“I don’t think there’s too much worry” – England opening batter confident of his team’s chances in ODI WC
England’s cricket board recently announced their 15-man preliminary squad for the ODI World Cup, 2023. The defending champions, England will be eyeing to give incredible performances with thrilling matches and defend their crown.
The Three Lions’ opening batsman Jonny Bairstow believes his team will do well this time as well. The team has stayed together for quite some time now. Even though some players have not been a part of the team for a few months, that will not affect the team’s morale or performance. The biggest news that came from the English cricket board was the comeback of the team’s test captain Ben Stokes who announced retirement from the format last year.
Jonny Bairstow on ODI World Cup, 2023.
“We’ll rock up to Cardiff and see all the lads: it’ll be just like normal, It’s great to have a group that has a wealth of experience coming back together. It is going to be good fun. I don’t think there’s too much worry about cohesion, or people not having played together for two, six, 12, 18 months – whatever it may be. I don’t think that’s too much of a worry when the group has played together for seven or eight years. It’s one of those where you just fit back and you slot back into your roles,” said Jonny Bairstow.
“Naturally, there’ll be conversations around, ‘well, you’re not playing much 50-over cricket together’ and all this stuff. But the guys have been playing Test cricket or T20 cricket to have the skill set to play both of those is a skill set that you’re able to take both parts of into 50-over cricket. It can throw different bits at you”, said Jonny Bairstow.
England’s provincial Squad for ODI World Cup 2023 – Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes.
