Press Trust of India
New Delhi, March 27: England captain Eoin Morgan stated here Saturday night that he did not come into the ICC World T20 with an aim of achieving a specific target but the endeavour has always been to get the best out of the available resources.
Asked if he had expected at the start that England will qualify for the semifinals, Morgan said: “I don’t expect a great deal to be honest. I don’t set expectations, barriers or limitations. It’s all about getting the best out of what we have and at the moment and we seem to be doing that. If we do that from here on in, we put ourselves in really good position.”
Morgan is happy that the T20 unit has shown a lot of character in recent times by winning pressure games. “Three of the four games, we played, we fought off pressure to win. To chase down 230 against South Africa, needed a lot of character,” pointed out Morgan.
“It gave us a great deal of confidence. Then here, Sri Lanka, riding on the knock of (Angelo) Mathews really had us on the wall. But we adapted, the bowlers like Chris (Jordan) played smart cricket and here we are in the semifinals,” he added.
Morgan also admitted that it was advantageous to have already played a match at the Feroze Shah Kotla here where they are likely to take on the Black caps in the semifinal. “The way I look at it is: their strength is spin, our strength is seam. But then we can again adapt. We can bowl eight overs of seam, it can be 12 if (Joe Root) Rooty comes on,” he pointed out.