LONDON: Aiming to bounce back to form after their disappointing Cricket World Cup 2023 campaign, England have announced a new-look squad for their upcoming white-ball tour of the West Indies in December.
Jos Buttler is set to captain both — ODI and T20 — teams, with only five members from the Cricket World Cup squad in India returning to compete in the ODI series in the Caribbean.
Joe Root, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, David Willey (retired) and Mark Wood are the others from the World Cup squad to miss out.
Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone join the white-ball skipper. Test openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett are also part of the 15-member squad.
Moeen Ali, excluded from the 50-over team for the West Indies series, has been included for the T20Is. Reece Topley, Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid, all part of the World Cup squad but not selected for the West Indies ODIs, will turn up for the T20I leg of the series.
After a breakout home summer in the Test format, Josh Tongue has been included in both T20I and ODI squads, as well as fellow seamer John Turner, who has impressed for Hampshire on the domestic scene, as well as with the Trent Rockets in The Hundred. ICC reports.
Playing three ODIs and five T20Is from 3-21 December, the series provides Buttler’s side with an opportunity to form new long-term plans in the 50-over game, while looking ahead to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 next June to be held in the West Indies and USA. IANS
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