{"id":297755,"date":"2023-10-31T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=297755"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:25:20","slug":"dawid-malan-shifts-blame-away-from-england-head-coach-matthew-mott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/%d1%81ricket\/dawid-malan-shifts-blame-away-from-england-head-coach-matthew-mott\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawid Malan shifts blame away from England head coach Matthew Mott"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dawid Malan believes it would be unfair for England\u2019s head coach Matthew Mott to take the blame for a dire World Cup campaign, suggesting the players themselves \u201cneed to take responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n
England arrived in India as reigning champions and among the favourites but have unravelled in dramatic fashion over the past month.<\/p>\n
After six games they sit bottom of the table in 10th place, with a solitary win against fellow strugglers Bangladesh, leaving Mott\u2019s white-ball role under scrutiny.<\/p>\n
Speculation over the Australian\u2019s position increased when Eoin Morgan, the side\u2019s World Cup-winning former captain, claimed the squad seemed \u201cunsettled\u201d and later suggested England \u201ctake a leaf out of Baz\u2019s book\u201d \u2013 a direct reference to Test coach Brendon McCullum.<\/p>\n
Malan, the top run-scorer and solitary centurion in an underperforming lineup, told BBC Sport: \u201cMotty is not the one walking out on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are being given everything we need to perform. The facilities and work, everything is being done as it always has been, we just haven\u2019t been able to find a way to get wins on the board. It has been frustrating from a players\u2019 point of view because we know we\u2019re better than that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not involved in selection or any of those things, so I don\u2019t know how that works or who is in charge of all that, but as players we need to take responsibility when we cross that rope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malan broadened the focus away from Mott\u2019s future, insisting that everyone involved in the campaign would be feeling the same heat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you don\u2019t perform well enough as a team there will be questions asked of certain people, whether that is the players, captain, selectors, coach, whoever it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is always going to be questions asked, that just comes with it. The only way to change that narrative is to put runs on the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the mood is still extremely good in the camp. It still feels like all the boys are together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know people say that a lot when their backs are against the wall but genuinely, we still back each other and we\u2019re still here for each other. We just haven\u2019t been able to put those performances out on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n