Our aggressive brand of cricket took us to WT20 final: Morgan

England captain Eoin Morgan todaysaid their belief in playing "aggressive brand of cricket" hasplayed a big role in the team's progress to the final of theICC World Twenty20.

England tonight into the final of the ICC WorldTwenty20 with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over NewZealand, riding on opener Jason Roy's blazing 78.

After restricting New Zealand to 153 for eight with animpressive death bowling effort, it was then turn of right-handed Roy to pulverise a potent Black Caps attack intosubmission with a superlative 78 off 44 balls as the winnersfinished the match in only 17.1 overs.

"We did really well to peg it back after the first six orseven overs. (New Zealand skipper) Kane (Williamson) playedreally well and his wicket was very important. The belief inour camp is a very aggressive brand of cricket and we haveconfidence at the moment. We are in a good position at themoment. (A final) is the kind of thing you dream about. Theplayers have made a lot of sacrifices and worked very hard forit," a jubilant Morgan said at the post-match pressconference.

He lauded his bowlers for their efforts to restrict NewZealand to 153 for eight after the Kiwis got off to arollicking start in the first 10 overs.

"We continued to take wickets and it helped us a hugeamount. At one stage we were looking at 180," Morgan said.

Losing skipper Williamson admitted that they were todaybeaten by a superior team.

"All credit to England. I knew we were probably a touchshort. The 180-mark was realistic and it would have been acloser game. We were beaten by a far better team," he said.

Williamson said he backed his bowlers to defend the scorebut Roy took the game away from them with his power-hitting.

"We weren't able to stem the flow of runs, it was afantastic knock by Jason Roy. We backed our bowlers to defendanything but the damage was done early," he said.

Man of the Match Jason Roy credited English bowlers forrestricting New Zealand to a below-par score.

"The bowling unit did really well. They (New Zealand) area hugely dangerous line-up.

"I tried to get the team off to a good start and it wentquite well. It was a chance to get off to a great start on adecent wicket. I gave it a crack and it came off. I got a fewboundaries early and kept going from there. It's the way a lotof us play. We have that opportunity to do what they want andbe free with their skills," Roy said.

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