Towards the end of Sunday’s second T20 against West Indies at Bridgetown, Eoin Morgan and Paul Collingwood, England’s captain and coach, one on the pitch and another on the bench, endured a similar experience: balls being pummelled high over their heads and lightbulbs going off in them.
As New Zealand demonstrated in the T20 World Cup semi-final in November and West Indies re-emphasised, when from a near-impossible position they flayed the bowling to such an extent that they ended up losing by one run, England’s death bowling is an issue, and one to which they have themselves contributed. Morgan has deliberately sheltered his side from the pressures of defending a total, having not chosen to bat first since September 2016. But on Tuesday Collingwood said that approach has now changed.
