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England captain Eoin Morgan holds the trophy after their 3-0 T20I series win over South Africa in Newlands on December 1, 2020.
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England captain of a day Eoin Morgan He said Thursday that he would continue to use signals from the team’s balcony.
Television coverage during the third Twenty20 international match against South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town on Tuesday captured images of numbers and letters displayed by video analyst Nathan Leamon.
“There have been no real signs,” Morgan said.
“There has always been constant communication, verbal or physical, from the locker room to the field to help improve my decisions as captain and Jos Buttler’s decisions as vice-captain,” Morgan said.
He said the England team did their research before a match and that any signs were intended to show how the data might have changed during the match.
“It is something that we have used a lot before the game and now we are experimenting in the game to see if we can improve our performance on the field.”
Morgan revealed that signals had been used in all three T20 games.
“There were not many decisions that varied from mine. I think there were three in the first game, two in the second and a pair in the third,” Morgan said before a three-day series against South Africa. starting in Newlands on Friday.
He said he believed the tactical innovation was “100 percent in the spirit of the game.”
It was previously reported that England’s camp had approved their plan to use signals with match officials before the first match.
“We are definitely going to continue with him to give him a sufficient sample size to see if he improves our decision making in the field,” Morgan said.
