The scheduling may be comical, but there is plenty at stake for players who know this team is devilishly hard to break into
here may be something faintly ridiculous, comical even, about England commencing a series in Bangladesh within hours of, but there is no lack of seriousness about the task facing them on their first visit here for seven years, nor about the group of players they have assembled for it.
This trip had originally been planned for the autumn of 2021, but was rescheduled for a variety of reasons, not least a chronic case of bubble fatigue.
With an Indian autumn on the horizon this might be handy experience, and England’s last 12 months in white-ball cricket, when they followed a disappointing home summer byBut if those memories provide some collective comfort before a potentially awkward assignment then– who belatedly joined the squad on Monday, arriving from Pakistan along with James Vince – is a reminder of what is on the line for the players, the opener paying for a summer of stumbles by losing his place not just in the team...
The sense of potential personal peril is real, and even without the injured Jonny Bairstow and the multi-format players preparing for the flight home from Wellington this is a devilishly hard team to squeeze into. If Roy and Dawid Malan open the batting in Wednesday’s opening ODI and Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali both play, at least one of Will Jacks, Phil Salt and Vince will have to be left out.
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