England Left With More Questions Than Answers
The Guardian|February 01, 2022
Lost T20 series in West Indies revealed little about the squad except that death bowling remains a big problem
- Simon Burnton
England Left With More Questions Than Answers

‘The whole tour is one where the development of our game is actually more important than the series win,” Eoin Morgan said before a ball was bowled. “Our level of intensity and our performance is far more important than the result, and actually the result looks after itself.”

The results did not, in the end, look after themselves. England leave Barbados defeated 3-2 in the T20 series but having participated in some gripping games in front of boisterous crowds. There is no shame in providing compelling entertainment and after a lopsided opening match, when on a poor pitch England were bowled out for 103 and West Indies won with ease, this series was tense throughout.

As well as featuring two wellmatched sides its success was largely down to scheduling. This was only the 14th five-game bilateral T20 series and it demonstrated how they allow narratives to emerge and intensity to build in a way that is impossible when there are fewer matches.

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