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Now make him captain: why Sam Curran should be England’s white-ball leader

Mark Baldwin makes the case for the Surrey all-rounder to be in charge in limited-overs internationals…  

19.02.26, 17:00 Updated 24.02.26, 18:20 4 Minute Read

Mark Baldwin

Mark Baldwin

Brendon McCullum, perhaps strangely, ignored Sam Curran throughout his first nine months in charge of England’s white-ball teams.

But after the present ICC T20 World Cup – if McCullum is still in the position – he should recognise the way Curran has bounced back from a relatively flat spell in an England limited-overs shirt by making the Surrey all-rounder his captain in both T20 and 50-over internationals.

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