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Mature Roy no longer the talented chancer

by
The Cricket Paper Team
24 May 2019

Derek Pringle discusses the improvements made in Jason Roy’s game and casts an admiring eye at the power the batsman can generate

On the attack: Jason Roy will be crucial to England in this summer’s World Cup
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Listening the other day to someone picking their best ever England World Cup team, I was interested to hear them mulling over the opening batsmen. Marcus Trescothick, Graham Gooch, Nick Knight and Jonny Bairstow were all presented for consideration but not Jason Roy, surely an oversight given his imperious strokes and high octane approach to gett...