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England's Jonny Bairstow desperate to enjoy TWO World Cup Final wins this year


Jonny Bairstow has revealed his hopes that England can complete a cricket and rugby double when it comes to World Cup glory this year.

And he has compared the revolution undertaken by Aussie Trevor Bayliss with the cricket team to the process that fellow Aussie Eddie Jones has taken the English rugby union team on.

Both have realistic chances of lifting the ultimate prize in their sports for one of their homeland’s oldest rivals — and nothing would give Bairstow more joy.

“With the Rugby World Cup coming up at the end of the summer, it is a huge year,” he said. “The way the union side has been playing over a period of time under Eddie Jones, He’s been scrutinised along the way but the ethos and the work ethic he has instilled into his players is huge to give them a shot at winning the next World Cup.

 

Big-hitter Bairstow is a key part of England’s plan to win this World Cup on home soil

“The players have bought into the style that he’s wanted them to play in much the same way that we have bought into the way Eoin and Trev wanted this side to play many years ago. You can only hope that come the end of October that they have won their World Cup as well.”

Bairstow  was a promising schoolboy rugby player and remains a keen fan of both its league and union versions. He was instrumental in getting dual-code rugby international Sam Burgess to present Joe Root with his 100th ODI cap in Sydney last year.

It is an escape from the cricket bubble for the Yorkshireman and in a side full of different characters from different backgrounds, he admits others are showing some interest.

It is what you’d expect from a team as tightly knit as this England one day side is, and Bairstow says it all boils down to one word: Respect.

 

Schoolboy rugby player Bairstow hopes Eddie Jones’ men shine in their autumn World Cup

“Everyone has got respect for everyone else in the squad,” he added. “We’re a tightly knit group and we’re all interested in what other people do. We’re all different and we all have our own way of expressing ourselves on and off the field, but we are part of the same team with the same goals.”

The best expression fans want to see from Bairstow this summer is a stackful of runs and he admitted both he and fellow opener Jason Roy are on the hunt for England’s first ODI double hundred.

He said: “I don’t know who is going to get a double hundred first but we’re both going to be gunning for it, I know that. There has obviously never been and Englishman to do it, but hopefully this year is the year that one of us can go out and achieve that feat, but there is a lot of hard work that goes into it.”

* ECB has launched #ExpressYourself — a bold campaign that aims to connect fans with the team and give them a unique insight into how the players express themselves on and off the pitch.

For more information, go to https://www.ecb.co.uk/

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