A LACK OF GAMECRAFT, NOT SKILL, LED TO ENGLAND’S DUNEDIN DEMISE

Derek Pringle analyses just what went wrong for England on Tuesday night when victory was surely in their grasp

Indiscipline: captain Eoin Morgan was one of the England men who threw aways their wickets

England may go on to win the one-day series against New Zealand but they should really have wrapped it up in Dunedin the other night. Eoin Morgan ascribed the defeat, by five wickets, to a lack of skills among his middle-order batsmen, but that was wrong. It was application that was lacking, not skill, which the team has in abundance.
And there you have the nub of t...

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