{"id":2719,"date":"2016-10-03T17:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:27:27","slug":"bd-vs-eng-roy-set-for-new-opening-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/03\/bd-vs-eng-roy-set-for-new-opening-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"BD vs Eng: Roy set for new opening partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Roy is little more than a year into his ODI career but he will be the senior opener as England take on Bangladesh this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the absence of Alex Hales, who pulled out of the tour over fears about security, Roy will take to the field alongside a new partner, beginning with England\u2019s first warm-up match in Fatullah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Roy has opened with Hales in 27 of his 29 innings, building an impressive record together since the 2015 World Cup. The hugely impressive but uncapped Ben Duckett has been tipped to take Hales\u2019 place, although England appear to be considering a return to the top of the order for Moeen Ali.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever comes in deserves a go,\u201d Roy said. \u201cThey are going to get a huge opportunity to state their mark on international cricket. Whether it\u2019s Duckett or Moeen, I\u2019ve been batting with a few of the guys, I don\u2019t know yet \u2013 I just get on with it. We get on that well we don\u2019t need to worry.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoining up with the boys now, been away for a couple of weeks, it\u2019s straight back in. We have great team cohesion. I won\u2019t think of myself as the senior partner \u2013 we are all equal, just crack on and maybe try help whoever it is out. If it is the new man Duckett, he might be nervous, but he deserves to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moeen has only opened once in ODIs since the World Cup, when Hales hurt his back in the field against Sri Lanka at The Oval earlier this year. If he is asked to open, that could leave Duckett competing with James Vince for a spot at No. 3.<\/p>\n

Roy is among a handful of batsmen to have scored 1000-plus ODI runs at a 100-plus strike rate and he said that he will try to bat the way he has so far in his short career, in which he has found early success. He said he considers himself far from being the finished product as an international batsman and is focused on developing himself as a consistent match-winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still have lots of work to do, loads more runs, a few more hundreds,\u201d Roy said. \u201cI don\u2019t really settle for mediocrity. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a good thing or not. I want to improve and win more games for England but I\u2019m pretty happy with where my game is. I\u2019ve matured playing in big games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably won\u2019t change my approach mentally, but maybe a couple of things technically. Really it\u2019s all very similar, trying to get the team off to a good start \u2013 the first 15-20 balls are going to be huge, getting myself in. Like I said, we have just had one real net session today so we will assess how the game goes tomorrow and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy said that the hot and humid conditions in Bangladesh \u2013 the temperature was around 33C in Mirpur on Monday, with 75% humidity \u2013 will need some time to get acclimatised, but he hopes to be prepared for the first ODI on Friday. Roy suffered a dizzy spell in a game against Pakistan in August and will know the importance of taking on fluids.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t really think about it too much,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve just got to get on with your job. It can be draining but that\u2019s what training days and practice matches are for, so that when we come to Friday we are ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t realise how much you are sweating and the next minute you can feel a bit weird. Concentration will be key, just keeping yourself ticking over and batting for as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Roy is little more than a year into his ODI career but he will be the senior opener as England take on Bangladesh this month. In the absence of Alex Hales, who pulled out of the tour over fears about security, Roy will take to the field alongside a new partner, beginning with England’s first warm-up match in Fatullah on Tuesday. Roy has opened with Hales in 27 of his 29 innings, building an impressive record together since the 2015 World Cup. The hugely impressive but uncapped Ben Duckett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}