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If the housekeeper Admits he feels a bit guilty about England’s automatic qualification for the 2027 World Cup.
terrible run foreign direct investment form raises embarrassing prospect England Must pass the qualifying round to participate in South AfricaZimbabwe and Namibia.
ahead of Saturday’s series-tying victory Sri LankaEngland have lost 15 of their previous 20 ODIs and have lost 11 consecutive away games since winning in the West Indies in November 2024.
“It’s actually not a very good feeling that we need to win X number of games to qualify for the World Cup,” former white-ball captain Buttler said on his Love of Cricket podcast.
“I’m sure there are permutations and someone can tell us, but I don’t know what they are.
“Obviously I feel a bit guilty about it because when we were captains for a while we didn’t get the results we wanted to end up in where we are now.
“We just have to focus on winning cricket matches, winning series, improving our rankings, that’s what we want to achieve with the team and making sure we automatically qualify for the World Cup.”
Co-hosts South Africa and Zimbabwe will qualify directly, with the top eight teams in the world automatically joining by March 2027.
England are eighth in these rankings, behind Afghanistan.
Their series decider in Sri Lanka starts at 1430 local time (0900 GMT) on Tuesday.