England ‘quite raw’ after T20 whitewash in Bangladesh, Matthew Mott admits

There were no thrown teacups in the England dressing room on Tuesday night after Bangladesh sealed a 3-0 T20 series whitewash in Mirpur. Nobody got the hairdryer treatment. There may be a time and a place for such histrionics, but the end of a short tour at the end of a long winter is not it – no matter how shambolic some aspects of the final performance had been.

“To be honest it’s more about the follow-up,” said Matthew Mott, England’s white-ball coach. “It’ll be quite raw at the moment. I don’t think we did ourselves justice in that last game and pointing it out is not going to make anyone better straight away. We’ll make sure we have those conversations when the players have had time to digest it. We’ve got a bit break now, so it’s trying to get them freshened up and ready for their next adventures.”

In the last 12 months England have burnished their reputation as the world’s dominant white-ball side by adding the T20 World Cup to the 50-over version they won in 2019, but tarnished it by losing six series – suffering along the way their first T20 whitewash since 2016 and their first ODI whitewash since 2011 – while winning four. Being a soft touch in bilateral series of little genuine import while regularly winning World Cups would not be the worst position to find yourself in, but it is certainly not Mott’s ambition.

“I don’t think we ever want to accept losing,” the Australian said. “We came here to win the series. We won the ODI series, which was an exceptional effort. It seems a long time ago, but we played some really good cricket in those first couple of games, and it’s the format we are focusing on this year. The T20s we’re disappointed with. I think we had a good enough team to win but let’s not get away from