Head coach Chris Silverwood on Sunday confirmed that the Indian Premier League (IPL)-bound England gamers shall be out there for all the event, which implies these concerned within the ultimate levels are probably to miss the opening Test towards New Zealand.
The IPL is slated to start from April 9 with the ultimate scheduled to be performed on May 30, whereas the opening Test towards New Zealand begins on June 2.
“We haven’t looked at selection for the Test yet, but, for me, playing for your country is a big thing,” Silverwood stated throughout a digital press meet.
“It’s difficult to change anything, so they will be staying for the whole IPL as it stands at the moment,” he added.
The England Cricket Board (ECB) is reluctant about going again on an settlement made with the gamers that they’re allowed to play all the IPL and likewise an acceptance of the logistical challenges of adapting and altering plans to fly gamers again from sequence and tournaments in a bio-secure method. As a outcome, regardless of Silverwood saying ‘playing for your country is a big thing’ he additionally stated it was ‘difficult to change anything’ by way of the IPL.
The seven English gamers, who have been a part of the Test sequence towards Sri Lanka and India, embody Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes and Sam Curran.
Quite a lot of England’s all-format gamers missed Tests towards both Sri Lanka or India due to the ECB’s considerations about them spending nearly all of the primary 5 months of this yr in bio-secure bubbles due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic – a interval that features the IPL. As a outcome, Buttler, Archer, Stokes, Sam Curran, Mark Wood, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes all missed Tests they may in any other case have performed.
Silverwood as soon as once more justified England’s rotation coverage regardless of the 3-1 sequence loss to India. “The rotation system, I’m happy with that. You look at the amount of cricket that we’ve played and the amount we have in front of us, we have got to be proactive in looking after our players, making sure we keep them as fresh as possible so we can keep them going as long as possible,” the England head coach added.
The two Test matches towards New Zealand have been introduced in January and usually are not a part of the World Test Championships.
(with company inputs)
