England leg-spinner Adil Rashid is confident that ‘they have mindsets of champions. He looks past the ‘poor run’ at the Cricket World Cup and shifts focus to winning the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup trophy twice in a row.
“We had a poor run or whatever. It is what it is. We could have had a better tournament. We didn’t play well: bat, ball, as a team, as a unit – everything. But this is a completely different format where we’re currently world champions.
“We’re confident. We’ve got the team, we’ve got the mindset, we’ve got the players, we’ve got the experience. If we go out there having the same belief, I think we’ll – hopefully – go all the way.
We don’t look at it as ‘we had a bad World Cup’ because that’s a completely different format. It’s 50-over, that’s not T20. We try not to mix both together,” added Rashid.
England Captain Jos Buttler Playing His Role
Jos Buttler‘s leadership development is essential to England’s T20 World Cup campaign. Matthew Mott has revealed a major change in strategy. He suggests that Buttler will value intuition and spontaneity over careful preparation and data analysis.
Buttler’s goal in making this tactical change was to provide his teammates the confidence to follow their gut feelings and make quick judgments under pressure.
Buttler’s goal of create a dynamic and flexible playing environment. Where players feel empowered to express themselves. And take advantage of opportunities is shown by the team’s emphasis on freedom and creativity.
The shift in England’s T20 cricket strategy to value spontaneity over planned decisions is part of a larger commitment to developing flexibility and adaptation.
Adil Rashid‘s support of this strategy, which he sees as a way to let players play with more autonomy, is consistent with the team’s overall objective of letting players express themselves completely on the pitch.
As the squad prepares to defend their Twenty20 title, Buttler’s transition to captain looks like a critical tactical move meant to unlock the team’s potential and increase their chances of winning on the global scene.
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Rashid’s Cricket Break & Power of Tape-Ball Cricket
Rashid has not played competitively since February, when he played three games at the ILT20 after a longer stint in the SA20. He went unsold in December’s IPL auction and no longer plays red-ball cricket so has been at home with his family, and will only have a short build-up to the World Cup when England plays four T20Is against Pakistan in late May.
Rashid was speaking at the ECB’s launch of a national tape-ball competition in Birmingham last week as part of its ‘core cities’ program. Richard Gould, the ECB’s chief executive, said that investing in tape-ball cricket can help the English game look beyond “clubs with picket fences around them”. England’s Rashid also believes the competition provides a legitimate talent pathway.
“Haris Rauf came in bowling quick with a tape ball, and next thing you know, he is playing for Pakistan and [in the] PSL,” Rashid said. “These things can happen. If you see somebody with an X-factor with a tape ball, but he’s actually bowling rockets and then you give him a cricket ball and you can do something similar, then you can fast-track them.”
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