CRICKET WORLD CUP FACTFILE ON ENGLAND:
WORLD RANKING
5
MATCH SCHEDULE (GMT) -
Oct 05: v New Zealand at Ahmedabad (0830)
Oct 10: v Bangladesh at Dharamsala (0500)
Oct 15: v Afghanistan at New Delhi (0830)
Oct 21: v South Africa at Mumbai (0830)
Oct 26: v Sri Lanka at Bengaluru (0830)
Oct 29: v India at Lucknow (0830)
Nov 04: v Australia at Ahmedabad (0830)
Nov 08: v Netherlands at Pune (0830)
Nov 11: v Pakistan at Kolkata (0830)
SQUAD
Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes.
LEADING RUN-SCORER IN SQUAD
Joe Root: 6246 runs; highest score 133 not out; average 48.79; Hundreds 16; Fifties 36
LEADING WICKET-TAKER IN SQUAD
Adil Rashid: 184 wickets; best bowling 5-27; average 32.41
PREVIOUS WORLD CUP APPEARANCES
1975: Semifinals
1979: Runners-up
1983: Semifinals
1987: Runners-up
1992: Runners-up
1996: Quarterfinals
1999: Group stage
2003: Group stage
2007: Super Eights
2011: Quarterfinals
2015: Group stage
2019: Champions
WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAYS
"We're blessed with so many good cricketers in the white-ball game at the moment but in a World Cup, you can only take 15."
Jos Buttler on the dilemmas of selecting a squad for the team's title defence after Jason Roy, with more than 4000 ODI runs, missed out on selection.
