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New Delhi, Feb 15: Former England cricketer Mark Butcher believes the Jos Buttler-led side just don’t have enough experience of playing 50-over matches and be termed as serious contenders to win the upcoming Champions Trophy, starting from February 19.
“The first thing that sprung to my mind during the first two ODIs was just how naive most of our cricket is in the 50-over format. I thought ‘why might that be?’. It’s because we don’t play any. There is a world of difference in terms of the tempo that the game needs to continuously be played at.”“I don’t mean that the tempo is a rigid graph that only goes up, the tempo needs to fluctuate in 50-over cricket in a way that it doesn’t need to in 20-over cricket. ,” said Butcher on the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast. (IANS)
