Alastair Cook has vowed that England will bounce back from their Bangladesh blues.
The captain, who top-scored with 59 as the tourists succumbed to the 108-run defeat in Dhaka that secured a share of the series spoils for the host nation, believes his side have sufficient quality to come good in India starting next Wednesday.
“This is when we need to really stay strong as a group,” he said.
“We have to watch some of the guys and make sure we stay together.
“There’s a lot of talent in our team and an experience like this will only help us if we take the right things out of it.
“We have got to learn fast. We knew it would be a tough seven games.
“To get over the line in Chittagong was good and here we had our chances. Three or four times we have been too many wickets [down] too early.
“There is a lot to work on, a lot of game plan issues to get right and a lot of chatting, but you can chat all you want, it’s about performing out there, in the cauldron, with all the men around the bat when you first go in.”
An opening stand of 100 between Cook and Northamptonshire left-hander Ben Duckett looked to have put England in command chasing 273 for victory.
A stinging collapse of ten wickets for 61 runs, however, put paid to their ambitions.
It meant that England – after Zimbabwe and the West Indies – became the third nation to lose a Test to Bangladesh, who were incepted into the longest format of the game at the turn of the century.
“270 would have been a hell of a chase on that wicket but we got off to a really good start," he said.
“We spoke at tea about starting again, if we can take that partnership deep and then if we do lose a wicket try to consolidate and not be complacent.
“You lose a couple of wickets, then men come round the bat and the crowd get into it.
“We should not have been chasing 270. We had four or five chances we needed to take. 220 would have been a different story."
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