After a surprising Cricket World Cup, it’s out with the outdated and in with the brand new for England within the West Indies.
Simply six gamers that had been a part of the group-stage exit in India are within the squad for the three-match one-day worldwide collection within the Caribbean, with skipper Jos Buttler joined by Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Harry Brook, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse.
Probabilities may very well be awarded to the uncapped John Turner in addition to Ollie Pope, with the latter in line for his first worldwide white-ball look after 38 Check matches for his nation.
England in West Indies, December 2023 (all instances UK)
1st ODI: Sunday December 3 – Antigua (1.30pm)
2nd ODI: Wednesday December 6 – Antigua (5.30pm)
third ODI: Saturday December 9 – Barbados (5.30pm)
1st T20I: Tuesday December 12 – Barbados (10pm)
2nd T20I: Thursday December 14 – Grenada (5.30pm)
third T20I: Saturday December 16 – Grenada (5.30pm)
4th T20I: Tuesday December 19 – Trinidad and Tobago (8pm)
fifth T20I:Thursday December 21 – Trinidad and Tobago (8pm)
Teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed, left-arm spinner Tom Hartley, swashbuckling batter Will Jacks and Check opener Zak Crawley must also add to their single-figure variety of limited-overs caps.
England ODI squad for West Indies collection
Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Phil Salt, John Turner
The T20 squad contains a shade extra expertise with the short-form World Cup in West Indies and USA subsequent summer season firmly in thoughts.
Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Tymal Mills and Reece Topley are among the older heads within the group for that five-match collection.
England T20I squad for West Indies collection
Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Tymal Mills, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner, Chris Woakes
However listed below are among the contemporary names – and one specific innovation – to look out for over the approaching weeks…
Ollie Pope
Pope had grow to be a daily in England’s Check group at No 3 earlier than a dislocated shoulder ended his Ashes marketing campaign early and he sat out the ultimate three video games of that drawn collection.
The Surrey batter performed the newest of his 38 Checklist A video games over two years in the past and has not featured in any white-ball cricket since turning out for Welsh Fireplace within the 2022 version of The Hundred.
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Ollie Pope has been referred to as into England’s one-day worldwide squad for the primary time
Nonetheless, he confirmed whereas cracking a 207-ball double ton in opposition to Eire this summer season – the quickest 200 in a Check in England – that he’s no slouch and he may conceivably be a part of Crawley and Ben Duckett within the ODI high three, simply as he does in red-ball cricket.
John Turner
Johannesburg-born Turner earned a maiden England call-up for the T20I collection in opposition to New Zealand this summer season, just for a facet damage sustained taking part in for Trent Rockets in The Hundred to drive him out.
The 22-year-old – who qualifies for England by means of a Zambian mom born to English mother and father – is again now, although, for each T20 and ODI cricket.
I am not essentially a conventional English bowler that is going to attempt to swing it away and nick you off. I am simply going to try to hit a tough size, be constant there and bowl as quick as I can.
England new boy John Turner
Turner’s rise has been speedy.
He solely made his T20 debut for Hampshire in June however may now make his England bow in December after a whirlwind few months, throughout which he picked up 21 wicket in 11 Vitality Blast video games and cleaned up Jonny Bairstow in The Hundred for his first dismissal in that format.
The paceman’s means to bowl over 90mph has put him on the radar with fast bowling seen as key in the best way England need to assemble their assault going ahead.
It’s why Atkinson is within the squad and why Josh Tongue was earlier than an premature damage dominated him out of the tour and denied him a white-ball debut, in the intervening time not less than.
Fringe gamers
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Teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed is in a much-changed 50-over get together after the poor World Cup marketing campaign
With Ben Stokes going beneath the knife to repair his longstanding left knee challenge and Joe Root, Mark Wooden and Bairstow rested forward of the five-Check collection in India early subsequent 12 months, quite a lot of youthful and fringe gamers can stake a declare as England construct for the 2025 Champions Trophy and 2027 World Cup.
Crawley captained his nation for the ODIs in opposition to Eire in September and appears a long-term prospect on the high of the order, whereas Ahmed seems the long-term successor to Rashid as England’s white-ball leg spinner and in addition affords lower-order batting.
The opposite frontline spinner within the ODI group is left-armer Hartley, the 6ft 4in Lancashire participant who made two appearances in opposition to Eire just a few months again and whose top and fast bowling tempo have him earmarked for the upcoming Check journey to India.
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Try the perfect bits from Phil Salt’s 61 from simply 27 deliveries in opposition to Eire this summer season
Phil Salt has already performed 32 white-ball matches for England – 16 ODIs and as many T20Is – with 4 scores of fifty-plus together with a better of 122 in opposition to Netherlands and will press his claims up high with Dawid Malan dropped and Bairstow given a breather, though Jacks is one other contender to open.
Jacks – one in every of two males, alongside Will Smeed, to attain 100 in The Hundred – struck 94 within the Eire collection.
Duckett is a batting possibility, too, capable of function on the high of the order or within the center. The Nottinghamshire man, the only real left-hander among the many out-and-out batters with Malan axed and Stokes unavailable, scored 107 in his final ODI outing, in opposition to Eire.
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Watch highlights from Ben Duckett’s maiden ODI hundred, which he scored in opposition to Eire in September
Cease clock
The West Indies vs England ODI collection would be the first to make use of the cease clock that’s being trialled by the ICC in worldwide limited-overs video games between December 2023 and April 2024.
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A cease clock will likely be used to make sure the bowling facet doesn’t take too lengthy between overs
Fielding groups will likely be required to start a brand new over inside 60 seconds of the earlier one ending, with a five-run penalty imposed in the event that they fail 3 times to start a brand new over in beneath a minute.
Observe England’s white-ball tour of West Indies with reside blogs and reviews throughout skysports.com and the Sky Sports activities App. The opening ODl is in Antigua on Sunday with the primary ball at 1.30pm.