Eoin Morgan hoping England are fast learners after being undone by India on IPL pitch

NICK HOWSON: The series is level at 1-1 after the hosts claimed an emphatic seven-wicket win in the second T20 in Ahmedabad

India v England: 2nd T20 scorecard

Classy Kishan and average tourists... INDIA V ENGLAND TALKING POINTS

If England do collect the T20 World Cup in seven months time, it'll be because they learned from experiences like this in Ahmedabad.

This was as emphatic as it gets in India. The home side were smarting from the eight-wicket defeat on Friday (March 12) and on a pitch which suited them, they near-enough matched the tourists to draw level at 1-1 with three to play.

Eoin Morgan is keen that England use these matches to develop their game and a strategy to conquer conditions that they are likely to encounter later in the year. The Indian Premier League should add to that, also.

There might be more evenings like this one at the Narendra Modi Stadium, where the away side's superstar line-up looked spooked from the outset.

Batters failed to time the ball, flapping at deliveries and they cleared the rope just three times. The bowlers, meanwhile, failed to recapture the form of the opener, missing their lengths and loading the bullets for debutant Ishan Kishan and Virat Kohli.

^{It was the Ishan Kishan show in the India chase}

"To become better in these conditions we need to keep playing in them and making mistakes," said the Irishman. 

"You tend to learn quickly if you're winning and you're confident and everything runs reasonably smoothly, you tend to learn quite quickly. 

"Equally, if we have to learn the hard way we've still gone through that process of trying to learn game by game.

"When it comes to the World Cup in seven months time we can be best prepared or know more about ourselves and know where we need to get better before then.

He added: "India played really well. On top of that, they came out all guns blazing where we didn't manage to do that and our bowlers were under a bit more pressure. 

"When we tried to go back to basics and take pace off the ball we didn't execute well enough."

There are still three matches, an entire IPL and inevitably some warm-up games to get into shape. The question remains when do these performances stop being learning experiences and start becoming examples that such surroundings cannot be mastered in time.

^{Jason Roy struck 46 - but was far from free-flowing}

From Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow's lack of timing to Tom Curran, Chris Jordan and Ben Stokes' ill-discipline, Morgan does at least have a strategy to improve both suits. Catching wasn't the best on this occasion either, but that feels like an outliner.

"When it comes to batting the biggest sixes the guys hit are normally when they're putting no effort into it," the captain explained.

"So maintaining your shape when you're hitting the ball, attack a bowler who you know you have an advantage with or you play that type of bowler well. 

"Trying to improve on positions we get into and when we do get into a position take advantage of it."

And on the bowling effort that followed, Morgan said: "We could have been a bit more accurate with the lines and lengths that we bowled. This took us out of our comfort zone. 

"It was a typical Indian wicket that we would play on in an IPL game so your accuracy has to be on and you're bowling to guys really on their home patch when you're talking about a wicket like this."

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