged by a brilliant opening stand of 126 between Phil Salt and Jos Buttler and by the nation's highest individual score, Salt knocking himself off the top of that chart with an unbeaten 141.