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Xtra Time Web Desk: England captain Eoin Morgan on Sunday admitted the weakness of his side was exposed to India during the 2nd T20I at Narendra Modi Stadium. England was comprehensively beaten by 7 wickets by India to see the five match T20 series level on 1-1.

Asked to bat first, the England batsmen barring the exception of Jason Roy failed to get going against a disciplined Indian bowling on a slow, low wicket at Ahmedabad. India successfully chased the target of 164/6 set by England with India captain Virat Kohli leading charge (73 off 49) and debutant Ishan Kishan blazing his way to 32 ball 56.

The T20 World Cup will be held in India in October and November and Morgan says any experience of tricky surfaces now will stand England in good stead going into that event.

"The pitch was slow and low and one thing that does is expose our weakness on these surfaces a little bit," said Morgan, whose side won the series opener by eight wickets on Friday.

"We don't play a lot on slow, low wickets, and the more we can do that, the better. You only become better in these conditions by playing in them and making mistakes.

"You tend to learn quicker if you are winning, confident and everything rolls smoothly but equally if we have to learn the hard way we are still going through that process. "We're trying to learn game on game so that when it comes to the World Cup we can be best prepared and know more about ourselves.

"The pitch in the first game really suited us - it had more pace in it and was probably similar to a Cardiff wicket - but this took us out of our comfort zone. It was a typical Indian wicket that we would play on in an IPL game,” signed off Morgan.