31 October,2016 10:16 AM IST | | PA Sport
Captain Alastair Cook admitted England had 'a lot to work on' after suffering a first-ever Test defeat to Bangladesh. The collapse exposed England's deficiencies against spin as they crashed from 100 for none at tea to be all out for 164
Alastair Cook
Alastair Cook
Dhaka: Captain Alastair Cook admitted England had 'a lot to work on' after suffering a first-ever Test defeat to Bangladesh. The collapse exposed England's deficiencies against spin as they crashed from 100 for none at tea to be all out for 164.
"Probably today we showed our inexperience in these conditions," Cook said in an interview on Sky Sports 2.
"A lot of these guys have not played many Test matches and when that ball got rolling we found it very hard to stop. I was out there for a lot of it as well and I couldn't stop that ball. Credit to Bangladesh, they bowled well and caught well."
England's defeat draws into sharper focus with the five-Test series against India due to start in a fortnight, leaving them precious little time to work on the mistakes made during a series that finished drawn at 1-1.
"There's a lot to work on and a lot of game-plan issues to get right," Cook said. "There's a lot of chatting, but you can chat all you want - it's about getting out there in the cauldron of all the men around the bat when you first go in."
The target would have been lower but for costly missed opportunities, as England put down a host of chances in the morning session. "If I am honest I don't think we should have been chasing 270," Cook added.
"We had four or five, I wouldn't say they were gimme chances, but they were certainly chances that we need to take - 220 would have been a different story."
