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‘It would have been a horrible one to lose’: Curran relieved after England’s Nepal scare

  • ‘You can’t underestimate these guys any more’

  • Curran’s final-over heroics sealed four-run win

England flirted with one of the great T20 World Cup upsets in Mumbai before getting their campaign under way with victory against Nepal by four runs and, although they did not lose the game, Sam Curran insisted they had lost any sense of complacency.

“We take those two points and take great confidence, because it wouldn’t have been a nice dressing room this evening,” said Curran, who conceded just five runs in the final over to decide the game.

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