India v England: fantastic fielding powers tourists to victory The headlines belonged to Eoin Morgan for seeing England home by drilling a length ball over the sightscreen, and Morgan did well to be inspired by the captaincy (in the absence of Stuart Broad) rather than inhibited. But what kept England in the game, so that Morgan could finish it off, was the quality of their ground fielding: without it England would have been chasing almost 10 an over. And it so happened that the coach in charge of England on Sday was Richard Halsall, normally their fielding coach. The system worked - and the 15 or so runs which England's fielders saved included athletic stops by such physical specimens as Tim Bresnan and Stuart Meaker. And as if winning a T20 international in the heart of the Indian Premier League was not a feat enough, England did so without Kevin Pietersen and Graeme Swann who were being rested - two of their three best 20-over exponents, along with Morgan. If Swann had played, as leading spinner, England would have been spared the over by Luke Wright that went for 20, if not the one by Meaker that cost the same. Before this game, Pietersen's absence from England's 20-over side had been keenly felt. Nobody had been found to replace him during the World T20 finals in Sri Lanka, when England beat only Afghanistan and New Zealand. In that competition England never had enough vim at the top of their order in his absence, and Morgan was left with too much to do. And you might add that few international bowlers bowl quite so naively at the death as India's two medium-pacers did, placing the ball in the slot for Morgan and going for 86 from their eight overs. For an experienced 20-over leader - captain of the Chennai Super Kings as well as India - MS Dhoni's tactics were unfathomable. He had several part-time spinners up his sleeve, and he was playing against England, yet he preferred medium-pacers who skidded on to the bat at the start and end of their innings. On Sunday England announce their squad for the 20-over and 50-over internationals in New Zealand in February, a selection complicated by the need to keep on resting and rotating players. But the ultimate objective for England's 20-over cricket should be the next World T20 finals, to be held in Bangladesh in early 2014. As in Sri Lanka this autumn, a lot of spin will be bowled in that tournament. And therefore the England opening batsman who has to drop out to make space for Pietersen is Michael Lumb, who mauled the two medium-pacers in his maiden 50 but seized up when Dhoni finally got round to spin at both ends. Alex Hales and Pietersen would send out a message of intent as the tallest, most physically imposing opening pair England have had in any form of cricket.