MORGAN: I WANT THIS... NOT THIS

England skipper took months to get over 2016 final agony so he is hoping to match England’s 2019 Lord’s heroics in Oman T20 shootout

EOIN MORGAN admits he spent months coming to terms with England’s stunning defeat to West Indies in the last T20 World Cup final.

And the England captain wants to use the pain of that crushing loss to drive him to go one better this time and conquer the world again in the white ball game.

Morgan and his team-mates were left shattered and broken back in 2016 when, needing 19 off the final over, Carlos Brathwaite (right) smashed an astonishing four successive sixes off Ben Stokes to see the Windies snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

It took Morgan a while to get over what happened at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. But leading England to World Cup glory in the 50-over format at Lord’s in 2019 helped make amends.

Now Morgan is on a mission to become a world champion once more – and bury his T20 demons once and for all.

Ironically, England begin their Super 12 campaign against the Windies in Dubai on Saturday and Morgan said: “I probably thought about what happened for about six or seven months afterwards, to try and understand it.

“It was one of the most incredible sporting events in isolation that you’ll ever watch.

“It’s not something that you can just let run off your back, it’s something that you try and need to understand and learn from.

“For a guy to come in and hit four consecutive sixes to win the game for his team is an incredible feat within itself, that’s the way I’ve understood it. It’s never been done before.

“I know how hard it is to hit consecutive sixes even towards the end of an innings, but to hit four to get your team over the line in a World Cup final is incredible.

“There are always cornerstones of motivation to try and drive success, and they normally stem from failure. I think some of the most recent guys who have viewed that real heartbreak at the time for the first time on the international stage, that might be theirs.” Morgan, who has revealed England will join Windies in taking a knee before their showdown, admits he is relishing the chance to lead his side to what would be a historic second World Cup triumph.

He added: “I think it would be unbelievably special if we manage to do it.

“The group of players we’ve had together for the last five or six years, alongside some new, really talented and young guys coming through who’ve really made a name for themselves, makes the composition of the squad extremely strong.

“Obviously playing away from home creates challenges within that – and for the first time since 2016 we’re going into a world tournament where we haven’t been favourites.

“So again, there are some challenges that come with that.

“But they are challenges we’ve overcome in bilateral series on previous occasions, and challenges that we’re really looking forward to.”