Eoin Morgan wants England improvement after Scotland defeat
Monday 11 June 2018 09:50, UK
Eoin Morgan admits England deserved to lose after Sunday's shock defeat at the hands of Scotland in Edinburgh.
England headed into the one-off one-day international as the number one-ranked ODI side in the world, but suffered a surprise defeat to Scotland - the first in their history - losing by six runs.
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The left-hander denied it was a wake up call, but has urged his team-mates to improve their consistency.
"I don't think it is a reality check," he said. "We have probably won games recently we didn't deserve to win and lost games we might have thought we were in the hunt to win.
"I thought the way we played today we didn't deserve to win it, we might have scraped past and won but there are still quite a few mistakes made that we need to rectify."
He added: "It's huge for Scotland.
"I'm not hugely disappointed, it was a good competitive game which was all we could have asked for.
"We didn't do enough to win, if we had won it would have been a bonus given the position we got ourselves in."
England move on to the Oval next where they open a five-match series against Australia on Wednesday, live on Sky Sports, and Morgan feels the shock defeat at the Grange would serve as the perfect warm-up for his players.
He said: "On the positive side we are better for the run we have had, it is better than having two days of training leading into a big series against Australia, so there are mistakes we made and hopefully we can learn from them."
