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Big picture: Italy plan one more big story to take back home
For West Indies, the pieces of the puzzle are falling together at the right time as they prepare for their final Group C game ahead of the Super Eight.

Three West Indies batters - Shai Hope, Sherfane Rutherford and Shimron Hetmyer - have hit half-centuries across the three games, and their seamers Romario Shepherd and Jason Holder have a five-for and a four-for respectively. With games against Zimbabwe, South Africa and India lined up in the Super Eight, West Indies will hope their economical spinners get into the wicket-taking groove too.

West Indies head coach Daren Sammy's words echoed at the Wankhede Stadium press conference room like a prescient warning for the Wednesday game. They almost implied that the clash between England and West Indies would be decided by which team would consistently make louder sounds of the ball pinging off their bats. Except that they didn't.

These are not just two promising sides in Group C. They are both two-time T20 champions, two powerhouse batting line-ups, two XIs with enviable batting depth, and two teams that are known to hit not just big but also lots of sixes.

Ever since West Indies lifted their second T20 World Cup in 2016, they have been extolled as the original six-hitters, a batting "invention" in Sammy's words, which set the trend for other teams to follow suit. Even though India might be the hot favourites for this T20 World Cup because of their unmatchable six-hitting in recent times, that tag has largely been attributed to them over the last year or so, ever since they adopted a fresh hitting approach with their new generation of batters under a new captain. You stretch the timeline back further and England have been the other team to be consistent ball-bashers in the last 10 years, an approach rewarded with knockout finishes in the last four T20 World Cups and a trophy in 2022.