{"id":295377,"date":"2023-10-30T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=295377"},"modified":"2023-10-30T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:09:11","slug":"england-have-no-issues-in-their-camp-claims-matthew-mott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/%d1%81ricket\/england-have-no-issues-in-their-camp-claims-matthew-mott\/","title":{"rendered":"England have NO issues in their camp, claims Matthew Mott"},"content":{"rendered":"
Head coach Matthew Mott denied there were issues in the England camp after former captain Eoin Morgan claimed their World Cup woes were down to something deeper than a collective loss of form.<\/p>\n
Speaking after England had slumped to an unprecedented fifth defeat, losing to India by 100 runs in Lucknow, Mott insisted: ‘I don’t think that at all.<\/p>\n
‘Anyone inside our tent at the moment would say that, despite our results, we’re an incredibly tight-knit unit – to the point where Dave Humphreys, the former rugby international, was flabbergasted how tight the unit was when he came in for a week to observe us given the results we’ve had.<\/p>\n
‘There’s every opportunity when you’re losing to splinter and go other ways. But I can only say from my opinion the group’s been incredibly strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘You see our training sessions, they’re full of fun. It’s easy to do that when you’re winning but a lot harder when you’re losing and I’m proud we just keep trying to get up.’<\/p>\n
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England head coach Matthew Mott (right) denied England’s issues run deeper than a poor run<\/p>\n
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His side suffered their fifth defeat in six World Cup matches on Sunday, losing to hosts India<\/p>\n
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Former England captain Eoin Morgan said England’s loss of form ‘doesn’t make any sense whatsoever’ and that he thinks ‘there’s something else going on’<\/p>\n
Morgan had told Sky Sports<\/span>: ‘I’ve never come across a sports team that has underperformed like this England team, given the level of expectation that is on their shoulders.’<\/p>\n And Morgan ridiculed the loss-of-form theory, saying: ‘Given how strong the team is, that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I think there’s something else going on – there has to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘England have gone away from what has worked for them for a long time – and in the space of three weeks.’<\/p>\n Mott, who worked briefly with Morgan before he retired from international cricket during England’s tour of the Netherlands in the summer of 2022, said: ‘Eoin’s entitled to his opinion and he’s obviously been away for a couple of weeks with the birth of his child.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n England are bottom of the World Cup group stage in what has been a dismal title defence<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Current skipper Jos Buttler (right) said England’s performance was ‘the same old story’<\/p>\n ‘He hasn’t been in and around the rooms. I’ll certainly take that up with him and have a chat to him. We’ve got a really good relationship, so if he’s seeing something I’m not I’ll definitely have that conversation.’<\/p>\n Meanwhile, captain Jos Buttler suggested that any answers to England’s ongoing struggles were ‘on a postcard’.<\/p>\n ‘I’m very disappointed,’ he said. ‘At the halfway stage, chasing 230, we would have fancied ourselves. But it was the same old story.<\/p>\n ‘It’s all about execution. The answer is on a postcard. It was a great start in the powerplay by the bowlers, and the ground fielding was good. But the way we batted, we didn’t back that up.’<\/p>\n