World T20: Morgan staying in the present

Kolkata - Morgan said they are not looking at the Windies as one-horse team.

This has been one amazing ride for Eoin Morgan. 
Installed as England's captain just before the 50-over World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, everyone knows how that panned out, Down Under.
But then, you win some, you lose some along the way. And that is part of the process to becoming a crack outfit.
The Irishman and the Australian tactician that is Trevor Bayliss, are plotting England's evolution and revolution in the shorter formats and they arrive at the scene where they spent some part of their life time - with the Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL.
After a no-show Down Under, they arrive here in the Indian sub-continent, to contest a final.
And that fact was not lost on Morgan.
"We're quite real about things, we know it's not going to be a normal game," Morgan said, matter-of-factly.
And he asked his men to embrace it and go out there and give it their best on the biggest of stages.
"Even The semifinal we played, there was quite a lot of hype around the expectation of playing in a final, and I want all of our players to embrace it, tomorrow everything will feel a little bit rushed to start with. It is important we are in the right frame of mind to slow it down when needed and more importantly execute our skills," he added.
Getting on the right side of the result would be dream for England.
"It would mean a huge amount, I think the strides that we've made in the last 12 months in white-ball cricket. This would be a great reward for the mindset we've shown, the dedication and the hard work,' Morgan said.
But then, England run into Chris Gayle again. India managed to kept the Jamaican quiet at the Wankhede and while England know that man can flay their attack out of this planet, Morgan said they are not looking at the Windies as one-horse team.
"Even before we played the West Indies in the group stages I was quite firm that Chris Gayle is not just the West Indies team. It is important when you are playing good sides you don't focus on one or two players. It's everybody, because anybody can hurt you, and I think India witnessed that, and everyone watching the game witnessed that.with Lendl Simmons' innings," he said.
West Indies hold the edge over England and beat them last time out in the group stages. But Morgan felt that would have no bearing on the morrow.'
"I think it's two completely different teams. Given that we've grown as a side, game on game, it's difficult to compare sides from the first game of the tournament to the final of the World Cup," opined Morgan.
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