Waqar dubs Morgan’s pitch criticism as ‘lame excuse’

TIL Desk Sports/Eoin Morgan’s comment on Cardiff pitch, post England’s defeat in the Champions Trophy semi-finals, seems to have not gone down well with Pakistan legendary bowler Waqar Younis as he slammed the England skipper for making a “lame excuse”.

In the post match presentation, Morgan insisted that the pitch used for his side’s eight-wicket defeat at Sophia Gardens cancelled out the home advantage as the same pitch was used for Pakistan-Sri Lanka clash last Monday. Slamming Morgan, Younis took to his Twitter account to criticise him.

“Stop giving that lame excuse Eoin Morgan regarding the used pitch. You guys have been thrashed fair and square by Pakistan,” he said. However, Morgan did give credit to the Pakistan bowlers for restricting England to 211 in 49.5 overs.

“I don’t think there was any home advantage. We knew that we were going to play on a used wicket at some stage in this tournament, and we found out the other day that today was going to be on a used wicket,” Morgan had said.