- Hales has not played for England since failing drug test in 2019
- Captain Morgan says squad is ‘difficult to get back into’
England’s icy stance on Alex Hales may have started to thaw but the message from Eoin Morgan – the only voice that truly counts – is that breaking into his World Cup squad this year will be difficult given the abundance of top-order options.
Morgan has been furnished with his full-strength squad for the five-match Twenty20 series against India that begins in Ahmedabad on Friday, albeit the continued exclusion of Hales – dating back to his positive recreational drugs test on the eve of the 50-over World Cup in 2019 – puts an asterisk against this assertion.
