Coach Matthew Mott does not want to take a risk with Jos Buttler ahead of T20 WC

England whiteball head coach Matthew Mott does not want to take any risks with star batter and whiteball captain Jos Buttler ahead of ICC T20 World Cup in OctoberNovember in Australia this year as he is still battling a calf injuryButtler picked up the injury in England while playing domestic cricket He has not played any international cricket since July when he featured in a T20I against South Africa at Southampton Buttler has missed the first four matches of Englands tour of Pakistan which also consists of seven T20IsMott has said that there is no guarantee that the player will be in action for the remaining three gamesWith regards to Jos he is still a while off He is not a player we want to take a risk on at this stage so close to a T20 World Cup and it was a reasonably significant injury that he had ICC quoted Mott as sayingAlso read Cricket is loading at iconic MCG ahead of IndiaPakistan clash at ICC T20 World Cup 2022He is champing at the bit for a game but we will just try and see how we go Maybe in the last game or two he might be a chance he addedButtlers presence in T20 World Cup will be extremely important for his side considering the fact that he led the runscoring charts for his side and finished as fourth best as a batter in the 2021 edition of the tournament He had scored 269 runs at an average of 8966 with one century and one halfcentury in six innings His best individual score was 101The 32yearold followed it with an otherworldly Indian Premier League 2022 season with finalists Rajasthan Royals in which he scored 863 runs in 17 matches with four centuries and four halfcenturiesEngland will be hoping that their star batter replicates his IPL exploits for the national side as well at the biggest stage in T20I cricketWhile he may not be a part of Englands final three matches against Pakistan England still has four warmup matches in Australia ahead of their World Cup campaign and their skipper could potentially be a part of itEngland is currently 22 in the series against Pakistan having lost the previous match by three runs in a thrillerMott feels that such highpressure games against a quality opposition will help the team in the long termWe could not ask for better preparation than games like tonight Sunday against Pakistan where it is all on the line with a couple of overs to go and players are under pressure he saidTo play in highpressure situations in front of a big crowd that was right into the game is greatYes we would love to have won but I think when you head into a World Cup you want to play against good opposition in tough games and it has been every bit of that he concluded ANIEngland will start off their T20 World Cup campaign against Afghanistan on October 22 They are placed in Group 1 along with Afghanistan Australia New Zealand and two qualifying teams from Round 1 But before that they will be touring Australia for three T20Is from October 9 onwardsEnglands previous World Cup campaign ended in a semifinal loss to New Zealand who eventually ended up as runnersupEngland ICC Mens T20 World Cup Squad Jos Buttler Lancashire Captain Moeen Ali Worcestershire Harry Brook Yorkshire Sam Curran Surrey Alex Hales Nottinghamshire Chris Jordan Surrey Liam Livingstone Lancashire Dawid Malan Yorkshire Adil Rashid Yorkshire Phil Salt Lancashire Ben Stokes Durham Reece Topley Surrey David Willey Yorkshire Chris Woakes WarwickshireThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever