England were on a roll as they sealed the T20I series against Australia 2-0 on Friday (October 14) in a build up for the Twenty20 World Cup after the third match was washed out on Friday following several delays for rain.
Right Ahead of the third T20I in Canberra, Michael Hussey, who is part of England's coaching set-up for the T20 World Cup, presented a special cap to Dawid Malan, who was playing his 50th T20I.
The Australian legend lauded Malan and compared him with Virat Kohli and Babar Azam. Malan is currently no.6 in ICC T20I rankings for batters.
"Well, this is something I never thought I will do in my lifetime, an English cap. Congratulations to Mal, who is playing his 50th game for England today. Obviously a lot of highlights in your career already - one of four centurions for England, second-highest scorer ever in the history of T20 cricket, right behind Alex Hales, number one player in the world for a period of time and also the fastest ever to 1000 runs, better than Virat Kohli and Babar Azam, I believe, quicker by a few games," Hussey said ahead of the third T20I between England and Australia on Friday.
"But as Jos consistently said throughout this tour, so far we've got to keep looking forward, we've got to keep playing what's in front of us. And I certainly hope over the next nine or ten games or whatever it is you have plenty more individual success but more importantly I hope you have a World Cup winning medal around your neck in about a month of time," he further added.
England begin their campaign against Afghanistan on October 22. England's group also has Australia and New Zealand. Two more teams will qualify for the group after the initial round of matches.
England's squad for T20 World Cup: Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Alex Hales. Standby Players: Liam Dawson, Richard Gleeson, Tymal Mills.
India squad for T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami.
Pakistan's squad for T20 World Cup: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan (vice-captain), Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shan Masood.