‘England haven’t got sufficient 50-over expertise to be known as Champions Trophy contenders’ | Cricket Information – The Occasions of India

England will enter the Champions Trophy after being whitewashed 3-0 by India within the one-day worldwide collection, which would require Jos Buttler’s males to show the tide round to go all the best way within the eight-team Worldwide Cricket Council event. However former England batter Mark Butcher feels that the squad lacks expertise.
“The very first thing that sprung to my thoughts in the course of the first two ODIs (towards India) was simply how naive most of our cricket is within the 50-over format. I believed ‘why may that be?’. It is as a result of we do not play any. There’s a world of distinction by way of the tempo that the sport must constantly be performed at,” mentioned Butcher on the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast.
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The English workforce’s current efficiency in ODIs has been lacklustre, securing solely 4 victories in 14 matches for the reason that 2023 ODI World Cup.
“I do not imply that the tempo is a inflexible graph that solely goes up, the tempo must fluctuate in 50-over cricket in a manner that it would not have to in 20-over cricket. Having that talent and nous and recreation consciousness to know when to place the foot down and when to ease off a bit of however, when to take a seat in and when to go arduous, is one thing that solely comes with taking part in a number of it,” he added.
“I keep in mind again within the 90s when England would play three Texaco Trophy matches in the course of the course of the summer time, the sum complete of England’s 50-over cricket could be three to 6 matches per summer time. They’d be taking part in towards Indian sides, or West Indian sides or Australian sides.
“The distinction in variety of caps between them and our gamers was 3 times extra on the opposite workforce. We’re type of again in that scenario now whereby the India gamers will out quantity the variety of caps of even somebody like Jos Buttler for instance, by no less than two to 1 or three to 1,” mentioned Butcher.
The Champions Trophy draw locations England towards Australia, Afghanistan and South Africa in Group B. England will open their marketing campaign towards Australia on February 22.
“That our workforce and the make-up of it and the expertise of it’ll have the talent and the nous and the know-how to win what’s a really tough type of cricket, 50-over cricket. It requires extra than simply placing your foot to the ground and conserving it there,” Butcher concluded.