England Team 2022: Complete analysis of Jos Buttler and Co. for T20 World Cup

England has a strong chance of being reigning world champion in both of limited-overs formats despite a renewed push to make test cricket its priority.

England squ hes into Twenty20 World Cup in Australia as current titleholders in 50-over World Cup following ir success on home soil in 2019.

country's first 50-over world title came after a directive from England and Wales Cricket Board to shift more resources to white-ball cricket. national team also came close to winning T20 World Cup in 2016, reaching final and looking in good shape to beat West Indies before Carlos Brathwaite smashed four straight sixes in an extraordinary last over.

Test cricket has typically been primary focus in England, however, and a humiliating Ashes tour Down Under — Australia swept to a 4-0 series win — sparked what was termed by ECB as a “red-ball reset," essentially prioritizing longer format once again.

STAR POWER

Still, expectations remain high ahe of global T20 championship, especially given star power that has been ded to England's squ for tournament.

Ben Stokes, w England's test captain, may have quit one-day internationals but allrounder is still available for T20 and played in that format on international st for first time in warmup win over Australia on Sunday.

And n re's Alex Hales, big-hitting opener who t long ago was exiled from England team following a recreational drugs test failure. It led to England’s white-ball captain at time, Eoin Morgan, delivering a scathing condemnation of Hales’ behavior, saying he h shown a “complete disregard” for team values and couldn’t be trusted.

With Jos Buttler w captain, Hales has been welcomed back into fold after a three-year absence following an injury to Jonny Bairstow and appears to have secured a starting spot in team after smashing 84 off 51 against Australia in Perth at weekend. England followed that up with ar eight-run win in Canberra on Wednesday to clinch series against Australia with a game to spare.

Hales is ar trump card for England owing to his experience of playing in Australia, where he has starred in Big Bash League — amassing more than 1,800 runs across his 60 career innings in franchise tournament at a strike rate over 150.

With Stokes, fellow big-hitter Liam Livingstone and Dawid Malan — recently . 1-ranked batter in T20 internationals — in team, England has a batting lineup to envy. 23-year-old Harry Brook is also an exciting dition after being England's top scorer in recent T20 series win in Pakistan , hitting 237 runs in six innings.

While England doesn't have same X-factor in its bowling stocks, likes of spinner il Rashid and pacer Mark Wood have ability to turn matches quickly.

INJURIES

If fit, Jofra Archer and Bairstow would be certain starters and explosive, heline players in England's team. Inste, y will be watching tournament on TV. ir circumstances are very different. Archer, fast bowler, hasn't played for England in any format since March 2021 because of a string of injury issues — from a serious elbow problem that required two operations to fix to a stress fracture of back that ruled him out of entire international summer this year. Bairstow, England's star batter in 2022, broke his left leg and dislocated his left ankle while playing golf last month, just hours after being named in England’s squ for T20 World Cup. He h successful surgery more than a week later and won’t play again until next year.

SCHEDULE

England opens against Afghanistan in Perth on Oct. 22 and also has Australia and New Zealand in Group 1 of Super 12s. Two or opponents will join group after preliminary st of tournament.

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE

In 2010, England won third edition of T20 World Cup when a Kevin Pietersen-inspired team beat Australia in final in West Indies. That was first global title won by England, which followed it up nine years later by winning 50-over World Cup. English have reached one or T20 final — losing to West Indies in 2016.

SQU

Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, il Rashid, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Alex Hales.

Im: AP