A WIN is a win is a win that is what Eoin Morgan will be telling England’s T20 team after they beat Pakistan in the deciding match at Emirates Old Trafford last week.
The match, played on a bare and sluggish pitch, was a good stress test for the kinds of challenges the team will face in this autumn’s World T20, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Lots of spin on grippy pitches has often proved a nemesis for England and might have done again at Old Trafford had Pakistan’s death bowlers made better choices. But Morgan’s team, as has been their wont, found a way when all...