England announce final 15-member squad for ICC ODI World Cup, include snubbed youngster

Cricket World Cup 2023: The ICC ODI World Cup is just less than a month away and all the teams are busy preparing themselves for the biggest cricketing carnival. The English cricket team is the champion of the ODI World Cup title and they will like to stamp their authority on the world and retain their title. England take on New Zealand in their first World Cup match on October 5, 2023

3 things you need to know:

• The ODI World Cup starts on October 5, 2023
• England are the defending champions of the World Cup
• The English side recently defeated New Zealand in an ODI series by 4-1

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England announce their 15-member strong ODI World Cup squad:

Our @CricketWorldCup 1⃣5⃣ 😍

Are we excited yet?! 😆#CWC23 | #EnglandCricket pic.twitter.com/u5FOly7rAk

— England Cricket (@englandcricket) September 17, 2023

Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes

National selector Luke Wright said:

We have selected a squad we are confident can go to India and win the World Cup. We are blessed with an incredibly strong group of white-ball players which was underlined by the performances in the series win against a very good New Zealand team. The strength of the group has meant that we have had to make some tough decisions on world-class players with Jason Roy missing out and Harry Brook coming into the squad

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The Harry Brook conundrum

Interestingly, youngster Harry Brook, who is one of the most promising youngsters in international cricket missed out of the provisional squad, but his tremendous show in the domestic circuit and the recently concluded ENG vs NZ series, he has been included in the final squad of the World Cup. The English cricket team will open their campaign against New Zealand in what happens to be the recap of the high-octane 2019 ODI World Cup finals that the Kiwis lost on the basis of boundary count