Brook was eager to emphasize earlier than this collection there can be no discuss subsequent month’s Ashes collection inside his white-ball group, insisting his focus is on getting ready for the T20 World Cup in February.

Whether or not that’s true or not is irrelevant, any Brook runs are of profit to each outfits.

Brook’s T20 worldwide document is modest for a person of his abilities – a mean of 29 and 5 fifties in 50 innings – however this was one in every of his finest knocks in both white-ball format as captain.

All his sixes have been clear strikes over mid-wicket – three off the spin of Mitchell Santner and one every off seamers Matt Henry and Kyle Jamieson – on the identical floor his aspect struggled within the washed out first T20 on Saturday, however which had flattened out.

Salt’s knock follows scores of 89 towards Eire and 141 not out towards South Africa in his six T20 innings because the begin of September. He hit one six however 11 fours, concentrating on the covers and behind sq. on the leg aspect.

Salt and Brook each holed out within the 18th over after which Tom Banton’s cameo noticed him end unbeaten on 29 from 12 balls as England romped previous the bottom’s earlier excessive rating of 208-5.

Though Jos Buttler hit to mid-off for 4 and Jacob Bethell discovered mid-on having caught 4 boundaries in a 12-ball 24, England’s T20 batting line-up is beginning to take form.