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Morgan takes responsibility for New Zealand embarrassment

Saturday, February 21 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    England captain Eoin Morgan admits that 'everything went wrong' as his team slumped to an eight wicket defeat to New Zealand on Friday at the ICC Cricket World Cup in Wellington, New Zealand.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain

    "Yeah, the only thing that occurred this morning, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. If there's any -- if it looks like it's going to swing, obviously I have no worries in bowling first, because that's our biggest strength. The first ten overs if we can take three or four wickets in the game. But today everything about today just said bat, and I got it went wrong."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain

    "Disappointment more than anything. I think an element of credit has to be given to New Zealand and the way they bowled and fielded. With the benefit of hindsight, I wouldn't have won the toss and batted. If I knew it was going to swing for that long - 35 overs. And it swung throughout. They managed to built pressure in the times it didn't swing as well. So, again, credit goes to them. Probably the best bowling display we've come across since we've been down this side of the world which says a lot considering the amount we have played against Australia. But today we couldn't cope with it. They out-performed us."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain

    "Yeah, again, these first two games as you said are going to be difficult games against the two favourites in their home conditions. But we shouldn't be beaten by this amount. Maybe today we were out-skilled but certainly in the first game we played against Australia. We were way below par."
    Can you explain it?

    "We are not doing our basics right. We are not producing what we practice."

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