KANDY: England captain Stuart Broad has ruled out promoting Eoin Morgan up the batting order saying that the left-hander’s unorthodox batting is more suited to the middle overs.
Walking in to bat at number five against West Indies, Morgan smashed four fours and five sixes in his unbeaten 71 off 36 balls, but England still fell 15 runs behind in their first Super Eight match of the World Twenty20 on Thursday.
Morgan’s pyrotechnics convinced many that he should bat higher but Broad felt England needed the batsman’s skills more in the later overs.
“Morgan’s game is suited to finding the boundaries when the fielders are back. It’s an amazing skill which not everyone has,” Broad told reporters yesterday.
“He’s not overly suited to piercing the infield so the risk-reward for someone so valuable to the team may be too high for him to try to pierce the field when everyone’s in.
“If you lose Morgan in the first six overs you’re in big trouble.
“It was decided that his skills would be best used in the middle overs,” Broad told reporters.
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