Eoin Morgan not too disappointed after losing the first T20I to New Zealand – Cricket news
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 and praised his boys for putting up a great fight.
Having won the toss, Morgan decided to bowl first, which did not turn out to be the right decision as the visitors were off to a great start through http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamish-Duncan-Rutherford-c61359, who smashed the English bowlers and notched up a brilliant 62 off merely 35 balls in which
he struck six fours and four massive hits out of the park.
As a result, the Black Caps posted a huge total of 201 runs on the board for the loss of four wickets in their allotted 20 overs.
English batsmen brought their team back into the match, with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373 taking the attack to the Kiwi bowlers. However, the Poms fell short of the target by five runs.
While expressing his views in the post-match presentation ceremony, the English skipper said that he is satisfied with the showing of his batsmen but thinks that they could have crossed the line on a wonderful batting track.
England lost the final of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 on Sunday, with their batsmen self-imploding in the last three overs of the match. Morgan thinks that the English side put up a better fight as compared to the final.
“The guys showed some great character,” http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 captain said. “We thought it was a chaseable total. It would be very specific stuff to look back on what we could have done better, and margins are very small. It's not as frustrating as the other night, today
is a great performance with the young guys we had here. We have a fantastic run chase record and with the short boundary the guys had confidence.”
With the last encounter of the series scheduled to be played tomorrow at the Oval, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morgan-c77707 and company would love to settle the scores by beating the Kiwis, who have been quite impressive in the limited-overs version of the sport in recent times.
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