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Stuart Broad, the English skipper has said that the heavy loss against India highlighted some severe flaws in the English batsmen's technique against spin. "We made it easy for India in the end. We will have to learn from our mistakes and there were some pretty clear ones in the batting line-up. Young guys seem to learn pretty quickly," Broad said after England were outplayed by 90 runs on Sunday night. Chasing a competitive 171, England floundered against Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla to be bowled out for 80, their lowest ever T20I score. Harbhajan took career best figures of 4/12, the best figures ever by an Indian bowler in T20I cricket while Chawla chipped in with 2/13. It doesn't change our destiny a huge amount -- we still hop on a bus to Kandy in the morning. It is not like tomorrow is going to be a different day. It is not as if we have to go home or anything," Broad said. Reflecting on the performance, Broad said that the loss of early wickets did not help his team's cause one bit. "Our error today is we lost early wickets. Spinners always enjoy bowling to new batsmen. We talked the other day about how we need to hit straight and hard and today to lose the first couple of wickets across the line was a bit disappointing. Hitting straight was a much better option than going across the ball." Broad also did not agree that the wicket turned too much."I don't think the wicket turned massively to be honest," Broad said. The guys getting out said it was just skidding on a little bit. There was a little bit of turn, Harbhajan (Singh) bowled very nicely with his top-spinner going well but no, I don't think it was a raging turner or anything." Broad said his players' performance was not upto the mark."I think we were a little bit sloppy in places; we had a few soft twos in the outfield," Broad conceded. "We didn't hit our lengths. But I think it was the lowest first-innings score on this ground so far in the tournament." "We thought it was very chaseable. The wicket was pretty flat, although it didn't have the pace in it that it had the other night."