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England Men's selection panel have named a provisional squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies and United States of America starting in June and the preceding four-match Vitality IT20 series against Pakistan, which gets underway next month in Leeds.

England Provisional ICC Men's T20 World Cup & Vitality IT20 Squad versus Pakistan Squad:

Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain

Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)

Jofra Archer (Sussex)

Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)

Harry Brook (Yorkshire)

Sam Curran (Surrey)

Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)

Tom Hartley (Lancashire)

Will Jacks (Surrey)

Chris Jordan (Surrey)

Liam Livingstone (Lancashire)

Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)

Phil Salt (Lancashire)

Reece Topley (Surrey)

Mark Wood (Durham)

Sussex quick bowler Jofra Archer has recovered from his right elbow injury and is named in the squad. Archer’s last appearance at this level came over a year ago in England’s tour of Bangladesh in March 2023.

Lancashire left-arm spinning all-rounder Tom Hartley is the sole uncapped player and, along with Surrey batter Will Jacks, are the only players not to feature at an ICC World tournament previously.

Selected players, currently playing in the Indian Premier League, will return in time for the series against Pakistan, which gets underway at Headingley on Wednesday 22 May 2024.

The World Cup squad will fly to the Caribbean on 31 May ahead of England’s opening group match against Scotland at the Kensington Oval, Barbados, on Wednesday 4 June.

ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 – England's Group Fixtures:

England v Scotland, Tuesday 4 June 2024, Kensington Oval, Barbados (10.30am local)

Australia v England. Saturday 8 June 2024, Kensington Oval, Barbados (1.00pm local)

England v Oman, Thursday 13 June 2024, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua and Barbuda (3.00pm local)

Namibia v England, Saturday 15 June 2024, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua and Barbuda (1.00pm local)

England Men's Vitality IT20 Series versus Pakistan:

1st IT20: England v Pakistan, Wednesday 22 May 2024, Headingley, Leeds (6.30pm local)

2nd IT20: England v Pakistan, Saturday 25 May 2024, Edgbaston, Birmingham (2.30pm local)

3rd IT20: England v Pakistan, Tuesday 28 May 2024, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (6.30pm local)

4th IT20: England v Pakistan, Thursday30 May 2024, The Kia Oval, London (6.30pm local)

ECB​
 
It looks like the type side that are equally likely to score 200+ as they are to concede it.

I'm quite surprised at Hartley being called up but they really don't have any other spinners.
 
Jofra makes his way into the provisional squad as well. Not sure if he is fit to play a game or just a name?
 
DeadlyVenom said:
It looks like the type side that are equally likely to score 200+ as they are to concede it.

I'm quite surprised at Hartley being called up but they really don't have any other spinners.
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Hain? They were playing Rehan Ahmed all this while. They have picked Hartley purely for his batting, I suspect.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Hain? They were playing Rehan Ahmed all this while. They have picked Hartley purely for his batting, I suspect.
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He has been out of form ( albeit in Test/FC) for a while. The Indian tour was quite disappointing for him too. I guess they didn't want to take the risk and also include two leggies. England never seem to know what to do with a leggie so two in one world cup squad might have pushed them over the edge.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
He has been out of form ( albeit in Test/FC) for a while. The Indian tour was quite disappointing for him too. I guess they didn't want to take the risk and also include two leggies. England never seem to know what to do with a leggie so two in one world cup squad might have pushed them over the edge.
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I think Hartley will do better job than rehan. He bowled nicely on Indian tour and can use the spin friendly condition better.
 
Rehan is a better white ball spinner and Shoaib Bashir is the better Test match spinner .

But I guess England wanted an SLA in the squad and he can slog a few.
 
Rana said:
Tabahi squad

And they are mostly in good form
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They are packed with aggressive batters. Imagine a guy like Cohler Cadmore potentially never making his white ball debut. Here in Pakistan he would've been our best T20I batter
 
ECB calling back all their players from the IPL for the Pakistan series just because their hosting it, if they were travelling to Pakistan they’d have sent their reserves…
 
RidiculousMan said:
They are packed with aggressive batters. Imagine a guy like Cohler Cadmore potentially never making his white ball debut. Here in Pakistan he would've been our best T20I batter
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Here in Pakistan Hafeez would tell him to first prove himself in our domestic cricket, score runs and then make your way into the national side.
 
Mental midget Moeen continues to survive. Incredible.

England will be a force if they bat second but a rubbish side if they bat first. Their bowling is not capable of defending totals.
 
Mamoon said:
Mental midget Moeen continues to survive. Incredible.

England will be a force if they bat second but a rubbish side if they bat first. Their bowling is not capable of defending totals.
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Moeen is a mental midget but Babar is a champion captain????
 
DeadlyVenom said:
It looks like the type side that are equally likely to score 200+ as they are to concede it.

I'm quite surprised at Hartley being called up but they really don't have any other spinners.
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They key to England’s success has been not going down the stats rabbit hole and looking at who they need for specific team requirements and whether it fits the overall strategy, and they’ve been flexible to with their selections I think
 
The defending champions have a good squad here, I dont see them going all the way this time around but do see them making semi finals
 
Awesome squad except moeen ali and Jordan. Cant believe Jordan is there. absolutely useless bowler. But potential wc winning squad
 
Baistrow
Phil Salt
Buttler
Duckett
Harry Brook
Livingstone
Moeen Ali
Sam Curran
Wood
Archer
Rashid
 
England have 5-6 players who can hit 40 ball tons

Butler
Salt
Bairstow
Jacks
Brook
Livingstone?

Unreal power
 
Bowling doesn't look great.

Wood got lashed in the 50 over WC and Archer is an unknown quantity after the injury lay off.
 
Rana said:
No Dawid Malan

England are going full throttle this time

No anchor
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It's good, Malan wasn't good for the team, although in 2023 he kinda was the only inform batter.

But now he's not needed. England isn't Pakistan lol
 
Probably the most aggressive batting lineup in the WC that will back themselves to both set and chase mammoth totals.
Bowling weakness may come to hurt them, just depends on how often the full-on aggression risk fails
 
Buttler, Jacks, Salt and Livingstone.

You have 4 200+ S/R batsmen in the Top 6.

Then they have Bairstow and Brook who can score at 160-180 S/R.

If this was India, they would select Root and Malan in the batting lineup.
 
MANU ROY said:
No kl Rahul to
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KL shot himself in the foot by opening and scoring at 130 S/R in this IPL. Though he is scoring runs, he is too slow and he is competing with Jaiswal and Rohit at the top.

KL should have assumed the finisher role. He has the shots to close the game.
 

England duo can push Test case at T20 World Cup - Key​

Jonny Bairstow and Phil Salt can “absolutely” push their credentials to be England’s Test wicketkeeper during the T20 World Cup, says managing director Rob Key.

England Test coach Brendon McCullum said he needs to “work out” who will take the gloves for the series against West Indies in July.

By then, Bairstow will have gone four months without a first-class game, while Salt has not played red-ball cricket since September.

“The decision on who keeps in the Test team won’t be on if someone has played Championship cricket or not,” Key told BBC Sport.

“We will think about who is the best person to do the job for the role that we require and that’s how we will make the decision.”

Ben Foakes was England’s keeper for the 4-1 series defeat in India, with Bairstow playing as a specialist batter after donning the gloves for last summer’s Ashes.

After the loss in India, McCullum said of the Test keeping position: "We'll work that out in time. Whatever we decide, we will put the investment and the support in, and try to give the most amount of time for that to be successful."

Any decisions England take over the Test side this summer will partly be with the 2025-26 Ashes series in Australia in mind.

Along with Foakes and Bairstow, Lancashire’s Salt might come into the reckoning. The 27-year-old has been in blistering form in T20 cricket and is currently the leading overseas run-scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Another candidate would be Durham’s Ollie Robinson. The 25-year-old, who has experience with England Lions, has passed 50 in all five of his County Championship innings this season.

“No-one will be ruled out,” said Key.

Neither Salt nor Bairstow are expected to keep at the T20 World Cup, with captain Jos Buttler set to take the gloves despite not keeping for part of England’s tour of West Indies in December and again in the IPL.

“He captains very well with the gloves,” said Key. “He’s the heartbeat of the team and the focal point for everyone.”

However, England may need a stand-in keeper and captain during the four-match series against Pakistan, beginning on 22 May, with Buttler due to attend the birth of his third child.

The reigning champions have recalled pace bowler Jofra Archer after a year out injured for the World Cup in the Caribbean and United States in June.

England begin their defence of the trophy they won in Australia in 2022 against Scotland in Barbados on 4 June.

They do so after an awful campaign at the 50-over World Cup in India last autumn, where they were also defending champions but won only three of their nine matches.

But Key denied there was additional pressure on captain Buttler and coach Matthew Mott to oversee a strong campaign at the T20 World Cup.

“When it comes to being a coach and captain, it’s about getting your players playing as well as they can,” said Key. “Let’s focus on that. Don’t worry about the end result.

“Every team wants to win. We have as good a chance as any.”

Source: BBC
 
Former England captains Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain discussed the squad announcement in the latest Cricket podcast, where they reflected on all the talking points and had a closer look at how they could line-up during the tournament.

Atherton: "It's a fairly predictable squad, there's a strong nucleus of experienced players with a bit of fresh blood in the likes of Jacks and Hartley. There's no real bolter, that nobody has thought about, that suddenly have been picked by the selectors. If we were going to pick 15 names, we would pretty much come up with that kind of 15."

Is Archer's selection a gamble?

Atherton: "He will definitely improve England's side if he's available, because he's a multi-phase bowler. He can bowl quick with the new ball, he can come on and bowl thunderbolts in the middle of an innings for an over or two if you need it, then clearly has his ability at the death to bowl yorkers."

Hussain: "You'd say that Jofra is the headline act, isn't he? He did an interview recently where he said not sure he could go through another (long injury). We wish Jofra well because he is absolutely box office."

How will England's batting line-up look?

Hussain: "Jos Buttler and Salt are probably going to open after what happened in the Caribbean. Will Jacks after what happened in the IPL probably comes in at No 3 and then Bairstow there at No 4. You would say all four of those would like to bat in the top three, if not open."

"Could we see Brook at four or even Duckett at four? In the absence of Ben Stokes, who said he wasn't going to be considered for this, could Duckett come into that side as a left-hander? Or is he just a spare batter?"

Atherton: "I thought they'd go Buttler, Salt, Jacks, Bairstow, Brook, Livingstone as the top six. You've then got a couple of left-handers in there in Moeen and Curran who could float if you need them to.

"The one issue there in that top six - if it is that - is that it is a right-hander heavy top six. It's nice to have the option of mixing left and right, so I'm sure that played to Duckett's advantage."

Is the balance of England's squad right?

Atherton: "Somebody like Max Holden can't be far away and I think he's somebody whose T20 game has come on leaps and bounds for Middlesex. Tom Kohler-Cadmore was probably in the conversation and Jordan Cox maybe, who's just moved to Essex.

"Duckett's been around the team for a year or two, made that transition to international cricket pretty well and if he's not in the first choice top six, then he's good spare batter to have. He's an excellent player of spin and an excellent sweeper."

Hussain: "I was asked to do my side and I had both Woakes and Jordan in because I wouldn't have taken the extra batter, because there's so many batting options in there. Jordan is brilliant in all phases, is great in the field and he scores very useful runs down the order."

Will Buttler keep the gloves or pass to Salt?

Atherton: "If I was Matthew [Mott], I'd just say to Jos 'What do you want to do?' If he's more comfortable and he feels that it's going to be of the teams' benefit to be an outfielder, then Salt can keep wicket.

"Jos knows in his heart of hearts what he wants and what he thinks will be best. He's the main man, he's the captain and he's such an important player at the top of the order. As we've seen as he's come into form in the IPL, it makes a massive difference when Buttler is doing well."

Is there pressure on England?

Hussain: "T20 is a lottery anyway, but to win this thing with some of the sides out there, is going to be the hardest. You look at the host nation in the West Indies, you look at South Africa and their batting line-up.

"India are coming into this off the back of the IPL and some of the players coming into form, then Australia are looking for the treble of the 50-over, 20-over and the Test Championship, so they're hoping for the full whack. There are a lot of good teams."

Atherton: "I'm not sure you can judge England on whether they win this tournament because T20 is more of a lottery and is very difficult to call the winners. What they have to be judged on in this tournament, Mott and Buttler, is just getting most of the big decisions right.

"I don't think you can be guaranteed to win it, even if you do, but you want to see evidence that the ship is run well. I think what was evident from India in the 50-over World Cup is that too many things went well that were in their control, so they've got to have a better tournament than that."
 
Champ_Pal said:
Buttler, Jacks, Salt and Livingstone.

You have 4 200+ S/R batsmen in the Top 6.

Then they have Bairstow and Brook who can score at 160-180 S/R.

If this was India, they would select Root and Malan in the batting lineup.
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They played all 4 and still lost T20 series in the Caribbean.

If the pitches aid spin/are slow, this right hander heavy lineup stands exposed.

Not the greatest bowling lineup either unless Archer is fit and at his best .
 
Remember when Buttler said 'England weren't defending anything?' before the start of the World Cup? I hope they don't make any kind of stupid statements this time.

I am very interested to see how they do. Considering that the batting is full of hitters and the West Indies pitches may not necessarily be 200+ pitches. There could be alot for the spinners on these pitches, which England have often struggled against.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Remember when Buttler said 'England weren't defending anything?' before the start of the World Cup? I hope they don't make any kind of stupid statements this time.

I am very interested to see how they do. Considering that the batting is full of hitters and the West Indies pitches may not necessarily be 200+ pitches. There could be alot for the spinners on these pitches, which England have often struggled against.
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They will still smash Pakistan with their eyes closed.
 

Chris Jordan: ‘We will be hunted but our T20 pedigree is pretty strong’​


After England showed their hand for the T20 World Cup in the week, Jofra Archer fired up his Instagram live, transporting anyone who clicked to the sunshine of Barbados. It was a hardworking net session firing down white Kookaburras alongside Chris Jordan, his friend being the second headline recall on the day.

Their stories have been intertwined over the years, Jordan first to cross the Atlantic to pursue his dream in English cricket as a teenager and then older brother and mentor when Archer, six years his junior, followed suit. Before Archer made that stirring Test debut at Lord’s five years ago he requested Jordan present the cap, CJ nailing the speech like a trademark yorker as his young sidekick swelled with pride.

All things being well, the pair are now about to play their first global tournament together, Jordan having missed the cut when Archer scorched England to the 50-over World Cup title in 2019 and Archer injured when Jordan walked off a T20 champion at the MCG in late 2022. Rather poetically the campaign starts (and hopefully ends, given it hosts the final) at Bridgetown’s evocative Kensington Oval.

“The Kensington Oval has a special place in my heart,” says Jordan, speaking from a spell of warm weather training before returning to Surrey next week. “Growing up at school we used to play finals there and it’s where I watched my first ever cricket match. It was West Indies versus England, I was maybe five and I remember the atmosphere vividly, the vibe that first morning, the conch shells blowing …”

Archer is yet to play international cricket in the Caribbean by dint of the injury curse that has blighted him in recent years; those repeat stress fractures that everyone hopes are in the past. “I’d say he’s in a real happy place,” says Jordan. “I feel he can see the light at the end of the tunnel. A World Cup, playing for England, and also playing in the Caribbean for the first time ... it’s one of his bucket list things to tick off. He’s working so hard and he’s pretty much up to speed from training with him this past week.

“I haven’t batted against him yet – we haven’t resumed our rivalry – but I’m not dodging him. What he gives me I can give him back, maybe not quite at the same pace – he’s a little bit quicker – but I’m quick enough. We do bowl a few bouncers at each other but it’s all in good fun; we just haven’t faced each other yet.”

Kensington Oval also witnessed Jordan’s first international in front of his family, a T20 in 2014 in which he “hit a few sixes” [four in eight balls], “took a few wickets” [three for 39] and held two catches – the kind of all-round performance that, 10 years on, England are hoping will come to the fore this June. In some ways calling up the country’s highest wicket-taking seamer in T20 internationals (96) should be no shock, equally the 35-year-old’s recall owes much to rich form as a lower order hitter: a short-form average of 30 and strike rate of 160 since the start of last summer.

“I wasn’t expecting the call but I never ruled it out either,” says Jordan, who was not picked for the Caribbean tour last December. “I had good communication with the hierarchy and they suggested they would look at franchise form. In terms of batting, the penny drops with different people at different times, I guess. Down the order can be hit or miss but I have started to manage my expectations on what a good knock looks like and play the situation. I keep my breathing under control and nice and rhythmic, and also I do my homework on opposition.”

Such level-headedness under pressure is what has made Jordan a trusted and an ever-willing death bowler in T20 over the years, while the talk of homework and visualisation brings us onto arguably his forte: fielding. Even if Jordan doesn’t make the XI – and the way Rob Key was talking, this sounds unlikely – England will be able to call on arguably the No 1 outfielder in the world any time a player leaves the field. The work that goes into this discipline – those reflex grabs, those Matrix-like dives, or the sheer Air Jordan madness on the boundary rope – is fascinating.

“Growing up I played a lot of different sports,” says Jordan. “Basketball, hockey, tennis, football, it all developed my hand-eye coordination. And one of the big things is situation awareness and a lot of anticipation. When I move into a position, within 10 seconds or so I have assessed at least eight to 10 ways the ball could come to me. It sounds a lot but over a period of time you build up the knowledge. I get a feel for my space, and visualise, so when the ball comes I’ve already played it.

“And a lot of it comes down to practising slip catching. It really sorts out your out-fielding because you build trust in your hands. At slip you’re so close and your body is not always in the exact right spot, so you have to trust your hands in that split second. In the outfield, when the ball is in the final third [of its trajectory] and you’re running full speed or diving, a lot of the same principles apply.”

It is the kind of clear, crisp insight that sees Jordan tipped to be a fine coach in retirement, if he chooses, and perhaps a fourth tick for the selectors in the short term too. A lack of local knowledge was among the diagnoses for England’s grim 50-over World Cup in India last year but in the Caribbean there should be no shortage. Keiron Pollard, the Trinidadian T20 pioneer, has been drafted in as consultant coach, while in Archer and Jordan they have two sons of Barbados.

“We’ll definitely bring that knowledge of conditions,” says Jordan. “Understanding the cross winds is one example – that’s pretty unique to the Caribbean. It’s trying to be smart with it, not get carried away, especially during the day games as it can often drop at night.”

Phil Salt, glowing with form of late, also lived on the island for six years growing up. Jordan was 17 when they first met, Salt stopping him for a photograph at a charity match in Surrey and the pair later going on to become teammates at Sussex. “He was always really inquisitive about what it takes to succeed at the top level and we struck up a bond,” says Jordan. “He’s absolutely killing it at the moment.”

“It’s also a unique tournament and guys who weren’t in form [in the 50-over World Cup] are definitely in form now. We are defending champions, so it’s important to understand we will be hunted, 100%, so we must match or surpass the other teams’ intensity. But check it out, the last three T20 World Cups we’ve been finalists, semi-finalists and champions, so our pedigree in this format is pretty strong.”

Ten years an England cricketer, a World Cup winner who never shirks the clutch moments and is mentor to others, the same can be said about Jordan himself.

www.theguardian.com

Chris Jordan: ‘We will be hunted but our T20 pedigree is pretty strong’

The veteran all-rounder tells Ali Martin he is confident his local knowledge and coolness under pressure can help England retain their T20 World Cup title in the Caribbean
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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