by Marcus Trescothick has said the current domestic structure is “not helping” the new generation of English white-ball cricketers.
On Wednesday at Kensington Oval in Barbados, England suffered a third consecutive one-day defeat and a 13th ODI defeat in 20 matches, as West Indies beat them by eight wickets.
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England’s Caribbean team is very inexperienced with several Test players missing due to a busy schedule, meaning Jordan Cox has batted at number 3, despite having only played four matches. 50 over his career before his international call-up, while Dan Mousley, 23. , had not played a List A match for more than three years.
The County One-Day Cup overlaps with the Hundred, meaning England’s best white-ball players do not have domestic 50-over cricket available to them to compete in.
“It doesn’t help because you’re not getting the volume of games that the players would like to have and not really developing an understanding of the game,” said Trescothick, the interim white-ball head coach of the England.
“But you kind of know why it is that way and that’s the structure we’re given to play and we’re going to tackle it and make it work as much as possible.
“I’m not going to speak against any other competition,” Trescothick said, referring to the One-Day Cup clash with the Hundred. “But of course we would want more 50-over cricket one way or another.”
This week, Phil Salt referenced his desire for more home day opportunities, having not played a county one-day match since 2019.
“I don’t think there are many players in this team that you could go through and say, ‘Oh, they’re doing a great job at the moment,'” Salt told TalkSport ahead of the third ODI, where he made 74. “That’s the reality because we haven’t played a lot of 50-over cricket. I would love a domestic 50-over competition. I would love to have the opportunity to play in that so that you can have the rhythm and it’s not always stop-start.
“I don’t think there are many people who can just come in and do it after not playing for a while. I know I haven’t had the most success in 50-over cricket and haven’t really done myself justice, but the more opportunities I get to play it, the better off I’ll be at it. That’s the main thing.
Adding one-day opportunities for England players over the summer would require a major restructuring of the calendar, with one option being to move the 50-over competition to the start of the season in April.
“It’s definitely a challenge,” Trescothick said. “We know how important Test cricket is in England and obviously having the domestic T20 competition and the Hundred is vitally important to our game. How do we achieve that balance? It’s up to the higher powers to look into this, but it’s not going to be easy.
“There’s not a lot of experience in this team at the moment. Of course there isn’t. But part of the reason we brought these kids in was to give them the experience. It won’t always be easy to integrate games into it. There isn’t a huge amount to play at home, and most of the white-ball cricket matches currently played around the world are T20. So it’s a challenge, and we’re aware of that.
