England still confident despite spin debacle: Kieswetter – Cricket News Update
Despite their complete failure in tackling the Indian spin bowlers, resulting in their worst ever defeat in the T20I format, England wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Twenty20 2012.
“It was a disappointing performance,” Craig Kieswetter said. “We've played spin well; we've beaten Sri Lanka, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the sub-continent before. It was just a bad performance.
“We're not getting too down about it,” he went on to add. “Confidence is still high; we're still playing some great cricket and we're pretty glad we've got that game out of the way at the best time possible.”
Playing spin has proven a difficult nut for the English batsmen to crack at the best of times, and although former master players of spin http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Alan-Gooch-c60530 have mentored the young team in the art, the Poms went on to witness a complete batting order collapse during their last group stage match of the World T20, against India on September 23.
Chasing 171, England crumbled against the spin duo of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla (2/13) – Kieswetter top-scored for the team with a meagre 35 runs (accumulated largely before the spin bowlers were brought on) and England found themselves restricted to 80, all out – their lowest total in the format yet. Luckily, both teams had already qualified for the Super Eights stage, and the defeat did not cost the Poms.
“What's done is done. We did what we needed to do and qualified and now we're through to the business part of the competition,” Kieswetter said.
With the Super Eights stage of the tournament fast-approaching, the England team will need to adapt to conditions quickly, as their spin travails are far from over – their first match in the next stage of the tournament is scheduled to be played against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 batsmen.
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