Eoin Morgan was at a loss to explain England's humbling defeat at Chester-le-Street, terming it "one of the worst performances I've been a part of in an England shirt". Morgan was leading the side in the absence of Alastair Cook, who was ruled out on the morning of the game with a groin strain, and presided over England's heaviest ODI defeat on home soil and their sixth-lowest
all-out total anywhere. England had won four ODIs on the bounce before this match but now they go to Old Trafford with their tail between their legs. "It's as badly as we can bat," Morgan said. "It was one of the worst performances I've been a part of, in an England shirt. I can't explain why we played that badly. "It was a little bit tacky, and nipped around a small bit - but we're good enough to negotiate that. It's a pitch we would have turned up at and said 'Yes, perfect, we'd love to play', especially against a side like Sri Lanka. But we've been outplayed." Morgan then tried to spin the margin of defeat as meaning England will be able to move on more quickly from the result than had it been a narrow
loss. "I don't think it's going to be a huge setback," he said. "I think it'd be a bigger one if we fell 40 runs short, had substance throughout the whole innings, looked like we were going to win.
Source - cricinfo
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