Friday 24 June 2016 13:31, UK
After an encouraging 12 months for England’s one-day team, captain Eoin Morgan has revealed his blueprint for the side.
In an interview with Nick Knight, Morgan, who has captained England in white-ball cricket since last year's World Cup in Australia, spoke of the need for variation as well as discussing what he expects from his team in each discipline - batting, bowling and fielding.
Read on to find out what Morgan has been impressed with and the areas in which he feels his side need to improve...
Batting
With the side at the moment, our batting has come a really, really long way in 12 months and it has really driven our confidence up. We've grown into a side where we feel comfortable batting first and can bat a side out of a game or feel comfortable chasing. That confidence rubs off on our fielding, our bowling and it's where we're at at the moment.
With the performances Jos Buttler has put in, he's been elevated when it's felt right. There has also been Joe Root's success - he's been the glue for us, probably in all forms of cricket. It's great having that weight of runs behind you and being allowed to push Jos up the order has been very successful for us too.
Bowling
We're always looking for new ideas. With the success we've had in the last 12 months, the couple of series that we have won, alongside that is looking back at how everyone has performed and how unique every individual is. I think that is the same with our bowling unit, having the right balance in our attack and encouraging everybody to actually stick with what their strengths are.
There are a few ways of getting a batsman out. When you get the stage of the innings where a batsman is teeing off or coming quite hard at you, there's always a stage where you have to back your strength ahead of his. When it comes head-to-head, you need to stand at the end of your mark and know that you are going to execute what you are trying to do in order to take a wicket.
One of the main things we learned from the 50-over World Cup was that we need variation in our side. So that potentially means a left-arm seam bowler, a genuine quick who bowls 90mph and then your steady, reliable guy who hits a length and bowls a bit at the death.
It's important to keep trying to evolve your squad, I think if we went down the route of picking players because we thought they were good but they were all the same, I don't think that's the right answer. I think it's important to have variation throughout. In a 50-over game it's difficult to take wickets in the middle period so you need that variation and those options in order to create different angles and force a mistake from the batsman.
Fielding
We have a very talented fielding unit, all the guys are selected not just because their good at batting or bowling - they're athletes. Some of them are very, very fit men. There are no excuses as to where we're at, the only thing I can point at is lack of experience.
In those big pressure moments you need to recognise that it's a big part of the game and that is when good sides step up and take catches or hit the stumps or produce that match-winning Yorker. We're looking for guys to do that. We can be a bit more patient with our fielding because we have all the attributes to do that, it's just a matter of keeping a cool head.
Watch the full Nick Knight interview with Eoin Morgan in the video above...
