Harry Brook insisted that he is still searching for the "perfect game" from his England team at the T20 World Cup following their dramatic Super-8s win over New Zealand. 

Having already secured their spot in the semi-finals, England made it three wins from three with a four-wicket triumph on Friday, thanks to Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed's heroics. 

England needed 43 from the last 18 balls, and after Ahmed smashed a six, Jacks followed that up with one of his own, as well as two fours in Glenn Phillips' 18th over. 

Ahmed lofted Mitchell Santner for another six from the final ball of the 19th over, leaving five to get from the last, and England completed a fifth straight victory with three balls left. 

Indeed, their partnership of 44 was England's highest for the seventh wicket in a T20 World Cup match, with Jacks plundering four fours and one six, and Ahmed having one four and two maximums.

With a semi-final against India or West Indies on the horizon, Brook's response to being asked if England were peaking at the right time was: "I think so."

However, he was still left wanting more, adding: "We still haven't played that perfect game.

"But we've got over the line in close games, and that stands you in good stead going into the final stages."

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England have now won their last five T20Is in Asia, their best-ever run on the continent in the shortest format, but the day will belong to Jacks, who continues to impress. 

He has now scored 187 at the tournament, the most by a batter from number seven or below in a T20 World Cup campaign, surpassing Mike Hussey's 163 back in 2010. 

"He's a proper batter," Brook said. "There was one instance when we played against West Indies in the summer, and he leaned on the first ball through the covers for four, or two.

"It's a good sign. A lot of lower-order players block or wild swing. He's a proper batter, he's played Test cricket, and he's got immense power as well."

And Jacks was keen to revel in the moment, even suggesting that the display was one of the best he had been a part of in his international career. 

"I reckon this is the best. I'm absolutely buzzing with that," Jacks said. "To not be out at the end in a tight finish when the game was on a knife-edge, I'm over the moon.

"It's about keeping it simple. I think Rehan played a brilliant innings.

"Everyone who came out on that pitch struggled, and it took time to get the pace of it, how slow it was.

"But that six he hit the second ball off Glenn Phillips, just upped the ante and put them on the back foot.

"I was then able to just play off him there. The game was laid out there for us with the field and the conditions, so we tried to utilise that.

"The over off Phillips, we said 'we need to take a risk here.' I think it was 13 an over needed, and an off-spinner to two right-handers.

"We thought that was our match-up. For the other two, we talked about hitting the gaps hard and running hard.

"It's a massive boundary, so you're not always going to clear the field, and we got a couple of twos that over, which were crucial."