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AHMEDABAD, March 15: India have exposed England’s “weakness” in handling slow conditions but competing here will only prepare them well for the Twenty20 World Cup, feels skipper Eoin Morgan.
India drubbed England by seven wickets in the second T20 to level the five-match series 1-1 on Sunday night.
Morgan admitted they struggled to get used to the slow surface used for the second match.
“I suppose the difference was in the wicket we played and how we adapted. It was different wicket from the one we batted in the first game. The pitch was slow and low and one thing that does is expose our weakness on these surfaces a little bit,” said Morgan at the post-match virtual media interaction on Sunday night.
“We don’t play a lot on slow, low wickets and the more that we can do that, the better. You only become better in these conditions by playing in them and making mistakes.”
The English skipper, however, said playing in such tough conditions ahead of the ICC World T20 later this year in India, will only help them.
“I thought the other night, the pitch really suited us because it had more pace in it – similar to a wicket at home, a Cardiff wicket or somewhere like that, that was a little bit uneven and maybe stood up a little bit.
“But this took us out of our comfort zone and really was a typical Indian wicket that we would play on in an IPL game. Again, your accuracy has to be on,” Morgan said.
“You tend to learn quicker if you’re winning and confident and everything goes reasonably smoothly – you can integrate the learning quite quickly – but equally, if we have to learn the hard way, we’re still going through that process of trying to learn game-on-game so when it comes to the World Cup in seven months’ time, we can be as best prepared.”
Morgan said England were below-par in all departments of the game on Sunday, compared to their eight-wicket win in the series opener.
The third match of the series will be played on a red soil pitch and Morgan feels spinners will definitely come into the picture on Tuesday.
“The next game is on the red soil that looks like Ayers Rock so it’s probably going to turn,” Morgan said.
“These are the challenges that we want to play against. Regardless of how we do in the series we want to learn as much as we can and get that experience under our belt for the World Cup.
Morgan expects Mark Wood to be fit for the next game after he missed the second T20. (PTI)

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