Wright puts down marker

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The Sussex all-rounder blazed an unbeaten 75 off 48 balls and shared in a destructive 119-run opening stand with Ravi Bopara on Wednesday to help England cruise to a nine-wicket win at Lord's with 32 balls remaining.

"I hope this has done me a lot of good," said Wright, who hit eight fours and five sixes in his blistering innings having struggled to assert himself as an opener previously.

"Hopefully I can push on if I'm selected in the next game and take it on from here. If I do get the chance to do it I've got to try and get more consistent and push on from this - I want to make this my marker and push on."

In four appearances as an opener at Twenty20 international level, Wright has a top score of only 30 and failed to score from his first eight deliveries last night as he struggled to find any fluency and timing.

But having claimed his first half-century, which included three successive sixes off all-rounder Kieron Pollard, Wright now looks certain to open alongside Bopara for Friday's tournament opener against Holland at Lord's.

"I found it quite hard to start with and they bowled those first few overs well," he said. "I wasn't seeing it as well as Ravi was at the time, which sometimes happens.

"At times in Twenty20 cricket someone will naturally get a start and the other person doesn't always and at that point I had a choice.

"I could keep trying to knock ones and let Ravi keep going the way he was or make a decision to take a bit on myself and take a punt and have a go and that's what I chose to do - that got me in and got me seeing the ball a bit better."