#4 Flurry of all-rounders
Much like the West Indies in T20 cricket, England have nurtured and put in place as many as nine men who can bowl and bat in a single lineup. Out of these nine, at least five do that on a regular basis and are genuine all-rounders. The likes of Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Liam Plunkett and David Willey play together most of the time for England and form a formidable pool of genuine all-rounders.
The ODI strike-rates of the batsmen mentioned above are 94.05, 82.32, 97.69, 99.10 and 75.00 respectively. In that very order, their bowling averages are 37.56, 33.70, 42.00, 34.03 and 30.31. And, to clear the air about the sample space that is being taken into consideration, the least number of games that have been played by any individual among these five is 20, played by Willey.
Woakes and Plunkett helped England tie the first ODI against Sri Lanka in 2016, Stokes has been the lynchpin of the side since his Ashes heroics and World T20 blitzkriegs, and Moeen Ali has proved out to be a more than effective partnership breaker in limited-overs cricket. These men have turned England into a team of dangerous all-rounders and are expected to help their side progress in the future as well.
