England have announced a pared-down list of central contracts for 2022-23 with only 18 players on the main list, down from 20 last year, and two mainstays of the white-ball side in recent years – Dawid Malan and Jason Roy – among those not on it. The total number of players given any sort of contract is, however, up from 27 to 30.
Roy’s demotion comes after a prolonged spell of poor form that extended across the English summer, during which he averaged 24.20 in ODIs and 19.04 in T20s and the Hundred, down from career averages of 40.34 and 27.97. In T20 appearances for England he scored just 78 runs in six innings.
