If this had been a football match, it would have been Southampton 4, Man City 1. England never recovered from a start so bad that it could have come straight from Australia, like Sam Billings. Another continent, another collapse. West Indies, tenth in the T20 table, were terrific in all three departments. “Tough times don’t last,” says the winning captain Kieron Pollard, “tough people do.”
That’s it from me. Thanks for your company and your correspondence, sorry not to get through it all. Simon Burnton’s match report will be along shortly and Tanya Aldred will be here tomorrow, from 7pm GMT, to talk us through the second episode of a series that has just got more interesting.
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Eoin Morgan is measured in defeat. “Not at all [the start we were after],” he says. “The opposite conditions to the practice match and we didn’t adapt well. Gotta come back tomorrow, fresh game plan, execute it better. It’s the nature of international cricket, you get tested, exposed to different challenges.”
