Marcus Trescothick admitted England’s next generation are being held back by an absence of 50-over cricket.
England’s young guns were defeated in Barbados as West Indies claimed a 2-1 win in an ODI series where several touring players were familiarising themselves with the format or learning on the job.
With one of the best young talent hoovered by The Hundred within the last three years, their exposure to List A cricket is diminishing because the One-Day Cup runs concurrently and is, in essence, a secondary tournament.
Jordan Cox had just 4 List A matches under his belt and Dan Mousley no experience in a one-day game in greater than three years before the Caribbean trip while, ahead of the series opener, Adil Rashid, one in all the few senior heads within the group, had more ODI caps than his 10 team-mates combined.
Lacking Experience
Trescothick, England’s interim white-ball head coach, knows the situation is way from ideal, as he said: “There’s not an enormous amount of experience on this current team at once.
“It’s not all the time going to be easy to maintain getting games into them, there’s not an enormous amount to play back at home and a lot of the white-ball cricket played all over the world now’s T20.
“That may be a challenge and we’re aware of that. It’s not helping since you’re not getting the quantity of games that potentially players would really like to get and really construct an understanding of the sport.
“But you recognize why that’s. That’s the structure that we’re given to play and we’ll make a fist of it and make it work as much as we are able to.”
Phil Salt enhanced his repute with a few fifties, including a battling innings in Wednesday’s eight-wicket defeat in Bridgetown, but he had been on a weight-reduction plan of T20 or Hundred matches this yr.
The opening batter said ahead of the third ODI he would relish playing in a domestic 50-over competition to search out some fluency but Trescothick identified it just isn’t that easy.
Needing more 50-Over cricket
Asked whether some kids could forgo matches in The Hundred to play within the One-Day Cup, Trescothick said: “I’m not going to say against some other competition but in fact we would like more 50-over cricket one way or the other.
“We know the way necessary Test cricket is in England and having the domestic T20 competition or Hundred competitions we’ve got, they’re vitally necessary to our game.
“How we get the balance right is absolutely difficult because the quantity of international cricket and all the pieces else that goes around it, that’s challenging to do.
“For the powers above to try to balance that structure and get that right, it’s something for them to have a look at but it surely’s not going to be easy.
“I’m just taking hold of this team for this short time frame. We all know who the persons are: the board and the managing directors, all these different people, it’s their job to attempt to work out.”
Cox is about to fly back to the UK on Thursday, missing the T20 series which starts this weekend, in preparation for his involvement in England’s Test tour of Latest Zealand starting later this month.
Cox, who is about to take the wicketkeeping gloves with Jamie Smith on paternity leave, had a difficult tour with 22 runs in three innings while he’s yet to make 20 in five knocks in an England shirt.
Trescothick added: “I’ll have a chat with him before he goes. It can be an exciting time, the subsequent month in Latest Zealand might be really exciting for him.”
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