Matthew Mott has insisted England can still win the Cricket World Cup but admits his side will need to win every game
Mott says tournament not over for out-of-sorts EnglandMatthew Mott has called for an increase in the number of white-ball international fixtures, citing England’s lack of recent action as a key factor behind their poor performances at the World Cup. But although his team have lost three of their first four games the Australian insisted: “I still think we can win this tournament.”
“But at the end of the day I understand the pressure administrators are under to fit everything in, and it’s an incredibly packed schedule. I’m not an administrator, I’m a coach, and it does no good to get outside my lane ropes, to think about things I can’t control.” “It’s very clear what we have to do now: we need to win every single game,” he said. “The simple fact is we’re not playing well our tournament’s far from over.
But with “a lot of heads down in the dressing room”, there will be no riot acts read under Mott’s watch. “I learned very quickly as a coach that you can only give a bollocking when the effort’s not there,” he said.
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