England’s team selection or squad selection was just poor.
Sam Curran was picked for what reason? If you pick Woakes, why you need Curran? A mid 120kph lollipop “bowler” isn’t gonna cut it in India.
Liam Livingstone? God awful.
Leaving out Jason Roy or another aggressive opener was a key error.
You pick either Malan or Root. You don’t need both.
Don't disagree that the squad selection was poor, but not sure Root vs Malan is the issue. Those two are the top two run scorers so far and there's plenty scope for both if anyone else was scoring runs around them.
To my mind, they've not played enough ODI cricket with their "best" team, spent far too long shuffling players in and out, and as a result they still didn't know their best side when selecting players.
Duckett - known to be excellent against spin - not selected, Brook picked on form in other formats and not given sufficient time to learn ODI cricket, etc.
Muddled thinking on all fronts - Archer taken as travelling reserve while still goosed, Brook/Roy being left to the last second, players picked on T20 form not ODI...
Management of the campaign and the build up has been shambolic. Hopefully lessons will be learned and they'll start developing a core squad of ODI players who play regularly and play together. Big clear out of the ODI squad incoming so there is a chance for a rebuild.
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