London: All the countries are announcing teams for T20 World Cup 2024. England has also announced its 15-member squad for the tournament, in which Philip Salt, who is batting explosively in the IPL, has also been selected. Bowler Joffra Archer is also included in the squad, Archer was out of the team for a long time due to injury.
Jos Buttler will be seen captaining England in the T20 World Cup. England’s ace batsman Philip Salt is stealing the show with his strong performance in the IPL. He played a brilliant inning of 68 runs against Delhi on Monday itself. Earlier, Salt had created a stir by scoring 78 runs against Punjab with his explosive batting. Not only this, in the current season Salt scored 89 runs against Lucknow, 48 against RCB while Sunrisers 54 runs were scored against Hyderabad.
In this way, he has scored fifty four times so far. However, England has to play a 4 T20 match series against Pakistan before the T20 World Cup. Due to which the players selected in the series can return home only in the middle of the IPL.
These include Philip Salt. The T20 series between Pakistan and England will be played from May 22. Chris Woakes has not got a chance in the team selected by England for the T20 World Cup, but Chris Jordan has been successful in making a place along with him. Along with Philip Salt, Will Jacques has also got a chance in the team. Will Jacques had recently scored a stormy century in 41 balls for RCB in IPL 2024.
England squad for T20 World Cup
Jos Buttler(captain), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacques, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.
