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“When you’re beaten by a better team you have to raise your hands sometimes and say well played. Today that’s the case.”
Last Updated: 09/16/20 11:26 pm
Eoin Morgan says England were beaten by the best team in the third ODI
England captain Eoin Morgan admitted Australia was “too good” for his team, as the tourists clinched the ODI series with a thrilling three-course victory at Emirates Old Trafford.
Centuries of Alex Carey and Glenn Maxwell brought Australia to the brink of victory in the decisive third ODI, but England stayed in contention as they discarded the pair in quick succession to leave the visitors needing 10 from the final.
Mitchell Starc, who had taken two wickets on two balls to start the match, landed them on a six and a four from Adil Rashid to inflict England’s first loss in a two-way ODI series since January 2017 and the first at home since 2015, again for Australia.
“We were still in the game (going into the last switch),” Morgan said. “When you can break big associations and the ball delivers a little bit and it probably gets harder to hit as the innings go, you’re never out of the game.
“Having someone like Adil Rashid also gives us that option, even when the game is slipping away from us. But Australia, given their performance today, it was too good for us.”
7:17 Action from a centuries-old thrilling ODI final for Glenn Maxwell and Alex Carey led Australia to a three-wicket victory over England.
“I think it started at the first switch, losing two wickets without runs and then posting more than 300 is a very positive thing for us. I think Jonny Bairstow was outstanding today, well supported by Sam Billings and Chris Woakes again with the bat.
“After tying Australia to the first fields, we thought we were right in the game, but Australia fought very hard, Carey and Maxwell played extraordinarily well and we couldn’t get them out, which obviously cost us the game at the end.”
England were left to mourn the missed opportunities with Carey ruled out on a Jofra Archer no-ball in the 9th and Maxwell downed by Jos Buttler on Rashid in the 44th, but Morgan refused to dwell on them and says the summer has been positive. for targets -lateral to the ball.
“The little opportunities that we could have taken advantage of if we had been at the top of our game were pleading,” he added. “But still, when you get beaten by a better team, you need to raise your hands sometimes and say well played. Today it is.
Sam Billings was one of the players who pressed his claims during the summer.
“I think we have done extraordinarily well, I think the experiment of growing up and learning about our biggest team, while the priority has been test cricket, has been a good and worthwhile exercise.
“Some guys have come in and taken opportunities with both hands, guys like Sam Billings and Dawid Malan have been brilliant. And probably more recently, when we’ve been closer to our strongest team available to us, the guys have stood up, which it’s been brilliant. “
As Morgan prepares to address the IPL, along with several members of his England team, the coronavirus pandemic means it is unclear when they will play together.
A white-ball tour of South Africa is tentatively scheduled for November, but wherever England’s next engagement may be, Morgan believes the biosecurity bubbles the ECB has created have provided a model from which other nations can learn.
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“From where we were five months ago, to have had a full string of international matches and to have cricket on television again is huge for the game,” he said.
“I think we have pioneered and mapped out exactly how to get cricket back on track. Given that we have had no positive cases within the bubble, I think it is a very good example and one that all teams in the world will consider.”
“If they can model it exactly like this it might be a bit more challenging, but I think the ECB has done an exceptional job.”
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