ICC Champions Trophy: England’s awful run of form leaves Jos Buttler’s side needing to ‘do an Australia’ | Cricket News happymamay

England will look to “Australia” because it begins the Champions Cup against the same opposition in Lahore on Saturday, on the air on Sky Sports.

Australia is the masters of the ICC event with questions about their competitiveness – then win them.

We saw this in the 2021 T20 and 2023 World Cup.

Australia’s struggles leaked to the stages of the group of those competitions – which were carried out by England in the release of T20 in the United Arab Emirates, and then lost convincingly in the first two games of the 50th Jambouri after two years, to hosted India and also South Africa.

But in both cases, they ended up raising the cup, which proves their mistake. They took revenge on India and South Africa when it was really important in the ODI World Cup, where they struck the first in the final match after he saw the latter in half a nerve.

Australia enters the Champions Cup with doubts again after the successive defeats of the Sri Lanka team, which was not even qualified for the tournament and their team (more about it a little), but England is also in chaos.

Problems accumulate on a tour of India

You may not have seen the sad white football round in India, but you should have heard the details of Goryy.

Seven eight defeats, including 3-0 sweep in Odis. The fighters are baffled by rotation and not pressing for great degrees. The same pace attack with no left arm options.

The apparent lack of No. 7 is real. A series of fallen injuries, including Jofra Artcher. Accusations that they are not training enough and spend a lot of time at the golf course.

It was not at the beginning, Brendon McCulum, the new white football coach, hoped to get it.

When Eoin Morgan finally managed to stamp its mark on the limited team after the 2015 World Cup, England entered every global competition as one of the favorite candidates, if not the team that must be overcome.

But this is not the place where they are now sitting with the problems mentioned above – and the fact that they have lost the last four ODI series – means – Sky Sports’ Michael Atheon imagines the side that is struggling to get out of a group that also includes Afghanistan and South Africa.

How the strong decreased.

However, England does not need to take a look only at the weekend – their weakness – knowing that the transformation is possible, and with the champion cup such a short and sharp tournament, a little momentum can move you a long way.

A big championship for Captain Bater

The familiar path of Australia from deleting the winners is the Jos Buttler men who will look to walk within the next few weeks, and if they do not do that – or at least they make the semi -finals – you feel that this may be for the leader.

After the Fiftieth World Cup in 2023, when they were thrown in the first round and almost failed to qualify for this Champions Cup, then in defense of the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean region when they reached the semi -finals, but only won one of the nation that plays the test, may not be done Tolerance with another performance.

This means that the clash with Australia can be made or broken. Earn it and there is some breathing room with two of the three of the three wins needed to make the last four but lose it and the troubles will be fermented. Therefore, it is useful for their old competitors to be very exhausted.

Not only Australia loses its usual cables in Mitchell Starc (personal reasons), Pat Kameins (ankle) and Josh Hazliowood (hip), but all the molds Mitchell Marsch (return), Cameron Green (Odeh) and Marcus Stanis (retired), too.

David Warner has also retired since the 2023 World Cup – Australia has lost nearly 7000 ODI there – with those who are replacing him at the top of the request, the last of which is Jake Fraser – Macjork and Matthew Short, and not exactly the lower position.

Add in Marnus Labuschagne now away from the one -day jogging machine, there should be optimism in the England camp, although Travis Head, Steve Smith, Adam Zamba and Swiss Army knife remained Gilin Maxwell (brutality with bats, trusted with the ball, amazing in This field) is always likely to produce some magic.

Rashid: We can win the Champions Cup

What should also encourage England is its clean bills of the health band – and conditions.

The friendly surfaces in India are likely to be replaced with a spinning tawaaf in Pakistan, which helps their weapons fighters and a quick thread, and the Trump card can be Adel Rashid.

He was recently described as the most important player in the team by Buttler, and despite the celebration of his thirty -seventh birthday a few days ago, he is still at the height of his strength.

Rashid said, “I am not thinking about retirement.” “When the time comes, the time will be right. I still feel satisfied in terms of moving in the field, running and bowling, always.”

Yorkshirman was part of the Fiftieth World Cup 2019 at home, then T20 victory after three years and issued another big ICC title.

“Regardless of what happened in India, we have this belief that we have talent, international players, and the team winners to win the championship.”

Results and compositions of the heroic cup 🏏

Group a

Group B

• February 21Afghanistan versus South Africa (Karachi)
• February 22: Australia against England (Lahore)
• February 25: Australia versus South Africa (Rawalbende)
• February 26: Afghanistan against England (Lahore)
• February 28: Afghanistan versus Australia (Lahore)
• March 1: South Africa against England (Karachi)

The semi -finals

• March 4: The semi -finals – A1 V B2 (Dubai)
• March 5: The semi -finals 2 – A2 V B1 (Lahore)

last

• March 9: Final (Lahore or Dubai)