Dubai: England captain Eoin Morgan is happy that his team started their T20 World Cup campaign on a winning note as spinner Moeen Ali took advantage of the conditions to beat the West Indies here on Saturday. Spinners Moeen Ali (2/17) and Adil Rashid (4/2) dominated the West Indies batting order to script England’s easy six-wicket win over the defending champions in a Super 12 Group 1 match.
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“It’s as good as it gets. All the credit for starting our campaign this way goes to our bowling unit. The guys were very disciplined, and we took our chances,” Morgan said in a post-match presentation, When England achieved the target of 56 runs in 8.2 overs. Moeen ended his spell brilliantly by bowling 18 dot balls. Giving away only 17 runs in his four overs. “I think Moeen Ali read the situations beautifully, when their match-up was in his favour, and took advantage of the opportunity to take his chances after the success he had in the IPL. Was fantastic.” Fast bowler Tymal Mills was also impressive as he also took two wickets for 17 runs in his four overs.
“I am happy for Big T. He has had unfortunate journeys at times, but he is now as good as I have ever seen him, especially with his fitness.” Morgan said David Malan was pushed down the order and not sent in. middle so that the necessary runs can be quickly knocked out. “We (thinking about net run rate, and stopped Malan), we wanted people to go after the bowling, but it was difficult on that pitch today.” Player of the match Moeen said that his stint in IPL winning team Chennai Super Kings has helped him.
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“The role at CSK is very important to me, I feel like I am always involved with bat and ball and on the field as well, and it was the perfect preparation coming into the World Cup.” Mid- To send back West Indies batsman Evin Lewis, he said, “A catch like this gives you a little bit of confidence, I think it calms my nerves a little bit. They have a lot of left-handers at the top.” So I knew I would bowl early.” West Indies captain Kieron Pollard admitted that it was an unacceptable performance from the West Indies batsmen, but said there was no need to press the panic button. “It was unacceptable, we accept it. Games like this sometimes, we just need to bin it. For us, it’s just a matter of finding our straps,” he said. “We haven’t batted well in our three matches so far. We went out, people tried to play their shots, and it didn’t work out. I don’t think there will be any panic in our camp.” The total of 55 was West Indies’ second lowest T20I total after 45 they made against similar opponents in 2019. It was 39 and 44 (both by the Netherlands). It was the third lowest total after T20 World Cup.
But, Pollard said this is not the first time something like this has happened to his team. “It’s the same, we just need to get it on our chest and move on, this is the international game. Obviously, we play a lot of cricket around the world and it’s not the first time that we’ve seen the world,” Pollard said. Have played cricket across the country, and we have the experience of playing such games. Fabian Allen getting a chance due to injury. Everything happens for a reason, and Akil Hossein showed us what he can do.” .
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