England named their 15-member squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 on Sunday, September 17 on the anticipated traces. From the squad that performed in opposition to New Zealand within the latest 3-1 ODI collection win, Jason Roy, the veteran opening batter was the one omission as Harry Brook made a wild card entry into the facet.
Roy, who was one of many major stars of England’s white-ball revolution that started in 2015, missed the New Zealand collection owing to an harm. It appeared initially that the harm was extra of precautionary relatively than critical however a choice has been taken to depart out Roy, which implies a lottery for Brook, who had made a statement-making 42-ball century within the Hundred after being ignored of the provisional squad.
Roy’s again spasm implies that the 2019 World Cup winner will not be a part of the squad.
The 25-year-old Surrey pacer Gus Atkinson has been retained within the squad that performed the New Zealand collection. Atkinson, who has impressed every person along with his tempo and accuracy within the Blast after which the Hundred, performed three matches within the New Zealand collection and will probably be a part of a robust tempo assault together with Chris Woakes, Mark Wooden, Sam Curran, Reece Topley and David Willey.
England start their World Cup marketing campaign within the event opener on October 5 at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium in a repeat of the 2019 remaining. Earlier than the World Cup, England do play a three-match ODI collection in opposition to Eire however they are going to be sending their second-string facet for that task led by Zak Crawley. Brook is the one participant within the squad for the Eire collection.
England World Cup 2023 squad: Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wooden, Chris Woakes
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