NEW DELHI: England, who’re languishing on the backside of the factors desk, are up in opposition to ninth-placed Netherlands in an important World Cup encounter on Wednesday as they’re searching for a recent begin within the match.
England, who face the Netherlands and Pakistan of their remaining matches, at the moment are preventing for a top-eight end to qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan.
Netherlands, who’re two factors behind England, will even look to script historical past, to make the reduce for Champions Trophy, by upstaging their opponent.
England’s fielding coach Carl Hopkinson clearly said on Tuesday that before everything they should win and win effectively of their upcoming video games to make it to the Champions Trophy.
“I believe before everything we’ve got to consider what’s coming tomorrow. I believe something that comes after that’s what comes after that.
“We have to be eager about tomorrow, we have to be eager about Pakistan as a result of we have two crucial video games by which we have to win and win effectively to qualify for the Champions Trophy, which is what we have to do,” Hopkinson mentioned forward of the Netherlands conflict in Pune.
Hopkinson additionally mentioned that England haven’t been capable of execute their plans underneath strain on the 50-over World Cup in India.
The 2019 champions, at present in a hunch, have been ousted from the match after shedding six out of their seven group matches thus far. That is regardless of their entry into the match as one of many high favorites.
Regardless of having famend batsmen corresponding to captain Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, and Joe Root, their star-studded batting lineup has solely achieved a solitary whole surpassing 200 of their final 4 matches.
“I believe cricket is usually a sport of – It is about executing underneath strain, is not it? Everyone is aware of that, and I believe this crew has been well-known for doing that basically, rather well,” Hopkinson mentioned.
“It is an extremely skilful crew, a really gifted crew, however at key moments in sure conditions, we’ve not executed underneath strain like we usually do.
“I believe that is one thing that we are able to at all times look to enhance on in observe and all the pieces you go about doing.
“It is to not say that lads aren’t attempting to do this in observe, they clearly are, however we’ve not acquired that proper in key moments and I believe that is one thing that we are able to positively enhance on,” he added.
(With Reuters inputs)
England, who face the Netherlands and Pakistan of their remaining matches, at the moment are preventing for a top-eight end to qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan.
Netherlands, who’re two factors behind England, will even look to script historical past, to make the reduce for Champions Trophy, by upstaging their opponent.
England’s fielding coach Carl Hopkinson clearly said on Tuesday that before everything they should win and win effectively of their upcoming video games to make it to the Champions Trophy.
“I believe before everything we’ve got to consider what’s coming tomorrow. I believe something that comes after that’s what comes after that.
“We have to be eager about tomorrow, we have to be eager about Pakistan as a result of we have two crucial video games by which we have to win and win effectively to qualify for the Champions Trophy, which is what we have to do,” Hopkinson mentioned forward of the Netherlands conflict in Pune.
Hopkinson additionally mentioned that England haven’t been capable of execute their plans underneath strain on the 50-over World Cup in India.
The 2019 champions, at present in a hunch, have been ousted from the match after shedding six out of their seven group matches thus far. That is regardless of their entry into the match as one of many high favorites.
Regardless of having famend batsmen corresponding to captain Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, and Joe Root, their star-studded batting lineup has solely achieved a solitary whole surpassing 200 of their final 4 matches.
“I believe cricket is usually a sport of – It is about executing underneath strain, is not it? Everyone is aware of that, and I believe this crew has been well-known for doing that basically, rather well,” Hopkinson mentioned.
“It is an extremely skilful crew, a really gifted crew, however at key moments in sure conditions, we’ve not executed underneath strain like we usually do.
“I believe that is one thing that we are able to at all times look to enhance on in observe and all the pieces you go about doing.
“It is to not say that lads aren’t attempting to do this in observe, they clearly are, however we’ve not acquired that proper in key moments and I believe that is one thing that we are able to positively enhance on,” he added.
(With Reuters inputs)
