Jason Roy hit a bad patch of form at the worst time: England director Rob Key

England mens cricket managing director Rob Key revealed the selectors spent the most time on deciding to omit Jason Roy from the England squad for Mens T20 World Cup saying that the righthanded opener hit a bad patch of form at the worst timeOn Friday Roy was left out of Englands Mens T20 World Cup squad and from seven T20Is tour of Pakistan as well as three T20Is trip to Australia before the mega event Roy has struggled to get runs in Englands home summer scoring just 78 runs in six T20Is averaging 1266Roy had been an integral part of Englands unit in whiteball cricket since 2015 and played a good role in the side winning the 2019 ODI World Cup at home His The Hundred campaign in 2022 for the Oval Invincibles was horrendous with three ducks in four innings and his overall numbers in the competition standing at 51 runs in six inningsThat Roy selection was the one we spent the most time on trying to work out the best thing to do Fiddly selection as much for logistics as anyone else We worked out the World Cup 11 and squad for that and worked back from there We thought about the best opening pair for the World Cup Its unfortunate timing for Jason Roy as much as anything else Hes hit a bad patch of form at the worst time said Key after the squad announcementWith Roy now dropped Key said Jonny Bairstow will open the batting alongside captain Jos Buttler Bairstow had been batting in Englands middleorder in T20Is due to his ability to hit well against the spinners He will now take up the role in which he excels well for the ODI sideThe latest we could announce the World Cup squad was the 16th So it wasnt like we could use Pakistan Wed be taking a gamble on him finding form in that time So we felt with the abundance of openers we had and we felt Jonny Bairstow is one of the best openers in T20 cricket in the world hes done it in the IPL but been very good in the middle order as well we felt the best combination at this time was Jonny and Jos and we worked back from that point added KeyKey further revealed that Roy was informed of his exclusion from Mens T20 World Cup squad apart from matches against Pakistan and Australia by Buttler It was followed by Key as well as whiteball coach Matthew Mott speaking to himAlso Read India allrounder Jayant Yadav inks three match deal with WarwickshireHe was obviously very disappointed Gutted was the phrase he used He wanted to make sure this wasnt the end You always feel these are long meaningful chats when you speak to players about this stuff Actually Jos was the one who rang him Jos wanted to be the one to tell himThey obviously have a relationship and he felt he was the right person to tell him Myself and Matthew Mott have spoken to him since Hes obviously very disappointed and wants to have a chance to show hes not finished in international cricket which I dont think he isI still think hes a fantastic player but the timing has been awful for him to lose form at that time To not have a huge amount of time to stop reset and then find it again Certainly in that whiteball series against South Africa the close nature of every game means once you got on a roll in one way its very hard to get out ofKey was sure that not being in the T20 World Cup doesnt mark the end of Roy as a T20I opener and backed him to find form to get back into the setup The game is about confidence as much as anything else If he finds that again he too is one of the best openers around when hes at the top of his gameI dont see it by any stretch that his T20 career is over Its just a case of him finding form and Im sure he will have plenty of opportunities in the abundance of T20 cricket that there is around the world to find that form againI certainly dont think the age that he is that this is the end of Jason Roy I would argue that the 50over format is his strongest suit and we still see him as very much part of this setup Given his whiteball summer and then the Hundred we feel its too much of a gamble to continue going into Pakistan and straight into AustraliaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever