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Former England white-ball captain Eoin Morgan believes winning the 2023 ICC World Cup will be a bigger achievement for the side as compared to clinching the 2019 title on home soil.
England, the defending champions who won the 2019 title under Morgan’s leadership, will be opening their 2023 campaign in a re-match of the 2019 final against New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
“Quietly behind the scenes Buttler and head coach Matthew Mott have been planning for this World Cup but, if you asked them, they would probably say it has been unbelievably challenging. The side has chopped and changed quite a lot while there were question marks over the squad with the late omission of Jason Roy and inclusion of Harry Brook.”
“Winning here would carry a lot more weight than winning at home. I am still extremely hopeful that England can defend the title, though,” wrote Morgan in his column for Sky Sports on Wednesday.
Morgan also said Jos Buttler hasn’t got the support for the build-up to the tournament like he got during the 2019 World Cup. “The challenges for me going into 2019 were completely different to what Jos has gone through coming into this tournament.”
He signed off by saying Buttler is a skipper who does things in his own way. “The biggest compliment I can pay the captain is that he does things his own way. He is not trying to replicate what I would do.”
“Jos' decision-making ability is as good as anybody else's under pressure and he went into his first tournament as captain, last year's T20 World Cup, and won the trophy, which is not an easy thing to do.”
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