IPL 2024: England players likely to miss out on IPL play-offs
IPL 2024: England players participating in the Indian Premier League will miss the league’s playoffs due to Pakistan’s tour of England and the four T20i matches that will ensue.
The English Cricket Board on April 30th, Tuesday, announced a 15-member squad for the ICC T20i World Cup 2024 and that same squad will play Pakistan at the end of May, right before the World Cup begins. So the players participating in the IPL have to return home in time for the series.
The decision was released by Rob Key, England men’s managing director to the players participating in the IPL that they will have to come back home before the series and the play-offs scheduled from May 21 to May 26th. This decision will most likely affect Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Butler who is the national team’s captain, Kolkata Knight Riders’ Phil Salt, and Chennai Super Kings’ veteran spinner Moeen Ali.
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Other English players are playing in the league but due to poor performance, their teams are not going to qualify for the play-offs easily. It will become a matter of ifs and buts for them to qualify.
Rob Key says that they just want the players to be in tune and spend a bit of time together before the series as this has not been the case for a few recent series but the Pakistan series is important and they want the players to be ready for that in advance and for that, they will have to come home.
He also said that the players need to learn and understand their roles before a big event, a team must know what playing XI is going to work best for them so that when the team flies to Barbados for their first match of the World Cup, they will be in tune.
The English Cricket Team will leave on May 31st for Barbados to play their first match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 against Scotland on June 4th.
England squad: Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonathan Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, Mark Wood
