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Cricket World Cup team of the tournament: Four England players named in ICC XI
![The simplistic view would be to see the four-day Test against Ireland as the calm between two storms for England this summer. The World Cup finished — and in some style, you may remember — nine days ago. The Ashes begin in nine days’ time.But there is too much at stake for that. This is an historic, hard-earned event for Irish cricket. England know all about Ireland, and the perils of underestimating them.Indeed, they nearly started their summer with an ODI defeat to Ireland, who are desperate for their first Test win.Do not expect Ireland to come quietly to Lord’s; they will bring scores of fans to a ground Tim Murtagh and Paul Stirling call home, while Andy Balbirnie used to play for Middlesex, too. Murtagh has 291 of his 800 first-class wickets at Lord’s, and Karl McDermott, the new Irish groundsman, looks likely to give him a pitch with a pleasingly green tinge.Boyd Rankin will not mind bloodying a few English noses after his only Test for them, at Sydney in 2014, went awry. Rankin is one of five players still around from Ireland’s victory over England at the 2011 World Cup — another is Kevin O’Brien, who scored a wonderful 113.Lord’s will feel very different from the atmosphere at the World Cup Final as England return to action in a week when Test cricket changes. This match is the first with players wearing names and numbers on their shirts, England’s first against Ireland and the first scheduled over four days in England since 1947. Next week, the World Test Championship begins. England cannot afford for this to be a mere Ashes tune up, with many of their X-factor players resting or injured after the World Cup. With James Anderson out with a calf injury, England have ended up with an oddly-balanced squad of 12, including four specialist batsmen, five all-rounders and four players with more than 55 caps, but seven still in single figures. Only Chris Woakes (26) sits in the middle. There are three uncapped players, and three more who have not played a Test at home.With Anderson out, Mark Wood injured and Jofra Archer somewhere between an injury and a rest (that somewhere, literally, is partying at a festival in Barbados), there is pressure on Stuart Broad to justify his Ashes place. If a bowler feared roundly by Australians with 437 Test wickets — 83 of them on this ground, second only to Anderson — justifying his place sounds remarkable, it is a measure of England’s seam strength. Woakes had a fine World Cup, and the Ashes start at Edgbaston, his home ground, and Lord’s, where he averages 130 with the bat and 10 with the ball. Sam Curran is taking his first-class wickets at 22 this summer. He claimed six against the Australians last week, was man of the series against India last summer, and offers left-arm variety. Joe Root wants to blood Archer in Test match cricket as soon as possible, although that is likelier at Lord’s than Edgbaston. Wood, man of the match in England’s last Test, against West Indies in February, thinks he will be back for the two Tests in September. And that is before we get to Olly Stone or Lewis Gregory, the new boys. As he proved on his ODI debut in Sri Lanka in October, Stone has pace to burn, while Rory Burns was glowing in his praise of Somerset’s Gregory yesterday. Jack Leach could yet play ahead of one of them. Burns said: “I’ve played against Lewis for quite a while now. His batting has really come on but his bowling is exceptional. He’s a lively pace and swings it both ways, so is handy.”The other Test debutant is Jason Roy, who arrives brimming with confidence and, in Burns, a familiar face beside him. The pair have rarely opened together, but have been mates since childhood. Burns believes it will all be about “mindset” for his old mate. The sight of England’s coaches Paul Collingwood and Jonathan Trott, two doughty Test batsmen, working hard with Roy yesterday was encouraging.“I think you’d be hard pushed to find one [a more talented batsmen],” said Burns. “Even growing up as a kid you saw Jason do things other kids couldn’t. Over the last couple of years you’ve seen him rein it in, understand his game a bit more and piece it all together. Hopefully he can keep doing that and translate his white-ball form into red ball.”If he can, this match will be a lot of fun — but with the Irish coming to Lord’s we know it will be anyway.](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/F5r3RHCrc5SOozeMOeLnnQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/evening_standard_239/3bf0217cf65128a4b95cf526cf481415)
![The simplistic view would be to see the four-day Test against Ireland as the calm between two storms for England this summer. The World Cup finished — and in some style, you may remember — nine days ago. The Ashes begin in nine days’ time.But there is too much at stake for that. This is an historic, hard-earned event for Irish cricket. England know all about Ireland, and the perils of underestimating them.Indeed, they nearly started their summer with an ODI defeat to Ireland, who are desperate for their first Test win.Do not expect Ireland to come quietly to Lord’s; they will bring scores of fans to a ground Tim Murtagh and Paul Stirling call home, while Andy Balbirnie used to play for Middlesex, too. Murtagh has 291 of his 800 first-class wickets at Lord’s, and Karl McDermott, the new Irish groundsman, looks likely to give him a pitch with a pleasingly green tinge.Boyd Rankin will not mind bloodying a few English noses after his only Test for them, at Sydney in 2014, went awry. Rankin is one of five players still around from Ireland’s victory over England at the 2011 World Cup — another is Kevin O’Brien, who scored a wonderful 113.Lord’s will feel very different from the atmosphere at the World Cup Final as England return to action in a week when Test cricket changes. This match is the first with players wearing names and numbers on their shirts, England’s first against Ireland and the first scheduled over four days in England since 1947. Next week, the World Test Championship begins. England cannot afford for this to be a mere Ashes tune up, with many of their X-factor players resting or injured after the World Cup. With James Anderson out with a calf injury, England have ended up with an oddly-balanced squad of 12, including four specialist batsmen, five all-rounders and four players with more than 55 caps, but seven still in single figures. Only Chris Woakes (26) sits in the middle. There are three uncapped players, and three more who have not played a Test at home.With Anderson out, Mark Wood injured and Jofra Archer somewhere between an injury and a rest (that somewhere, literally, is partying at a festival in Barbados), there is pressure on Stuart Broad to justify his Ashes place. If a bowler feared roundly by Australians with 437 Test wickets — 83 of them on this ground, second only to Anderson — justifying his place sounds remarkable, it is a measure of England’s seam strength. Woakes had a fine World Cup, and the Ashes start at Edgbaston, his home ground, and Lord’s, where he averages 130 with the bat and 10 with the ball. Sam Curran is taking his first-class wickets at 22 this summer. He claimed six against the Australians last week, was man of the series against India last summer, and offers left-arm variety. Joe Root wants to blood Archer in Test match cricket as soon as possible, although that is likelier at Lord’s than Edgbaston. Wood, man of the match in England’s last Test, against West Indies in February, thinks he will be back for the two Tests in September. And that is before we get to Olly Stone or Lewis Gregory, the new boys. As he proved on his ODI debut in Sri Lanka in October, Stone has pace to burn, while Rory Burns was glowing in his praise of Somerset’s Gregory yesterday. Jack Leach could yet play ahead of one of them. Burns said: “I’ve played against Lewis for quite a while now. His batting has really come on but his bowling is exceptional. He’s a lively pace and swings it both ways, so is handy.”The other Test debutant is Jason Roy, who arrives brimming with confidence and, in Burns, a familiar face beside him. The pair have rarely opened together, but have been mates since childhood. Burns believes it will all be about “mindset” for his old mate. The sight of England’s coaches Paul Collingwood and Jonathan Trott, two doughty Test batsmen, working hard with Roy yesterday was encouraging.“I think you’d be hard pushed to find one [a more talented batsmen],” said Burns. “Even growing up as a kid you saw Jason do things other kids couldn’t. Over the last couple of years you’ve seen him rein it in, understand his game a bit more and piece it all together. Hopefully he can keep doing that and translate his white-ball form into red ball.”If he can, this match will be a lot of fun — but with the Irish coming to Lord’s we know it will be anyway.](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/tPhrcIhScSFROGqiDLtcYw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/evening_standard_239/d7e805a47c915557dbb6c7a113b5cd0d)
Four England players have been named in the ICC’s Cricket World Cup team of the tournament, after Eoin Morgan’s side secured their maiden triumph.
International rookie Jofra Archer, final man of the match Ben Stokes and Test captain Joe Root are included, along with opener Jason Roy, who makes the side despite missing three matches with a hamstring injury.
Archer took 20 wickets and bowled the crucial super over in the final, while Joe Root finished as the top English run scorer on 556.
Stokes’ brilliant 84 not out, which rescued England’s chase in Sunday’s epic final at Lord’s, was his fifth score of 79 or more. Roy scored 443 runs at a strike rate of more than 115, and his return from injury led to a transformation in England’s form.
India’s Rohit Sharma, top scorer at the tournament having become the first man to score five centuries in a single World Cup, partners Roy at the top of the order, with New Zealand’s outstanding captain Kane Williamson, named player of the tournament, at three.
Root is at four, with Shakib Al Hasan, who excelled with 606 runs for Bangladesh, selected at five as the only player to make the team having not reached the knockout stages.
Stokes is the all-rounder at six, with Australia’s wicketkeeper Alex Carey at seven after a breakthrough campaign.
Fellow Aussie Mitchell Starc, who led the wicket standings with 27, joins Archer in the bowling attack, along with India’s Jasprit Bumrah (18) and New Zealand’s Lockie Ferguson (21).
