{"id":297501,"date":"2023-11-13T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=297501"},"modified":"2023-11-13T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:25:58","slug":"england-batter-ben-duckett-out-to-seize-his-big-chance-to-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/%d1%81ricket\/england-batter-ben-duckett-out-to-seize-his-big-chance-to-impress\/","title":{"rendered":"England batter Ben Duckett out to seize his big chance to impress"},"content":{"rendered":"
A refreshed Ben Duckett wants to take the Caribbean by storm next month after watching his \u2018tired\u2019 team-mates struggle at the World Cup in India.<\/p>\n
Duckett, who has been at the heart of England\u2019s Bazball revolution in Test cricket, intends to show what he can do in 50-over cricket when a new four-year World Cup cycle begins with the first of three ODIs against West Indies in Antigua on December 3.<\/p>\n
And he believes the simplicity of his approach, which essentially remains unaltered whatever the format, will stand him in good stead as he looks to add to the eight one-day caps he has won since his debut in Bangladesh seven years ago.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve been a part of the best generation of England white-ball cricket and it\u2019s been near to impossible to break into the team,\u2019 he told Mail Sport. \u2018Now there\u2019s an opportunity to go and get my place.\u2019<\/p>\n
Managing director Rob Key said on Sunday he felt England\u2019s one-day team had not been helped by comparisons with the aggressive Bazballers. And with many of the 30-somethings who have fallen so short in India being omitted from the trip to the Caribbean, a new-look one-day side will include the Test-match top three of Duckett, Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope.<\/p>\n
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England batter Ben Duckett wants to take the Caribbean by storm next month<\/p>\n
Once, England used the one-day team as the route into Test cricket. Then, under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, the Test side copied their one-day counterparts\u2019 aggression.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, with Key observing that the 50-over team has gone away from the style that helped make England double white-ball world champions, it is as if the wheel has turned full circle.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Duckett hesitates to call himself young, but admits: \u2018The exciting brand that the likes of me, Zak and Popey play is exactly what England want in both formats. It will be an opportunity for some fresh faces to go and show what they can do.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve always found I don\u2019t have a different gameplan for Test match, 50-over and T20. In the past I\u2019d always say you just take a few more risks in T20, whereas now I\u2019m running at Josh Hazlewood in a Test match on day one.<\/p>\n
\u2018There\u2019s also Harry Brook, Will Jacks and Phil Salt – there are so many names. All those guys are playing a similar brand of cricket throughout the formats, which makes life a lot easier.\u2019<\/p>\n
Duckett does not believe that the squad for the Caribbean spells the end for England\u2019s Class of 2019, and says the selectors were always going to look elsewhere for a trip that starts so soon after the World Cup.<\/p>\n
He says he was told he was \u2018pretty close\u2019 to selection for the tournament himself, and found it \u2018tough\u2019 to watch England lose six games out of nine.<\/p>\n
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The 29-year-old\u00a0has been at the heart of England\u2019s Bazball revolution in Test cricket<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019m sure the lads are more gutted than anyone,\u2019 he said. \u2018It\u2019s a side that were good enough to go and win. I\u2019m looking at half or three-quarters of that squad, and the timing being straight after the English summer. All the lads have been playing so much cricket.<\/p>\n
\u2018I felt for them flying straight off at the end of the summer, with no break, going straight to a World Cup in India. It must have been incredibly hard, and there must have been tired bodies.\u2019<\/p>\n
Duckett, by contrast, has had six weeks off after the end of a summer in which he opened in all five Ashes Tests and made an unbeaten 107 off 78 balls in an ODI against Ireland in Bristol.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve had a really nice break, and I feel fresh and ready to go.\u2019 Music, after the last few weeks, to English ears.<\/p>\n