by England looks at the Champions Trophy to ignore a dark tour in India, where Jos Buttler’s team lost the two sets of white bullets and was bleached 3-0 in the ODI.
Here, the AD news agency examines certain key problems before the trip to Pakistan, where England begins its tournament with a confrontation against the Old Rivals Australia on February 22.
How much is England a rut?
Even Brendon McCullum does not take over because the head coach could instantly transform the fortune of the sides of Blanc Ball of England.
They were beaten in seven matches out of eight in India and have now lost 16 of their last 23 ODI, barely the kind of shape that any team wants to go to a world event.
Tive in a few wounds to key staff and this trip was a miserable first experience for McCullum.
Are there any money lining?
To be clear, we want team results and playing India is one of the biggest series! But the champions trophy and the peak at the right time is what we aim 👍🏼👊🏼
– Ben Duckett (@ benduckett1) February 11, 2025
Ben Duckett attracted many criticisms for saying: “If we lose 3-0 against India, I don’t care as much as we beat them in the Champions Trophy final.”
In the end, however, he is right and his upward remark suggests that the morale of England not taking denigration despite the tour of bad worse.
If England in a way manages to win the Champions Trophy, this tour in India is fading.
Should they opt for a different approach in Pakistan?
McCullum urged England to be “observable” – and they were in India but for all bad reasons.
Strikers were invited to be aggressive but patainera against Spin, which they can expect more in Pakistan, while fast quisors have often seen their rhythm used against them, especially Jofra Archer.
However, McCullum and Captain Jos Buttler were careful to say that they will not edulize their tactics, insisting that what they are trying to implement have everyone’s support in the locker room.
Are they sufficiently perfected their methods?
I’m sorry, but I am absolutely gobcken that England has not had a team training session since the loss of the 1st ODI and the loss of the T20 series. How can it be? Seriously, how? I think Joe Root was the only player to have a net in this series, Post Nagpur. There is no …
– Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@ kP24) February 12, 2025
All side about a losing race is necessarily detractors.
But that has increased by a notch to Ahmedabad while Ravi Shastri and Kevin Pietersen speculated on their preparation, England not training for the last two ODIs in the middle of an exhaustive travel calendar and injury problems disassembly.
While training sessions under McCullum are now optional, England has trained at least six times on the tour, but eight games in the space of 22 days, all in different cities, leaves little room for maneuver So that the players season the folds.
Will England have to make changes to their team of the Champions Trophy?
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Tom Banton called the 3rd Odi coverage against India in Ahmedabad.
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– England Cricket (@EnglandCcket) February 9, 2025
Maybe. England has already been forced to exchange Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, a particular replacement with their different roles.
But Duckett injured the groin in Ahmedabad and while he beat, he is now a major doubt for the Champions Trophy.
The opener will have a scan when England heads to Abu Dhabi on Thursday, but any change must be paired by rubber by the International Cricket Council.
While Brydon Carse and Jamie Overton all have Niggles and Jamie Smith has been sidelined from the T20 series, England expects the quartet to be in good shape to face Australia .
Is there a reason for optimism?
While England has shot in India, a change of landscape and opposition – after Australia, Afghanistan and South Africa in the group phase – could simply be the tonic.
Joe Root and Harry Brook are the one and two numbers in the test of test strikers and surely cannot be kept for a long time, while the colleague Yorkshireman Adil Rashid was a bright rare light in India.
Buttler himself is due to a large score and if England can keep Archer, Carse, Overton and Mark Wood Fit, they have a rhythm attack to scare the opponents.
They could be a short-line short circuit and the balance of their team, with Overton too high at number seven on Asian terrain, is open to the debate, but it is always a very good side on paper.
