England white-ball captain Jos Buttler will return to the side for the upcoming tour of the West Indies, the ECB confirmed on October 2. Buttler had sat out the recently concluded home ODI series against Australia with a calf injury, which saw Harry Brook take over the captain’s role. Brook’s first stint as Test captain did not go according to plan as England lost the series 3-2.
Agamuthu was omitted, and in comes leg-spinner Jafer Chohan, called into the England squad for the first time. The 22-year-old has taken 22 wickets in 23 matches. Fast bowler John Turner and all-rounder Dan Mousley are the other uncapped players. Turner had toured the Caribbean last year and has taken 35 List A and 42 T20 wickets. Mousley, a member of the recently concluded ODI series against Australia, scored 1,100 T20 runs and took 50 wickets off 63 matches.
The ECB on Monday announced its 14-member squad for this tour and will add two more players before England’s third Test against Pakistan, which starts on 24th October at Rawalpindi.
The tour will encompass a three-match ODI series with five T20Is. The ODI series will begin on 31st of October, where the first two games will be hosted at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. The games will be taken to Kensington Oval in Barbados. T20I will begin on 9th of November. The Board has also confirmed that first two matches of T20I will also be at Barbados while the remaining three will be staged in St. Lucia.
England squad for West Indies tour: Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Jafer Chohan, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner.
