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"(But) Hat's off to India, they really played well and put in performances worthy of winning the series," Morgan said.

Morgan said it was disappointing they could not rotate the strike quite often to tackle the pressure of an ever "The one thing you do want to do is rotate the strike. It actually gets your eye in, you get to watch the ball from both ends. It's disappointing that we didn't do that. It might have taken a bit of smarter cricket to wrestle back momentum," the English skipper said.

Talking about the limited overs rubber against India, Morgan said losing the ODI series was more painful than the T20 series.

"In the ODIs, it was only about 15-20 runs between winning and losing the series. Probably that hurts us more than losing this (T200 series," he said.

"Looking at the performances in the ODIs, we were potentially worth of winning the series. In the T20 series, probably the last game hurt us more. The game got away from us, we should have won. Today we underperformed and we weren't good enough," Morgan added.

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