Morgan Previews Pakistan v England IT20 Series

25 Nov 2015 | Cricket
Captain Eoin Morgan believes England have made outstanding progress in limited-overs cricket this year, but has urged his side to keep pushing the boundaries.
The tourists go into their three-match International T20 series against Pakistan on the back of a 3-1 win in the one-day internationals in the United Arab Emirates.
That success followed victory over World Cup runners-up New Zealand at the start of the summer, a series in which England posted 400 from 50 overs for the first time, and a narrow defeat to world champions Australia.
Australia were beaten in a 20-over thriller in Cardiff, in which Morgan starred, and the captain sees no reason for England to alter their bold new approach.
Our strategy is quite simple - to continue testing ourselves, our ability, regardless of any situation we play, he said ahead of tomorrow's game in Dubai.
We are trying to test our boundaries and capabilities as players.
We don't know what our boundaries are at the moment, so it's important to keep pushing them as far as we can.
I think our progress since the start of the summer has been outstanding.
We continue to push our boundaries, and the opposition, at every stage of the game.
With a World Twenty20 in India less than six months away, Morgan is eager to ensure that any learning curves are scaled quickly.
We've never taken a negative step, a backward step, since we've come together as a squad, he added.
As long as that continues, and we're really honest with ourselves and learn along the way, it will hold us in good stead for the Twenty20 World Cup.
Jos Buttler scored the fastest ODI century by an English player, off only 46 deliveries, in England's series-clinching triumph on Friday.
That followed maiden format tons for Alex Hales and Jason Roy in the Middle East.
And Morgan is delighted with the potential of his young side.
He added: I'm really excited; I think we have a lot more to offer.
We're going to come up against similar challenges (to the ODIs) but are obviously going to have to be a lot more aggressive.
I think it will be brilliant preparation (for India).
Leading up to the World Cup at the start of the year, we had exceptional preparation - and it didn't really come to fruition.
We are lucky our squad doesn't change a great deal from one-day to Twenty20, and that's been aided by the fact we've changed the brand we play in ODIs, so it also is very relevant in Twenty20.