Eoin Morgan calls England's batting display as their worst in two and a half years
England suffered a middle-order collapse in the final T20I against India in Bengaluru which their captain Eoin Morgan has described as the "worst England performance in two and a half years". The visitors lost their last eight wickets for just eight runs, triggered by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
England appeared to be in a strong position with two set batsmen at the crease and 86 required off 42 balls. Only a couple of overs earlier Morgan had hit Suresh Raina for 22 runs and the game looked destined to go right till the end on a batsman-favoured track. Over the next nineteen balls, England lost eight wickets and India ended up winning the last match by a massive 75 runs to clinch the series 2-1.
"I can't put a finger on it. We haven't produced a batting performance as bad as that in two or two and a half years. We pride ourselves on our batting, it has been a strong suit for a long time but this series our bowlers have outperformed our batsmen I think," Morgan said.replied,
"It does hurt. Very disappointing. Maybe 60% of the game we were competitive and right in amongst it but fell away terribly in the end. Committed a cardinal sin of losing two
England's biggest partnership was the 64-run stand between Morgan and Joe Root. The English captain did, however, say that one of the two had to play a long innings to take the game till the very end.
"I thought we were going quite well. A majority of the runs at this ground are always scored in the last 10 overs. Bangalore have done it extremely well for a long period of time and India did well today. So, I think we needed 110 off the last 10 maybe with eight wickets in the shed," Morgan told a post-match news conference.said in a candid press conference, reported Cricinfo.
"If a better performance from either me or Joe - a 70 or 80 from me or him and if the two of us seeing off - and a couple of guys batting around us could have made a huge difference."
Morgan said defeat in the ODI series hurt the visitors more than the T20 loss.
"We had performances in the one-day series that were potentially worthy of winning. In this series probably the last game [in Nagpur] hurt us more. The game got away from us, we should have won. Today we underperformed and we weren't good enough," Morgan said.
"I don't think [there will be a lingering feeling]. If there was a consistent run of performances like that it would hurt to fail again. But like I said, our batting has been outstanding for a long time and tonight it wasn't anywhere near as it should be."
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