A quick glance at the scorecards will suggest that England have been dominant throughout the series, winning all games rather convincingly after the series-opener was washed out, but Morgan isn’t entirely satisfied.

In the fourth ODI, in Kandy, Sri Lanka were kept down to 273-7 in response to which England got to 132-2 when the rain stopped play. By that point, England were ahead by 18 runs of DLS par score. Morgan himself scored a fluent unbeaten 31 to be named Player of the Match, while Joe Root made an unbeaten 32.

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Morgan felt that his side had the best use of conditions and should have done a better job containing Sri Lanka’s lower order after having reduced them to 102-4. A half-century from Dasun Shanaka, along with sizeable contributions from Thisara Perera and Akila Dananjaya, propped the home team up to a respectable score.

“When I went in we were 102-4, and I played my normal game without any pressure although we had lost wickets. If I had continued batting longer we could have got a result in our favour. If I had stayed with Thisara for the 50 overs, we could have got around 290-300.”

The second big error that cost Sri Lanka was that they had too many men outside the inner ring on one occasion, resulting in a no-ball being called when Root was caught at short fine-leg for 22.

“If we had not made a mistake of having five fielders outside the circle and got Root’s wicket it would have been a close game,” accepted Shanaka. “We could have built on the pressure from there and forced another mistake.”