England skipper, Eoin Morgan feels India has exposed England’s “weakness” in handling slow conditions but competing here in such conditions will only prepare them well for the Twenty20 World Cup India drubbed England by seven wickets in the second T20I to level the five-match series 1-1 on Sunday. Morgan acknowledged they struggled to get used to the sluggish track for the second match.
Talking about the same during the post-match press conference, Eoin Morgan said, “I suppose the difference was in the wicket we played and how we adapted. It was a different wicket from the one we batted in the first game. The pitch was slow and low and one thing that does is expose our weakness on these surfaces a little bit. We don’t play a lot on slow, low wickets, and the more that we can do that, the better. “
The English skipper, however, said playing in such tough conditions ahead of the ICC World T20 later this year in India, will only help them.
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Morgan explained, “I thought the other night, the pitch really suited us because it had more pace in it. But this took us out of our comfort zone and really was a typical Indian wicket that we would play on in an IPL game. You tend to learn quickly if you’re winning and confident and everything goes reasonably smoothly – you can integrate the learning quite quickly. we’re still going through that process of trying to learn game-on-game.”
The English skipper said England was below-par in all departments in the second game as compared to their eight-wicket win in the series opener. However, he also appreciated Ishan Kishan, who scored a 32-ball 56 on his international debut. Kishan and skipper Virat Kohli shared 94 runs for the second wicket to chase down England’s modest 164 for 6 with 13 balls to spare.
Eoin Morgan said, “Taking an early wicket was brilliant but India managed to get away from us quite quickly. Ishan Kishan played pretty well and managed to take the game away from us, and everything that we tried didn’t seem to work.”
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The third match of the series will be played on a red soil pitch and Morgan feels spinners will definitely come into the picture on Tuesday. He expects Mark Wood to be fit for the next game after he missed the second T20 due to a bruised heel.
