England’s skipper Alastair Cook says: Eoin http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morgan-c77707’s injury a big loss for team
England’s One Day International (ODI) skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on their home soil next month.
Morgan had suffered a shoulder injury during the ongoing series against India and will have to undergo a surgery in order to gain fitness. However, he will not be able to recover in time before his side visits India in October.
On the confirmation of Morgan’s omission from the Indian tour, Cook stated, “It’s obviously a massive loss. He’s an outstanding player. It’s gutting news for Eoin that he has to have this operation and miss a substantial amount of cricket and an important
tour.”
The left-handed opener further added, “Eoin’s been a hallmark of our batting, a fantastic middle-order ‘finisher’. But someone else now gets the opportunity to do that, and if we can develop more people in that role it can only strengthen our team.”
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373 is most likely to bat in the middle-order to finish the games for his side. However, it will not be an easy task for him to fill in the boots of the injured player.
The Poms have done well against India in the ongoing series, winning every game they have played apart from the first ODI, which was abandoned due to rain.
Cook was delighted with the outcome of the series until now and was looking forward to winning the next ODI at Lord’s in order to take the series. His side has been doing a great job in the limited-over cricket despite absence of some exceptional batsmen
like Morgan and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806.
However, it will be a different scenario all together once the British team visits India, as the Men in Blue have proved to be a dominant side on their home soil. They have recently won the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011 at home and will be looking forward to avenge
the humiliation which they suffered in the ongoing series.
However, the first task for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and his men will be to at least win one of the final two ODIs in order to avoid a whitewash defeat in all formats of the game.
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