Moeen Ali maintains West Indies defeat reveals England should enhance on sluggish pitches

Moeen Ali admitted England should enhance on the kind of sluggish pitches which have confronted them of their Twenty20 tour of the Caribbean after the West Indies claimed a 3-2 collection win.

Whereas Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone every took two for 17, with the pair and fellow spinner Moeen taking a mixed 4 for 54 in Sunday’s decider, England’s quick bowlers have been peppered all around the Kensington Oval.

Reece Topley and Chris Jordan conceded 66 within the last 4 overs as Rovman Powell’s 35 not out from 17 balls and Kieron Pollard’s unbeaten 41 off 25 deliveries in an unbroken 74-run stand propelled the Windies to 179 for 4.

An England aspect lacking a number of regulars together with Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes attributable to their Ashes exertions succumbed to 162 all out as Jason Holder completed proceedings with 4 wickets in 4 balls.

However Moeen believes these 5 matches have been a helpful train for an England aspect with a number of inexperienced members, saying on the presentation ceremony: “I feel total it’s been a terrific studying.

“These circumstances we’ve struggled on. We’re good on flat wickets however these are the circumstances we need to get higher on going ahead.

“Batting and bowling, they have been smarter than us. I assumed the West Indies have been the higher workforce, notably (on Sunday) and total. We didn’t adapt nicely to those circumstances however we performed some good cricket.

“It was a terrific collection and a terrific spectacle for everyone. We completely loved it, however we didn’t win so it’s a bit disappointing.”

England’s loss of life bowling has come beneath the microscope just lately as they’ve routinely struggled to pin down the Windies batters on the again finish of an innings in Barbados.

Moeen, although, believes neither Jordan nor Topley bowled poorly on Sunday and identified they’ve choices not on this squad, akin to Jofra Archer, who’s on the mend following a second elbow operation final month.

Moeen added: “It’s one thing we’re engaged on however I truly thought we didn’t bowl too badly right here, they performed some wonderful pictures in direction of the top, Powell particularly was incredible.

“Nevertheless it was simply a type of issues the place we’re making an attempt to work on it and discover options. We are going to get higher as time goes on and when guys like Jof come again.”

Moeen stood in as England captain for the final three matches following a low grade quad harm to World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan

Requested whether or not he could be completely satisfied to take the reins once more if Morgan struggled to get again to health, Moeen replied: “I don’t actually take into consideration these issues.

“I do take pleasure in it, it’s nice enjoyable and good to be concerned however clearly there’s Jos (England’s standard limited-overs vice-captain) who’s a incredible captain, he’s received a superb cricket mind and he’s the man who usually takes over from Eoin when he’s not taking part in.”