England's T20 series whitewash by Bangladesh an 'eye-opener', says Matthew Mott

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Adil Rashid and Dawid Malan ticker arsenic Najmul Hossain Shanto hits a boundary

England's 3-0 decision by Bangladesh successful the Twenty20 bid has been an "eye-opener", according to white-ball manager Matthew Mott.

Bangladesh are ranked ninth successful the satellite portion England are T20 satellite champions.

England won the preceding one-day planetary bid 2-1, but struggled to accommodate to conditions successful the shorter format.

"It hurts, losing 3-0," said Mott, who was named white-ball manager successful May 2022.

"We were truly arrogant of our one-day triumph due to the fact that that was a monolithic effort. But to decorativeness the mode we did contiguous volition permission a spot of a sour sensation successful the mouth."

In Bangladesh's 16-run triumph successful Mirpur, the hosts successfully defended 159 connected a slow, wearing pitch.

England reached 142-6 successful reply but were near to rue a sloppy fielding show successful which they dropped 2 catches, portion a bid of misfields outgo boundaries.

"Our archetypal 15 overs successful the tract was obscurity adjacent the level we expect," said Mott, whose broadside adjacent play astatine the extremity of August against New Zealand astatine home.

"We've been up against a precise beardown location team, but we were up for it contiguous - everyone was up and about. But for immoderate crushed we conscionable couldn't stitchery the shot either successful the aerial oregon on the ground."

England's broadside was depleted, peculiarly successful the batting line-up, with cardinal players missing for assorted reasons including Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone and Alex Hales.

After decision successful the 2nd T20, skipper Jos Buttler said it was important for different players to get "exposure" successful the white-ball broadside earlier the 50-over World Cup successful October, which Mott emphasised.

"There's been a realisation that we volition beryllium amended disconnected from putting these batters retired determination successful unit situations," Mott said.

"You lone larn from your mistakes and by getting those opportunities, and I americium assured that we made the close decisions."

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