Rehan Ahmed and Jordan Cox picked for England’s WI tour for the white-ball series that will begin next Thursday.
Rehan Ahmed and Jordan Cox are the new entrants to England’s white-ball side that will travel to the Caribbean.
Before the white-ball team leaves for Antigua on Monday, Cox is scheduled to return home following the first day of the series final in Rawalpindi. Both players are with England’s Test team in Pakistan. Rehan is expected to arrive late in the Caribbean. He is not expected to play in Thursday’s first ODI against the West Indies. This despite being named in England’s XI for the third Test.
During England’s visit to New Zealand, which comes just after the West Indies tour and may depart the Caribbean early, Cox, the Essex wicketkeeper-batter, is expected to make his Test debut. He will get to New Zealand in time for England’s warm-up game in Queenstown on the weekend of November 23 before the opening Test on November 27, but he is probably going to miss the five-match T20I series.
Jos Buttler’s recent setback in his recovery has ruled him out of the 50-over phase of the trip. Ths means Cox, who made his international debut in England’s T20I series against Australia, is certain to earn his first ODI cap in the Caribbean. At some point during the New Zealand series. he will also fill in as England’s keeper. Jamie Smith is expected to miss at least one Test match and maybe all three due to paternity leave.
Rehan might not be taken into consideration until the Twenty20 Internationals. And his participation in the third Test in Pakistan is going to disqualify him from at least the first ODI. Along with the uncapped Yorkshire leggie Jafer Chohan and Adil Rashid, he is one of three wristspinners in the team.
When England revealed their squads, they stated that they always intended to bring Cox and Rehan to the Caribbean. It was also said that two Test players would be added. With Buttler missing that portion of the tour. ECB announced this week that Liam Livingstone will captain them in their three ODIs in the Caribbean. They also recruited Michael Pepper of Essex to their squads as a stand-in.
England ODI and T20I squads: Jos Buttler (captain, T20Is only), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Jafer Chohan, Jordan Cox, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone (ODI captain), Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner.