India, May 22 -- England opener Jason Roy, who has not played international cricket since early 2023 after being dropped, has come out in the open and revealed how shocked he was at the treatment he was meted out by the ECB.

Roy won one white-ball ICC tournament with England: the 2019 World Cup. He scored 443 runs at an average of 63.28 in a victorious campaign for his team.

He and Jonny Bairstow opened ferociously for England in many matches before the latter ran into a bad patch and lost his place. It wasn't long after that that he was done away with, too. Of course, a lack of consistency and back issues did play a role.

"When I got dropped before the World Cup [in 2023], it took a huge chunk out of me, mentally. It feels like yester...