• Head coach still thinks his team can achieve well at World Twenty20
• But five straight losses to South Africa shows lot of hard work to doTrevor Bayliss admits England hold had a reality check about their current capabilities,but still hold the potential to fare well at the ICC World Twenty20 next month. Eoin Morgan’s team finished their tour of South Africa with a chastening sequence, dispiriting some might even say, or of five straight white-ball defeats.
The worst was saved until final,too, as England were trounced by nine wickets at the Wanderers to lose the Twenty20 series 2-0 after their final seven wickets fell for 14 runs on the way to 171 all out and they were then powerless to stop AB de Villiers (71) and Hashim Amla (69no) making a mockery of that target in an opening stand of 125 which took just 50 balls.
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Source: theguardian.com