‘I don’t know where that….’ – Dawid Malan on speculation about his inclusion in England’s 2023 World Cup Squad Over Harry Brook
England’s top order batsmen Dawid Malan recently opened up about being selected in the ODI World Cup 2023 squad and his comparisons with the young English batsman Harry Brook. A lot of chatter has surfaced the internet about the selection of Dawid Malan over Harry Brook, which left Malan confused.
Silencing the rumours, Dawid Malan accepted that there is no scope for comparisons between him and Brook considering he is a top order batsman, while the latter is a middle order batsman. Dawid Malan also talked about how he was extremely happy to be selected in the squad after all the hard work he has put in for the past few months.
David Malan on comparisons with Harry Brook
“I know there are people who’ve missed out and I have so much sympathy for them. From a personal point of view I was exceptionally pleased to get that call because I felt I’ve worked really hard to get in that squad. Especially in the top three, I know people compare me to Brooky but I bat top three and he bats four, five or six so I don’t know where that comparison comes from”, said Dawid Malan.
While talking about the recent season of The Hundred, Dawid Malan openly accepted that it took him in a very bad place since he was dropped from the Trent Rockets team after playing four matches. Malan was dropped on the same day, The English cricket board picked him in the squad for the ODI World Cup 2023. In the four matches, he played Malan could only manage to score 28 runs collectively.
“To get dropped after four games the day you get picked for England was hard to take. That put me in a pretty bad place because the rest of the year I’ve been hitting the ball well and scoring runs everywhere, and suddenly I’m out of form and this and that because I’ve had four innings, which is a load of nonsense, as I showed in Durham. People make up their minds about how people are hitting them because you have three or four low scores”, concluded Dawid Malan.
