Reaching T20 World Cup final will be an achievement: Morgan | Cricket News – Times of India

Dubai: England Missing many of his top players due to injuries and captain Eoin Morgan He believes that it will be an achievement if he can take this team to the final of the ICC T20 World Cup here.
England is without the services of star cricketers like Ben Stokes, jofra archer and Sam Curran. opener Jason Roy He was also ruled out of the remainder of the tournament due to a calf injury during his last match against South Africa.
“I think it will be a really strong representation of what the 50-over team has achieved since 2015,” Morgan said.
“I think we had a glimpse of it during the summer when we had to replace 15 players against Pakistan and they beat Pakistan’s strongest ODI team 3-0,” Morgan said.
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face of england New Zealand In the first semi-final on Wednesday and even though the ODI world champions finished top of their group in the Super 12, Morgan doesn’t think they are a “strong favourite”.
“I wouldn’t say strong favourites. New Zealand have all the power. We have definitely been hit with a lot of injuries throughout this tournament,” Morgan said. .
“We are playing really good cricket. People are very excited about the challenge against New Zealand and the potential opportunity after that. But we need to play really good cricket to beat them.”
Morgan said New Zealand have consistently reached the knockout stages of major tournaments over the years and they will be a big challenge to face.
“We know how good New Zealand are. We know how consistent they have been over the last World Cup, not only recently but you look back and forth from Kane’s role as captain,” he added.
“New Zealand have always been extremely competitive in and around the semi-finals and final for some time now. So we are looking forward to the challenge.”
English cricket was rocked by a racism scandal when the former Yorkshire player was exposed azeem rafiq Was the victim of racial harassment and bullying.
Morgan said the issue of racism was as relevant as the team’s sporting success and that he “continues to talk” about it.
“We certainly don’t shelve anything, especially serious and relevant things to our squad that we’ve ever done, really,” he said.
“So when matters of such a serious nature sometimes arise, especially when it comes to discrimination and keep in mind that we talk about discrimination a lot because there is a lot of diversity, a lot of diversity in our group.
“After winning the 2019 World Cup and becoming a much stronger team with a bigger platform, which has allowed us to feel comfortable enough to tell our different stories… to be a really strong role model on the field. For.”

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