Dubai: England lost a number of their top players due to injury and captain Eoin Morgan felt it would be a “hell of achievement” if he could lead this team to the ICC T20 World Cup final here.
England without Star Cricketers services such as Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Sam Curran.
Jason Roy’s opening was also ruled out from the rest of the tournament after suffering a calf injury during their last match against South Africa.
“I think it will be a very strong representation of what has been achieved from the 50-over side since 2015,” Morgan said when asked where he would rank his appearance at the T20 World Cup among his white ball achievement as captain.
“I think we saw that during our summer when we had to replace 15 players against Pakistan and they finally beat Pakistan’s strongest ODI team 3-0,” Morgan said.
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I think if we can achieve something like that, yes, close enough, oh, you might just get to the final and lose, but until the final will be an achievement.” England faced New Zealand in the first semifinal on Wednesday and although ODI world champions topped their group at Super 12, Morgan did not feel they were “strong favorites”.
“I will not say a strong favorite.
New Zealand has full forces .
“We play very good cricket.
The people are very excited about the challenges against New Zealand and potentially a chance that might follow it.
But we need to play very good cricket to defeat them.” Morgan said New Zealand consistently reached the autumn stage of major tournaments for years and it would be a big challenge to deal with it.
“We know how good New Zealand.
We know how consistently they have been going on for the last number of World Cups, not only the latest but you look further and beyond Kane’s role as captain,” he said.
“New Zealand is always very competitive in and around the semifinals and the final, consistently, for some time now.
So we look forward to challenges.” English Cricket was rocked with a racist scandal when it appeared that the former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq was a victim of racial and intimidation harassment.
Morgan said the problem of racism was equally relevant to the success of playing teams and they “kept chatting” about it.
“We certainly don’t protect anything that happens, especially things that are serious and equally relevant to our troops as anything we’ve ever done, really,” he said.
“So when things from serious nature have ever appeared, especially when it concerns discrimination and remember that we are talking about quite a lot of discrimination because in our group there are many diverse, many diversity.” After winning the 2019 World Cup and became a more resilient side with a larger platform, which has allowed us to feel comfortable enough to tell our different stories …
in the end it feels comfortable in our own skin to play big cricket in The field but also a really strong role model in the field.
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