England’s star batter Jonny Bairstow has predicted a robust comeback from the Three Lions after the staff’s stunning defeat to Afghanistan on October 15. England had been surprised by Afghanistan of their third World Cup 2023 game and located themselves underneath strain to defend their title.
“There’s a reason why the guys won the T20 World Cup last year; there’s a reason why the guys won the 2019 World Cup, and we’re the defending champions,” Bairstow was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. “Just because we’ve lost a game to Afghanistan would not make us dangerous cricketers or something like that.
“You look at [Fazalhaq] Farooqi, his record in the IPL; you look at the three spinners that they’ve got and their records. Just because they play for Afghanistan, they’re no slouches. They’ve actually got some of the world’s best in there and they’ve got match-winners. We lost that game, we didn’t play well enough, and we’ve accepted that and moved on from that.”
Bairstow highlighted England’s gorgeous comeback after shedding three group-stage video games throughout the earlier version of the World Cup in 2019. England completed third within the factors desk with simply six factors from 9 video games however went on to win their first-ever ODI World Cup.Â
“The group remains calm within it. Belief and confidence isn’t something that’s been questioned one bit. That’s something that you’re able to call upon when you do lose a game. We lost to Sri Lanka in 2019. We lost to Pakistan in 2019. We still went through. There were similar things that I’m sure you guys [the press] wrote in 2019 at the home World Cup,” Bairstow added.
