England’s Jason Roy admits he was emotional after hundred towards South Africa: Been a turbulent few months

England batter Jason Roy stated he was overcome a bit by feelings after breaking his lean run in worldwide profession with 100 towards South Africa on Friday within the first ODI. Roy scored a 91-ball 113 towards the Proteas in a shedding trigger.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 28, 2023 18:46 IST

Roy scored a 91-ball 113 towards South Africa within the first ODI (Courtesy: AP)

By India Today Web Desk: England batter Jason Roy admitted that he was a bit overcome by feelings after scoring a superb hundred towards South Africa on Friday within the first ODI.

Roy had been going via a lean patch in his profession which noticed him being dropped from England’s T20 World Cup successful squad final yr. However, he returned to kind by hitting a 91-ball 113 in Bloemfontein. The valiant effort went in useless as England capitulated and ended up shedding the match by 27 runs as they went from 146 for no loss to 271 all out.

Despite the loss, the England batter stated, as quoted by Cricket365, that he was comfortable to attain the hundred on Friday and stated he was a bit overcome by feelings on the day and it had been a turbulent few months.

“I’m feeling very good, I actually didn’t sleep that well – I had about five hours’ sleep, I was a bit overcome with a few emotions and stuff like that, it’s been a turbulent few months,” he stated.

“I woke up really well, though, it was the best five hours’ sleep I’ve had.”

“It’s been a horrible year. (The celebration) was a little bit of anger around it all just because I set everything to the back of my mind and locked a few things away in a cupboard and went out and played the way I have played throughout my career.”

“I was frustrated I hadn’t got to that mindset earlier but it was a very nice feeling.”

Roy admitted that he wasn’t getting carried away by his innings towards South Africa.

“Absolutely not, I don’t see it that way,” he stated. “I’ve played a lot of games in my career, been around for a while now and even after a bad year you can get forgotten quite quickly.

“It’s a case of keeping pushing, keeping this environment going in this culture we have in the team because it’s a huge year ahead for us in 50-over cricket.”

Roy stated he’s hoping to assist England retain their ODI World Cup crown in India later this yr.

“I’ve got to keep scoring runs and just building this team to the place where we were at back in 2019,” stated Roy.

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Jan 28, 2023