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England to learn from Scots' shock

England captain Eoin Morgan confident his team can bounce back after an historic defeat to Scotland in Edinburgh

Eoin Morgan is confident England can learn the lessons of their shock six-run loss to Scotland in Edinburgh on Sunday in time for a one-day international series against Australia.

The 2019 World Cup hosts have just a few days to recover from a stunning one-day international defeat before they face title-holders Australia in the first of a five-match series at The Oval on Wednesday.

Scotland, buoyed by Calum MacLeod's magnificent 140 not out, posted their highest-ever ODI total of 5-371.

It looked as if England, who went into the match as the number one-ranked side in ODI cricket, might chase that down while opener Jonny Bairstow was making 105 and later on during an eighth-wicket stand of 71 between Moeen Ali (46) and Liam Plunkett (47 not out).


But Scotland's bowlers kept taking wickets and when paceman Safyaan Sharif had No.11 Mark Wood plumb lbw with seven balls to spare, England were all out for 365.

Defeat raised fresh questions about England's ability to win one-off, winner-takes-all fixtures following last year's Champions Trophy semi-final loss to Pakistan.

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But having seen England beat Australia 4-1 in an ODI series Down Under earlier this year, captain Morgan was confident this loss would not do lasting damage to England's morale.

"A one-off game like this, to bring your best game is very difficult to do, they played well and deserved the result," Morgan said. 

"It's not the end of the world for us, it was a really good run out and good to have a practice coming into the series against Australia.

"The level of expectation has been high around the team for a while, it doesn't get higher than being number one in the world. 

"I don't think we were far away, we go to a ground now that we know really well in The Oval, and we'll be up for the challenge."

Morgan, however, accepted they had been well below the standard needed to win in what was their first 50-over match of the British season.

"We were miles off where we expect to be and didn't do enough to win," he said.

"The way we played, we didn't deserve to win it. We might have scraped past them and won, but there were still quite a few mistakes made that we need to rectify and learn from ahead of the Australia series.

"We didn't do enough to win, if we had won it would have been a bonus from where we were," added the former Ireland batsman.

Scotland's momentous victory came in their very first match since they were denied a place at next year's World Cup barely three months ago.

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A combination of a controversial umpiring decision -- with no review system in place -- and rain saw them just miss out in the qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe. 

The International Cricket Council had already angered Scotland and many of their fellow non-Test nations by cutting the number of teams at next year's World Cup from 14 to 10.

Former Durham and Warwickshire batsman MacLeod said Scotland's first international cricket win over England was a "massive statement".

He added: "It does not take away what happened in Zimbabwe and everyone's feelings about the 10-team World Cup but this was a special day.

"We want more games. That is the bigger shop window rather than personal side of it.

"If the ICC and other international teams look at this game they will see we are not an add on. This should be a catalyst for more games."

Qantas tours of England and Zimbabwe

ODI squad: Tim Paine (c), Aaron Finch (vc), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye

England ODI squad: Eoin Morgan (c), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Tom Curran, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes (injured), David Willey, Chris Woakes (injured), Mark Wood

T20 squad: Aaron Finch (c), Alex Carey (vc), Ashton Agar, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, Jack Wildermuth

Qantas Tour of England

June 7: Australia beat Sussex by 57 runs at Hove

June 9: Australia beat Middlesex by 101 runs at Lord's

June 13: First ODI, The Oval (D/N)

June 16: Second ODI, Cardiff

June 19: Third ODI, Trent Bridge (D/N)

June 21: Fourth ODI, Durham (D/N)

June 24: Fifth ODI, Old Trafford

June 27: Only T20, Edgbaston (D/N)

Qantas T20I tri-series Tour of Zimbabwe

July 1: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

July 2: Pakistan vs Australia

July 3: Australia vs Zimbabwe

July 4: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

July 5: Pakistan vs Australia

July 6: Australia vs Zimbabwe

July 8: Final