On July 14, 2019, history was created as England won their maiden ODI World Cup trophy in what is hailed as the greatest ODI match of all-time, defeating New Zealand in the final at the iconic Lord’s ground.
The Ireland-born Eoin Morgan marshaled England into a white-ball revolution after the group-stage exit in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and created a monster of a team, changing the wave of white-ball cricket in England. England also won the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia, becoming the first-ever team to hold both the world titles together, and the Three Lions are hailed as arguably the best white-ball team in the world.
They will come into the World Cup 2023 in India as strong favorites and the Jos Buttler-led unit will aim to successfully defend their world cup crown.
England have retained most of their core from the 2019 World Cup, but there are a half-a-dozen changes in their World Cup 2023 squad from what was the squad four years ago.
Six England players who were part of the 2019 World Cup squad, but will not play in 2023 World Cup:
Eoin Morgan
Eoin Morgan retired last year after struggling with the double whammy of a groin injury and loss of form. He’d been out of form in 2021 and 2022, and eventually hanged up his boots from international cricket in June 2022.
But Morgan had created this England team which, led by Jos Buttler, went on to win the T20 World Cup 2022 last year in Australia. He’s hailed as one of the best captains England have ever had and one of the most charismatic and inspirational leaders for the players.
Tom Curran
Surrey’s bowling all-rounder Tom Curran was picked in the 2019 World Cup squad after he’d impressed in white-ball cricket, in particular in T20 cricket as a death-overs specialist. Tom Curran, however, didn’t get to play a single game in the 2019 WC.
Tom then lost his place, incidentally, to his brother, Sam Curran, who will feature in the 2023 World Cup.
Jofra Archer
Jofra Archer is not named in the provisional squad announced for the 2023 World Cup as he continues to recover from his elbow injury.
Archer was fastracked into England’s 2019 World Cup squad – the ECB had relaxed the residency period for an non-English player to be eligible to play for England to get Archer in the squad – and he delivered: Archer picked 20 wickets in the tournament – the most an England bowler has taken in a World Cup – and kept his cool in the Super Over in the final against New Zealand.
Since 2021, however, Archer has struggled with his elbow injury and currently is not part of the 2023 WC squad.
Liam Dawson
Left-arm orthodox spinner and all-rounder Liam Dawson was also part of England’s 2019 World Cup squad, but didn’t get to play a game as England had Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid as the two preferred spinners. Dawson then found himself out of the side and has only featured in 6 ODIs in his career so far.
Liam Plunkett
Liam Plunkett must have felt hard done by when he was dropped from the England team in the immediate match after the 2019 World Cup as England didn’t think of him stretching till the 2023 WC.
Plunkett was one of the key men for England in their victory in 2019 WC: he took 11 wickets in 7 matches, including a 3-wicket haul in the final, which included the wicket of Williamson.
Plunkett was 33 at that time, and England didn’t see him playing in the 2023 WC, hence he was dropped.
James Vince
James Vince was called into England’s 2019 World Cup squad just ahead of the tournament as the replacement for Alex Hales, who was dropped from the squad after failing the recreational drug test for the second time in his career.
It was a bold, risky call made by Eoin Morgan and England selectors, but they found Hales not respecting the values and ethos of the team and was dropped from the squad.
Vince came in the squad and played 3 matches in the middle of the tournament when Jason Roy was injured. Vince couldn’t make an impact, managing only 40 runs in 3 innings, before Roy returned.
Vince remained inconsistent and couldn’t convince the selectors and is now out of the 2023 WC plans.
