Raise standards

Pietersen urges team to raise standards

England captain Kevin Pietersen urged his team to raise their standards ahead of the one-day series against India this week after they lost a warm-up match by 124 runs on Tuesday.

England lost to a second-string Mumbai side after their batsmen collapsed for 98.

"We have learnt a few lessons now today," Pietersen told reporters.

"We are back to competitive cricket. We played our last competitive game before the Stanford week, round about the third or fourth of September.

"That was a long time ago. We had a good seven weeks off into that week. And now we are back into the real, real tough stuff to come here to India.

"We are learning to make sure that we get ourselves right and take our lessons to get our heads back on and get them really, really tuned into what's going to be a tough tour starting this evening."

The tourists went into their second warm-up match with only two fit fast bowlers. Stuart Broad withdrew with a sore knee and Ryan Sidebottom has still to recover from an Achilles injury.

Their batsmen struggled to get their eye in against medium-pacer Kshemal Waingankar, who took five wickets for 37.

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