Our Worst Batting Performance In Two-And-A-Half Years, Says Eoin Morgan After Bengaluru Loss

Feb 2, 2017 at 11:21 AM

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Our Worst Batting Performance In Two-And-A-Half Years, Says Eoin Morgan After Bengaluru Loss

After a dismal show in Test series, England looked a different side altogether in the limited-overs format. Eoin Morgan’s men gave the Indian team a run for their money in all three ODIs and the two T20Is before a disastrous performance in the series decider at Bengaluru, which is bound to shake their confidence to the core.

The visitors were 1-0 up in the T20I series and were then at the receiving end of two incorrect umpiring decisions in the second T20I which allowed India to level the series. With their batsmen in ominous form throughout the series, England would have hoped to end the series on a high but a disastrous collapse saw them losing the final T20I by 75 runs.

Chasing an imposing 203, England were well-placed at 119 for 2 with Morgan and Joe Root well set at the crease. However, they lost their remaining eight wickets for only 8 runs, handing India a comprehensive victory to bag the series 2-1.

As expected, English skipper Eoin Morgan said the performance of his team in Bengaluru was disappointing.

Speaking at the post-match conference, he said:

“It’s very disappointing. For maybe 60 per cent of the game we were competitive and right in amongst it, but fell away terribly towards the end. We committed a cardinal sin of losing two “in” players in one over. That allowed India to build up pressure, and we weren’t up to it at all. I will take my hat off to India, it was a performance worthy of winning the series.

“We haven’t produced a batting performance as bad as that in two, two and a half years. We pride ourselves on our batting, it’s been our strong suit for some time. But if anything’s to come of this series, our bowlers have outperformed our batsmen, I think.

“It’s a difficult balance, because the one thing you do want to do is rotate the strike. It actually gets your eye in, you get to watch the ball from both ends. It’s disappointing that we didn’t do that. Jos, that’s getting out. That’s not a bad piece of batting. It might have taken a bit of a smarter cricket to wrestle back momentum,” he added.

Morgan also admitted losing the closely-fought One-Day International series hurt more than losing the T20 series.

“The one-day series, there wasn’t a great deal in it,” said Morgan.

“There was 15-20 runs between the winning and the losing of the series. That’s hurt us more than losing this series. We weren’t good enough to win this series, but I thought we produced performances in the one-day series that were potentially worthy of winning. This series, the last game hurt us more. It was a game that we should have won that got away from us. Today, we underperformned. We weren’t good enough.”

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