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Mark Butcher criticizes Jos Buttler-led England males’s cricket crew for his or her ‘conceitedness,’ saying it makes everybody love seeing them lose. England exited the 2025 Champions Trophy early.
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Former England worldwide Mark Butcher believes the Jos Buttler-led males’s aspect’s ‘conceitedness’ makes ‘everyone’ love seeing them lose. He stated individuals can’t stand this England crew as a result of they don’t give 50-over cricket sufficient time and nonetheless go to ICC competitions feeling they need to win.
England suffered an early exit from the 2025 Champions Trophy after dropping their first two group-stage matches to Australia and Afghanistan. Between the 2023 World Cup and this match (the place they exited within the group stage, too), they’d performed simply 14 ODIs, profitable solely 4.
Their most up-to-date end result within the leadup to the match was a 3-0 collection defeat in India. In the midst of that collection, England opener Ben Duckett stated his crew didn’t care about dropping the bilateral as a result of their focus was on the Champions Trophy.
“What I’ll say is that this, I utterly and completely perceive why everyone loves seeing England lose,” Butcher stated on a Wisden podcast. “And the rationale for that is this, and I’ve most likely stated this earlier than lengthy, very long time again – the conceitedness of English cricket to resolve that after you try for all that point to win a 50-over World Cup, after which inside the subsequent breath, you resolve that it’s not essential sufficient to your to your gamers to play.”
England misplaced to Afghanistan by eight runs on the Gadaffi Stadium in Lahore. The stadium had lots of Afghan followers in attendance however even native neutrals have been seen cheering for them over the English.
“The conceitedness in that and the comeuppance that has come round… there’s no marvel … the group there all supporting Afghanistan, whether or not they’re from, whether or not they’re from Afghanistan or Pakistan, or wherever they’re.”
Butcher had flagged a scarcity of ODI expertise inside this England crew even earlier than the Champions Trophy, saying that many of the gamers weren’t used to the tempo of 50-over cricket.
“The very thought that you simply, that you simply assume which you could, you’re ok, principally, to resolve that one format isn’t price your time, however but you continue to really feel as if you’re form of up there and deserving of profitable these main trophies. It’s a part of the rationale why individuals can’t stand us … You go there in all of those competitions with very excessive hopes of profitable and placing your greatest efficiency in and doing your self and your nation proud: what proper do we now have to assume that you simply’re going to be ok to win a 50-over competitors?” Butcher added.
Butcher isn’t the primary English pundit to say that about Buttler and Co. Throughout the India collection, Kevin Pietersen had related feedback about them through the India collection whereas Alex Hartley additionally echoed the emotions lately.