What a difference having Morgan on the pitch as skipper, he is a match winner.
Yep ... tend to agree this is actually the difference between both these teams currently - captaincy.
Australia have 'snatched defeat from the jaws of victory' in a chase 2x now (1st T20 as well) where they were cruising, should have won more times than not ... yet spectacularly came up short.
England seems to have a few batsmen stuck in 2 minds between the increasing divergence between T20, ODI and red ball techniques and tactics .... and Australia ... well they only have 4 batsmen (if all play) in Warner, Finch, Smith and Laboosh. Nobody else in that Aussie team would bat higher than a 6 in any other major nation (and that would probably be mercurial Maxwell).
I think the Aussie bowlers have been marginally better which has evened the batting depth discrepancy up a bit.
But Morgan's marshaling of his bowlers and field setting in those chases really caused Aus to choke in 2x chases now. All IMHO of course
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