Jacob Bethell and Dan Mousley among five uncapped payers in squads for September white-ball games vs Australia but no Jonny Bairstow or Moeen Ali; captain Jos Buttler fit after missing Hundred with injury - watch England vs Australia live on Sky Sports from September 11
Tuesday 27 August 2024 06:49, UK
England have selected uncapped Warwickshire duo Jacob Bethell and Dan Mousley for September's white-ball games against Australia but Moeen Ali and Jonny Bairstow have been left out.
Bethell, 20, a left-handed batter and spin bowler, has been picked for the three-match T20 series and five one-day internationals that follow after scoring 356 runs for Birmingham Bears in the Vitality Blast this season, including a 15-ball fifty against Northamptonshire.
Team-mate Mousley, 23, another left-hander who also offers a slow-bowling option, is included in the T20 squad after amassing 375 runs in Birmingham's run to the Blast quarter-finals.
Leicestershire left-arm seamer Josh Hull - who was added to England's Test squad on Sunday as a replacement for the injured Mark Wood - and right-arm Hampshire quick John Turner could also make white-ball debuts after being included in both groups, while a fifth uncapped player, Essex batter Jordan Cox, is in the T20 party.
But there is no place in either squad for Bairstow, 34, or Moeen, 37, two stalwarts of the limited-overs side, while T20 specialist Chris Jordan, 35, is overlooked, too.
All three may have played their final internationals as England revamp their team after losing their 50-over and T20 World Cup titles in the last year, with Bairstow's white-ball omission coming after he was dropped from Test cricket this summer.
Marcus Trescothick will lead England on an interim basis against Australia after white-ball head coach Matthew Mott left his role following the team's semi-final exit at June's T20 World Cup.
Durham seamer Brydon Carse has been named in both the T20 and 50-over groups after serving a betting ban, while fit-again Lancashire paceman Saqib Mahmood has earned a recall to the T20 squad, fresh from taking three wickets for Oval Invincibles in the final of The Hundred earlier this month, against Southern Brave.
Jamie Smith, who has struck a century and two fifties since being preferred to Bairstow and Ben Foakes as Test wicketkeeper-batter, has been selected for the ODI leg against Australia.
The first T20, in Southampton on September 11, starts one day after the scheduled conclusion to England's three-Test series against Sri Lanka so the red-ball players - Cox and Hull aside - are not included.
Smith, Harry Brook, Gus Atkinson, Ben Duckett and Matthew Potts will return for the ODI series, which begins at Trent Bridge on September 19 and ends in Bristol on September 29, but Joe Root has been rested from the 50-over fixtures and Chris Woakes omitted.
Captain Jos Buttler is fit after missing The Hundred with a calf injury, while all-rounders Liam Livingstone and Sam Curran are in the T20 squad but not the ODI party.
The next men's global white-ball event is the 50-over ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan in February and March, with the next T20 World Cup set to be held in India and Sri Lanka in early 2026.
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