England responded after back-to-back World Cup losses with a 31-run win over India.

We did what we do best on Sunday. We put runs on the board and put India under pressure in their run-chase.

It was an unbelievable start by openers Jason Roy (66) and Jonny Bairstow (111). Between them, they shared a 160-run first-wicket partnership which was just the platform we needed.

For Roy to come straight back into the team after his hamstring injury and score a half-century, that is testament to his character and belief.

Joe Root will be frustrated he got out for 44. Once he has got in and has faced more than 50 balls in a one-day game, generally, he goes big. But he missed out, really, on this occasion.

Then, there was a nice cameo of 79 from 54 balls from Cumbrian all-rounder Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler also chipped in with a quickfire 20 off only eight balls.

For India, I felt the way Jasprit Bumrah bowled at the death was phenomenal. To bowl in the powerplay overs at the start and at the end of an innings, and to end with figures of 1-44, that’s unbelievable on a belting pitch at Edgbaston.

After England had made such an impressive start, I think you potentially could have looked at moving the likes of Stokes, Buttler or Eoin Morgan up the order to bat ahead of Root.

In my opinion, maybe that was a time where Root could have dropped down the order a little bit and we could have seen if we could continue to go hard. Then, if we started to struggle a bit, Root could have come in and helped us to get through the 50 overs. I thought England missed a trick there.

In the build-up to the match, there was a bit of a war of words between Bairstow and former England captain Michael Vaughan.

Vaughan has given his opinion and Bairstow has given his. I think Bairstow, sometimes, just needs to get into a bit of a fight to help him get stuck in and perform at his best.

Obviously, he did. There were some words exchanged between Vaughan and Bairstow but, ultimately, I know Vaughan wants Jonny to do well and Jonny wants to do well for England. They both want the same thing.

With the ball, Chris Woakes (2-58) and Liam Plunkett (3-55) really led the way for England.

Plunkett has a great role in the side, coming on as a first-change bowler. He takes wickets, he is aggressive and he generally has a little bit more of a spread field when he is bowling which helps.

He takes wickets and that’s exactly what England need on flat wickets when the ball is a lot softer and the seam has gone. At that stage, you need someone with a bit of pace or a bit of mystery spin to change things up slightly.

Plunkett did an absolutely brilliant job for us.

India actually started quite well and Rohit Sharma, who scored 102 for India, is absolutely top-class.

Apart from KL Rahul who went for a duck, the rest of India’s batsmen all got in from their top five. Once they have faced more than 30-odd balls, you would expect players of that calibre to get 50, 60 or 70, but we kept chipping away and we got wickets at the right times to earn a well-earned victory.

England now need to look to perform at the levels they did at the weekend throughout the rest of the World Cup as they play their final group-stage game against New Zealand today in what could prove to be a sudden-death showdown.

We know we are capable of playing at that level. You are always looking for your ultimate performance, where your batting, bowling and fielding all comes together.

Against India, we showed signs we are getting there and we are close to putting in a complete performance.

New Zealand will provide England with another test at Chester-le-Street. They have a good bowling attack.

For me, Martin Guptill has been the one who has struggled for them in this tournament. He is a good player and he has done well around the world, but he hasn’t quite hit top form this summer.

New Zealand will come into the clash on the back of two straight defeats against Pakistan and Australia, but both sides will still hope to be involved in the semi-finals and will know they will have to win today if they want to guarantee their place.

There is plenty of experience in the current New Zealand team.

Trent Boult is a high-class cricketer, Colin de Grandhomme has been around for a while and Lockie Ferguson had a spell at Derbyshire, while Kane Williamson and Mitchell Santner have both had stints over here, as well.

So, they have quite a few experienced players who have played around the world.

In my opinion, Guptill is the one who can be a game-changer at the start of the innings, but he just hasn’t really got going.

On paper, New Zealand have an exceptional side, it’s just a case that their batting seems to be letting them down a bit.

The nice thing which I am taking from this World Cup is Bangladesh and Afghanistan are both playing really good cricket. It’s fantastic to see the gap between them and the really top nations has got smaller.

The main five or six sides have to be really focused to beat these sides now, which is a brilliant thing for international cricket.