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Reaction from Eoin Morgan after Sri Lanka comfortably beat England by nine wickets at the Cricket World Cup in New Zealand

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SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain: (Q. "300 is the total you've been saying you wanted. You got it quite comfortably and didn't defend it. That must have been terribly disappointing. Do you think you were below par at the end?")

"No, absolutely not. Going in at the halfway I think we got 310, probably 25 for both par, and again, stats back that up, par is 275, 280. Again, if you can build pressure at any stage, it can be perceived as more pressure because the outfielders and how slow it is. Yeah, we were happy going into the halfway stage, absolutely. Root had put in a great performance. Showed us class again, which is great. But when we bowl one bad bowl, every couple of overs or every over you're going to be punished."
(Q. "So it was a bowling performance that was not quite up to speed today?")
"Yeah, we created a couple of chances which went down, which is always disappointing because it hasn't been happening in training. So, yeah, that was disappointing."

SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain: (Q. "With the bowling though, is it a question of just the guys making mistakes or is it that the tactic you bring to this game is just a bit too predictable? I mean, Thirimanna has come in and he's a young man very full of himself. But his inference was the bowling was quite easy for him because he could predict what was going to happen?")

"We bowled a lot of bad balls. Over the next couple of days we'll get the 'HawkEye' stuff back and the proof will be in that, but my feeling is we bowled a lot of bad balls. Have we been too predictable? You look at the best sides, the best bowlers, and they're predicted to be good. When we're firing, we are predictably good. We have two tall guys that are very effective. Get bounce, get pace, and the guys swing the ball, and Moeen does his job. That's the balance of our attack. Rooty gets a bit of a bowl here and there. But when we bowl well, we put sides on the pressure and create opportunities, today we didn't."

SOUNDBITE (English) Eoin Morgan, England captain: (Q. "You now are one loss away from nearly being dumped out of the World Cup. How scary a thought is that with two games to go in the pool play?)

"It's not even a thought at the moment. Two games to win to get us into a quarter-final."