The England white-ball coach, Matthew Mott, has told the team’s fans not to live in the past and asked for “a little bit of patience and a bit of perspective”. Mott said the squad is “a very different unit” to the side that won the World Cup in 2019 under Eoin Morgan and was narrowly beaten last year in the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup.
England were soundly beaten in the decisive Twenty20 match against South Africa on Sunday and having not lost a home series in the format since 2018 they have lost two in the space of a month. In that time they have also played two three-match one-day international series, losing against India and drawing against the Proteas, leaving Jos Buttler winless in four white-ball series since assuming the captaincy in June.
