• Spinner happy with new role going into second T20
  • Praises ice-cool presence of England captain Eoin Morgan

Adil Rashid hopes to be handed further opportunities as a new-ball bowler in Twenty20 cricket after silencing 67,000 Indian supporters.

England’s eight-wicket win on Friday was the first time Rashid has opened the bowling in international cricket and the tactic paid off handsomely. His removal of Virat Kohli for a fifth-ball duck was one of three strikes in the power play as his wiles – and the pace of Jofra Archer and Mark Wood – set the match on its course.

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