The 15-player England team for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, which will start on October 16 in Australia, has been revealed, know the squad players list and captain
After a disastrous run for his country’s team and in The Hundred, Phil Salt, who made his T20I debut earlier this year, is preferred by England over Jason Roy, who is left out of the 15-man group. Roy has participated in 11 T20 Internationals since the final T20 World Cup in the UAE in 2021, scoring 206 runs with an average of 18.72.
T20 World Cup 2022 England Squad, Team Players List, Captain, Reserve Players
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Salt’s participation in the ongoing contest He received The Hundred as a reward for his outstanding domestic performance. He is one of the top run scorers, currently at No. 2 with 313 runs in eight games, averaging 44.71.
Mark Wood, Chris Woakes, and Dawid Malan have all been called back.
Dawid Malan is also summoned back after helping out in England’s previous series against South Africa. On a like-for-like basis, the left-hander who will take Morgan’s place had a strike rate of 148.27 in T20 Internationals this year. He is now the leading run-scorer in The Hundred with 358 runs at a 59.66 average.
According to the ECB, Mark Wood and Chris Woakes, two injured seamers, have both fully recovered and have been added to the squad of 15.
Player Reservations
Tymal Mills, who led the league in wickets until an injury ended the previous season, has been left out of the starting eleven but has been added to the travelling roster alongside Liam Dawson and Richard Gleeson.
The team will play Afghanistan on October 22 in Perth to kick off the 2022 season in an effort to improve on their semi-final finish in the T20 World Cup the previous year.
Eng to play Pak before the world cup
Five uncapped players were chosen by England for the Pakistan tour prior to the T20 World Cup: Jordan Cox, Tom Helm, Will Jacks, Olly Stone, and Luke Wood.
Moeen Ali will lead England in seven Twenty20 Internationals against Babar Azam’s team due to Buttler’s calf injury. England anticipates Buttler will be fully fit for the final games of the series against Pakistan.
The T20 World Cup team is the same one that was selected for the Australia series.
Squad for T20 World Cup and T20I series against Australia:
Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Chris Woakes, and Mark Wood.
Travel Reserve: Tymal Mills, Liam Dawson, and Richard Gleeson