Roy has endured a dismal run this summer making just 51 runs in his past eight one-day global innings at an average of 6.37.
And on the eve of a crunch fixture in the Welsh capital on Wednesday, live on Sky Sports 2 HD from 10am, it is a trough England and captain Eoin Morgan may no longer overlook - even though they won all three of their group stage matches to breeze into the last four.
Despite staunch backing from the team management, especially skipper Eoin Morgan, Roy has struggled to make any notable contribution in his three innings at the Champions Trophy so far, getting out for scores of 1,13 and 4 against Bangladesh, New Zealand and Australia respectively. "Obviously, we won't announce the team until the toss, but there's a chance there could be a change", Morgan said, after Bairstow took a full part in training while Roy had a peripheral role.
"We want to go to London". "We have kept the same policy for two years now".
Roy has scored 68 runs in his last nine ODI innings since making 52 against West Indies in Antigua and did not bat on Tuesday, spending most of the session fetching balls from the boundary, for a considerable time stood alongside coach Trevor Bayliss.
England have previously insisted that players would be allowed to bat themselves back into form.
On the other hand, Bairstow is in good form in the county circuit had scored a career-best 174 off 113 balls for Yorkshire against Durham last month.
"Jonny's qualities are that he's a fantastic batsman", Morgan said.
"I think his best attribute, certainly in white-ball cricket over the a year ago and a half, has been his relentless attitude to score runs regardless of the situation", Morgan said. When you have guys sitting on the sidelines they can get a little bit upset and that can affect their performance when the actual chance comes along, but that doesn't seem to affect Jonny.
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"I'd have no worries if he has to open the batting".
"I was particularly anxious that Roy hadn't fired yet, because I think he's very close to something quite good", he said.
But the South African, who denied using "mind games", was well aware of Bairstow's quality, having seen him score an unbeaten 61 on his Headingley home ground in a four-wicket ODI victory against Pakistan past year.
"So it's important that tomorrow we pick what we feel is our best XI to win the tournament". I suppose they have variation, but certainly, we do have plans against all of them.
Pakistan bowled and fielded tightly to restrict the sluggish hosts who failed to master a lifeless wicket and collapsed from 128 for two in bright and sunny conditions which normally favour batsmen.
Morgan finally ended it by expressing his views on toss for this match and concluded, "I'd rather lose the toss".
In more recent times, he has earned a reputation as England's white-ball supersub - rarely in their first-choice team but never letting them down when needed.
"I'm incredibly proud of how we pulled ourselves off the canvas after India, and I'm incredibly proud of some of the honest discussions we've had". Because it is a used wicket, because it's an early start draws different factors. If the weather's as good as it's supposed to be, yeah, I'm not sure. "We'll have to turn up tomorrow and see how dry the wicket is".
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