|| India Correspondent ||
India have bounced back well in the second T20I after having started with a defeat against England. However, England captain Eoin Morgan said that India have exposed their "weakness" in handling slow conditions but he also believes that competing on this wicket will only help them to prepare for the Twenty20 World Cup later this year.
Morgan said that they struggled to get used to the slow surface used for the second game and Team India won by 7 wickets. It is also noteworthy that, India will host the ICC T20 World Cup later this year.
"I suppose the difference was in the wicket we played and how we adapted. It was different wicket from the one we batted in the first game. The pitch was slow and low and one thing that does is expose our weakness on these surfaces a little bit," said Morgan at the post-match virtual media interaction. "We don’t play a lot on slow, low wickets and the more that we can do that, the better. You only become better in these conditions by playing in them and making mistakes."
"I thought the other night, the pitch really suited us because it had more pace in it – similar to a wicket at home, a Cardiff wicket or somewhere like that, that was a little bit uneven and maybe stood up a little bit. But this took us out of our comfort zone and really was a typical Indian wicket that we would play on in an IPL game. Again, your accuracy has to be on," he further added.
"You tend to learn quicker if you’re winning and confident and everything goes reasonably smoothly – you can integrate the learning quite quickly – but equally, if we have to learn the hard way, we’re still going through that process of trying to learn game-on-game so when it comes to the World Cup in seven months’ time, we can be as best prepared," he concluded.
Both India and England will play each other in the third T20I on March 16.