India nightmare was just a blip for us, says Kieswetter

England are writing off their record defeat against India as a blip which will have no bearing on their prospects at the business end of the ICC World Twenty20.

The defending cham- pions let themselves and their supporters down with a worryingly inept performance against spin in Sunday’s 90-run defeat at the Premadasa Stadium.

There were echoes of previous haplessness against sub-Continental variations, on Asian pitches, as wicketkeeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter’s top score of 35 was almost three times as many as anyone else could muster in England’s lowest ever Twenty20 total of 80 all out.

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