England today enjoyed training in the middle at the picturesque Karori Cricket Club in Wellington, focussing on batting and bowling at the end of an innings, and Steven Finn hailed their "scenario practice".
ecb.co.uk’s GoPro, featured in the video below, gives fascinating footage from the heart of the action as Eoin Morgan’s squad prepared to face Sri Lanka on Saturday night at the Wellington Regional Stadium.
Sri Lanka’s defeat of Bangladesh today heightens the importance of an England win, so their training session was ideal preparation to take on the World Twenty20 holders.
Finn, England’s leading wicket-taker in this World Cup with eight scalps, said: "Scenario practice is probably the best sort of practice you can do because you see where the ball gets hit and you're not fantasising about where your fielders are like in the nets.
"There are fielders there and you can see where the ball is going. There's no kidding yourself when it comes to scenario practice in the middle and it is probably the best sort of practice and the practice I enjoy."
Despite his eight breakthroughs, Finn has had a mixed time at this tournament.
His five victims versus Australia featured a hat-trick in the last three balls of the innings but came at a cost of 71 runs from 10 overs. He was then pummelled by New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum as his two overs went for 49 runs. But Finn responded with England’s outstanding bowling against Scotland, taking 3-26 from nine overs.
Ahead of England’s return to the Wellington Regional Stadium, where they lost heavily to the Black Caps, Finn is upbeat.
"(The ball) feels as though it is coming out of my hands nicely," he explained.
"I got met by Brendon McCullum the other day at the 'Cake Tin' but in the situation of that game it could have happened to anyone. To come back against Scotland and bowl relatively nicely and to get a few wickets as well was pleasing.
"I'm looking to build on those performances. I'm obviously not completely satisfied or happy with them because of the two games we've lost so far. It is a starting block to build from and hopefully as we go through this tournament I can keep building momentum with my bowling as well."
Among their first three World Cup games, England and Sri Lanka have each played one in Australia and two in New Zealand.
Conditions in the latter country are similar to those in England but differ greatly to those in Sri Lanka, so Finn is hopeful he and his team-mates can overcome opponents who beat them 5-2 in a one-day series late last year.
"We played them in their conditions in Sri Lanka and we lost unfortunately," he added.
"With the side that we have now and the people we have in the team and the time we've had to become accustomed to conditions over here, I think that Sunday is going to be a very good game and hopefully we can use the conditions to our advantage."