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Eoin Morgan says England are excited by the challenge of adding the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021 title to the 50-over crown they claimed two years ago.<\/p>\nEoin Morgan says England are excited by the challenge of adding the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021 title to the 50-over crown they claimed two years ago.<\/p>\n
Morgan led England to a memorable first ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup in 2019 on home soil and they are among the favourites to land the T20 equivalent in UAE and Oman this year.<\/p>\n
They are currently ranked No.1 in the MRF Tyres ICC Men\u2019s T20I team rankings and boast an experienced squad, with only Tom Curran aged under 28.<\/p>\n
England have lost just one of their last 11 T20I series and even that was a marginal 3-2 defeat to India earlier this year, while they arrive off the back of home victories against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Expectations are high then, and Morgan believes they have what it takes to replicate their 2019 50-over success.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be unbelievably special if we managed to do it (win another ICC world title) in three years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the group of players we have had for the past five or six years and some new really talented younger guys, makes a composition of the squad extremely strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying away from home creates challenges, and for the first time since 2016 we are going into a tournament where we haven\u2019t been favourites.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut these are challenges we are really looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n
England are joined in Group 1 of the Super 12 stage by rivals Australia, defending champions West Indies and the ever-dangerous South Africa, while two teams from Round 1 will complete the six-team group.<\/p>\n
England begin against West Indies in Dubai on Saturday but lost their opening warm-up game against India by six wickets.<\/p>\n
Morgan wouldn\u2019t be drawn on wider team news but did say that Liam Livingstone\u2019s finger injury sustained against Virat Kohli\u2019s side was not serious.<\/p>\n
The Lancashire all-rounder left the field after dropping Ishan Kishan on the boundary against India on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiam is fine and fully fit for the start of the tournament,\u201d confirmed the captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no other problems. None, touch wood, so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morgan said he would not necessarily play in every England match, suggesting he will drop himself if his poor recent form continues.<\/p>\n
Morgan averaged just 11.08 in the recent IPL for Kolkata Knight Riders and says he will not stand in the way of the team if his form continues to be a problem.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been short on runs but my captaincy has been pretty good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t come out of every bad run of form that I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n
“The nature of T20 cricket and where I bat means I always have to take high-risk options. I’ve come to terms with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eoin Morgan says England are excited by the challenge of adding the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021 title to the 50-over crown they claimed two years ago. Morgan led England to a memorable first ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup in 2019 on home soil and they are among the favourites to land the T20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket"],"yoast_head":"\n