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CWC 2019: 3 players who were unlucky to miss the England squad

Alex Hales' axing from the England squad did hit his team-mates really hard.
Alex Hales' axing from the England squad did hit his team-mates really hard.

The hosts for the Cricket World Cup 2019, England announced their preliminary 15-man squad for the World Cup on April 17th. The team, however, decided to keep the spots in the squad open and stated that the squad was subject to change after the end of the ODI series against Pakistan when young gun Jofra Archer made his debut.

There were a couple of changes to the squad and few players might consider themselves unlucky to be excluded from the team.

Here is England's squad for the World Cup:

England Squad for the World Cup: Eoin Morgan(C), Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Liam Plunkett, Jofra Archer, Liam Dawson, James Vince, Tom Curran.

England played their first warm-up game against Australia on May 25th losing to them by 12 runs and are testing out the strength of their squad.

While the picks are pretty straight-forward, there are a few players who have been unlucky to miss out from this squad. While the selections are all quality players, there have been a few players who didn't deserve to be excluded.

#3 Alex Hales

Alex Hales' dropping is bad news for both him and the team.
Alex Hales' dropping is bad news for both him and the team.

Alex Hales was one of the certainties in the England side but both the team and him fell out after he was caught for recreational drug use and was subsequently dropped from the team in the Pakistan series as well as the World Cup. The team has expressed their disappointment over the happenings as Hales is making a comeback through the domestic circuit.

While this is Hales' fault and nobody else's, he was on the verge of playing a major role in the world's most prestigious cricketing tournament and was a key player to the side.

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