World ranking: 5
Match schedule
5 Oct: vs New Zealand, Ahmedabad
10 Oct: vs Bangladesh, Dharamsala
15 Oct: vs Afghanistan, New Delhi
21 Oct: vs South Africa, Mumbai
26 Oct: vs Sri Lanka, Bengaluru
29 Oct: vs India, Lucknow
4 Nov: vs Australia, Ahmedabad
8 Nov: vs Netherlands, Pune
11 Nov: vs Pakistan, Kolkata
Full schedule
Squad
Jos Buttler (c), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes.
Leading run-scorer in squad
Joe Root
6,246 runs
Highest score: 133*
Average: 48.79
Hundreds: 16
Fifties: 36
Leading wicket-taker in squad
Adil Rashid
184 wickets
Best bowling: 5-27
Average: 32.41
World Cup record
1975: Semi-finals
1979: Runners-up
1983: Semi-finals
1987: Runners-up
1992: Runners-up
1996: Quarter-finals
1999: Group stage
2003: Group stage
2007: Super Eights
2011: Quarter-finals
2015: Group stage
2019: Champions
What the captain says
“We’re blessed with so many good cricketers in the white-ball game at the moment but in a World Cup, you can only take 15.” – Jos Buttler on the dilemmas of selecting a squad for the team’s title defence after Jason Roy, with more than 4,000 ODI runs, missed out on selection
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