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Moeen Ali disappointed with "horrible" schedule as England given just 72 hours to celebrate World Cup win


image-lagnhwngMoeen Ali [Source: Associated Press]



Moeen Ali has berated England's playing schedule and called it "horrible". England will only get a total of 72 hours after the T20 World Cup 2022's final. He suggested that the congested schedule may meddle with players' ability to perform their best. 


What Moeen said 


"Having a game in three days' time, it's horrible, but it's better than two days' time. If it had rained on Sunday, it would have been two days [as a reserve day would have been used]. As players we're kind of getting used to it now. But to give 100 per cent all the time is difficult when you're playing every two, three days." 

"It's been happening for a while. Because when we won the World Cup in 2019, we had an Ashes game two weeks later and we had a Test match against Ireland about 10 days later." 

"Those kind of things are a shame. As a group we want to enjoy and celebrate and have that [time] because you put so much into it. It's not just while the tournament is going on, there's the pre-tournament, the build-up and all that."


England's white ball coach agrees with Moeen Ali 


"We've got to enjoy this victory. They don't come around very often so there'll be no disguising the fact that we will enjoy this. We’ll have a good day today and we had a great night last night.

"But come game day, we’ve got to turn up and make sure we put out a great effort. For the white ball team in particular, we get through those three games and then there's a long break. So that'll be the time to properly let the hair down and enjoy it but the schedule is the schedule and we've got to move with it."


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