England’s managing director of men’s cricket Rob Key has revealed the reason behind Jason Roy’s exclusion from the T20 World Cup 2022 squad. Roy was not influential in this t20 world cup Last year, he scored just one fifty in five matches. His poor form continued even after the tournament. Since November 2021, he has been able to score only 206 runs at an average of 18.72. While it was not an easy decision for the England management to drop him, Rob Key believes it was necessary for the betterment of the team.
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“That was what we really spent the most time with, trying to do the best thing,” Keys said. “The way we went about it, we almost worked on the World Cup XI and the team for that, then we worked back from there. And that’s where those decisions came. We thought about who was the best, the best opening partnership. Which was it for the World Cup and we realized that… it’s as unfortunate a time as it is for Jason Roy. He’s in bad form at the worst of times.”
England plays a seven-match T20I series against Pakistan from 20 to 30 September as a build-up to the main event. However, with little time left, Key admitted that Roy’s involvement would have been a ‘gamble’.
“It wasn’t like you could have used Pakistan, you would be playing a gamble in Pakistan whether they would find form at that point of time. So it just felt with the abundance of openers we had and in fact, we felt That Jonny Bairstow is one of the best opening batsmen in the world in T20 cricket.” And there would be Jos Butler, and then we work back from that point.”
While Key was firm on his decision about Roy, he believes the 32-year-old has a lot of cricket left in him and can make a comeback if he can get back on track.
He said, “To be honest, he has to go looking for form. This is not a good time to lose form in this format. The game is about confidence. This format. When he is playing well, he is in this format. “He is at the top of the game. So I don’t see his T20 career getting over.”
“It’s just a matter of finding form and I’m sure there are a lot of opportunities, with the abundance of T20 cricket around the world to find that form again. I certainly don’t see at that age that he is.” , that this is the end of Jason Roy.”
Ki also thinks that Roy is at his best in the 50-over format. Roy was brilliant for England in the 2019 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup at home. In eight matches, the opener scored 443 runs at an average of 63.28. With just over a year left in the next Cricket World Cup, Roy has plenty of time to consolidate his position in that team.
“We will see him in the 50-over format, which I would argue is his strongest suit. So we still see him as a part of that set-up. He is missing with the white-ball series at the moment That we had, then also going into The Hundred, we realized that it was a gamble to continue going to Pakistan and then straight to Australia, depending on where the team going to the World Cup goes from there.
“He was obviously very disappointed but he needs a chance to show that he hasn’t finished in international cricket, which none of us think he is. He’s a fantastic player. It’s just that time for him.” It’s been terrible.”
Also missing from England’s T20 World Cup squad is 33-year-old Alex Hales, who last featured in a white-ball international in 2019. Key concedes, while Hales has made up for his past mistakes, with Jos Buttler-Jonny Bairstow opening. The combination will be more beneficial for the side when they go to Australia.
“When we started talking about who we think is the best opening partner for Jos Buttler, Alex Hales was mentioned a lot. But we thought Jonny Bairstow would go ahead and do that in the World Cup. Were.
“I’ve said on several occasions that Alex Hales has given his time for his misdeeds and now it’s just on form to choose and whether or not we think is the best person to go there. For the time being we felt that Bairstow is the best opener for the World Cup.”