England ‘s restricted overs captain Eoin Morgan has laughed off opinions suggesting that The Hundred is to cause why its Test group suffered a 4-0 Ashes defeat to Australia. Insisting that Test cricket has “always been the priority”, Morgan added that The Hundred is equally “a success”.
In an look on talkSPORT’s Following On podcast, Morgan mentioned: “People that use that as an excuse don’t watch cricket.
“Test match cricket has all the time been the precedence: it’s the format for our elite gamers. Obviously occasions in the meanwhile have been robust down in Australia through the Ashes [but] they all the time are: we’ve misplaced the final two sequence 5-0 and it’s no shock that Australia are very, excellent at dwelling.
“Given the prep the blokes have had the place since they’ve arrived in Australia, till the primary Test match, it has hammered it down with rain… it’s laughable.
“The Hundred is an unbelievable success. Our codecs in county cricket and the Hundred, in the way in which they’re structured, it’s precisely the identical as Australia’s.
“People want one thing in charge so that they’ll level at in all probability the furthest level to actuality, as a result of no person needs to say: ‘you know what, we haven’t had the prep we might have preferred, we in all probability haven’t performed as we’d have preferred, and we’ve misplaced’.
“People that use that as an excuse don’t watch Cricket. Test Match Cricket has always been the priority.” 🏏
“It’s laughable to point the finger at the Hundred. People need something to blame.” 👊
Eoin Morgan says white-ball Cricket isn’t in charge for England’s #Ashes defeat pic.twitter.com/RleiXNeikz
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“That happens in all formats, but I stress: Test match cricket has always been the priority.”
Morgan will lead England’s five-match T20 tour to the West Indies subsequent month the place Paul Collingwood would be the stand-in coach.
Squad in full:
Eoin Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, Tom Banton, Sam Billings, Liam Dawson, George Garton, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Tymal Mills, David Payne, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, James Vince.
