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TOI Sports Desk | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

'England don't have enough 50-over experience to be called Champions Trophy contenders'

England will enter the Champions Trophy after being whitewashed 3-0 by India in the one-day international series, which will require Jos Buttler's men to turn the tide around to go all the way in the eight-team International Cricket Council tournament. But former England batter Mark Butcher feels that the squad lacks experience.

"The first thing that sprung to my mind during the first two ODIs (against India) was just how naive most of our cricket is in the 50-over format. I thought 'why might that be?'. It's because we don't play any. There is a world of difference in terms of the tempo that the game needs to continuously be played at," said Butcher on the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast.

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