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The England cricket team will enter the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 on a positive note after recently picking up a 2-0 series win over Pakistan in the 4-match T20I series that began on the 22nd of May and concluded with England winning the 4th T20I 30th May.

The England cricket team will enter the competition as the defending champions after winning the last edition of the T20 World Cup in 2022 in Australia, beating Pakistan in the final.

England has once again announced a good squad for the tournament and is one of the favourites to win the whole thing and defend their title. In this article, we take a look at the top 5 England players to watch out for in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.

Jos Buttler

England captain Jos Buttler will have to play a crucial role for England in this ICC T20 World Cup 2024, not just with his brilliant captaincy and wicketkeeping skills, but also with his bat. Buttler is one of the best English batters and was in great touch in the IPL 2024. He scored 359 runs in 11 matches with a strike rate of 140.78 and an average of 39.89. He also scored a century vs eventual champions KKR. In the Pakistan series, he scored 84 and 39 runs in the 2 matches.

Phil Salt

Keep an eye on IPL 2024 Champion and England’s opening batter . Salt has been in great touch since last year. His double centuries in the T20I series vs Pakistan earned him a call to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team as a replacement for Jason Roy. He then pulled off a great opening duo partnership with Sunil Narine and eventually played a key role in KKR winning the IPL 2024. Salt played 12 matches and scored 435 runs with a strike rate of 182.01 and an average of 39.55. In the Pakistan series, he scored 13 and 45 runs, maintaining his quick run-scoring batting.

Moeen Ali

If there are spin-friendly pitches for the duration of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, which suspectsects will be, England could be looking at Moeen Ali a lot. Moeen Ali’s all-round abilities will come into play for England in the entire tournament. Ali is a great middle-order enforcer. He can build partnerships and accelerate the run-scoring rate when needed. He can also bowl 4 overs spell. The off-spinner will be playing a key role with the ball in the middle overs for England alongside the likes of Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone.

Adil Rashid

Talking about Adil Rashid, he is not one he those very well-known spinners in the sport. Adil Rashid has had success for England in all forms of the sport and once again if there is an assist for the spinner in the wickets for the T20 World Cup 2024, especially in the West Indies, Adil Rashid could be a surprise package for England.

Jofra Archer

The value of Jofra Archer has certainly gone down somewhat. But the 29-year-old made his comeback recently in the Pakistan T20I series. Archer missed months of cricket due to a prolonged injury. Before his injury, he was hailed one of the best pacers in the world, as a validation, Mumbai Indians spent 8 crores to get the pacer in 2022, even though they knew he wouldn’t be available for IPL 2022 entirely, all that to just see the dream duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer, but it never materialized. Archer was ruled out of IPL 2023 mid-season due to injury after playing 6 matches and taking only 2 wickets, whereas Bumrah was out of the tournament from the beginning. In his return series vs Pakistan, Archer took 2 wickets in the first match followed by another wicket in the 2nd match i.e. 4th match of the series.

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