England squad for West Indies: Dawid Malan dropped as just six World Cup players included

Simply six gamers from England’s ODI World Cup have saved their locations in a new-look squad for his or her white-ball tour of West Indies.

The tour, which features a three-match ODI sequence (beginning December 3) and a five-match T20 sequence (starting December 12), will probably be England’s first motion since their unimpressive World Cup title defence in India.

Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and Mark Wooden have been rested forward of January’s Check sequence in India and Check captain Ben Stokes is heading straight for an operation on his long-term knee harm.

However the omissions of Dawid Malan, Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes from the 50-over squad might show to be extra closing.

Moeen and Woakes, along with Adil Rashid, are retained for the T20 leg, suggesting they nonetheless have an opportunity of creating subsequent summer time’s short-form World Cup to be held within the Caribbean and USA, however Malan has been reduce from each codecs.

Regardless of being England’s prime run-scorer over the previous couple of weeks, ending precisely 100 away from his nearest challenger, at 36, he appears to have run out of street.

Captain Jos Buttler stays in cost and is joined by Gus Atkinson, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone.

Three uncapped gamers make the reduce in ODI facet with Check vice-captain Ollie Pope becoming a member of seamers John Turner and Josh Tongue. The tempo pair additionally characteristic within the 20-over squad.

Phil Salt, Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed may even make the complete journey, indicating they’re all seen as necessary elements of England’s white-ball rebuild.

Whereas Ahmed was handed a two-year central contract final month, it’s notable that neither Jacks nor Salt had been among the many 29 names who did obtain offers.

Malan, who seems to have performed his closing limited-overs worldwide, was signed up for a yr.

ODI squad: 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, Phil Salt, Josh Tongue, John Turner.

T20I squad: 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, Josh Tongue, Reece Topley, John Turner, Chris Woakes.

Atherton: England don’t want an entire reset

Former England captain Michael Atherton had mentioned there isn’t any want for a whole reset of the England one-day cricket set-up, regardless of the holders being knocked out of the World Cup with a whimper.

“There undoubtedly must be some contemporary blood in there,” he advised Sky Sports activities after it was confirmed England will end seventh within the group of 10 on the World Cup, having received solely three matches all event.

“You must have half an eye fixed on the Champions Trophy in 2025 and the subsequent World Cup in 2027.

“However I do not imagine in simply ripping every part up. It is not a lot of a template that I’ve seen achieve success prior to now when it comes to regeneration. I feel you do regenerate, however you do it well and properly and there are nonetheless some excellent cricketers in that dressing room by any estimation, and they’d deserve their place in any England 50-over facet.

“So it isn’t an entire reset, but it surely’s only a gradual regeneration and introduction of contemporary blood. And let’s not neglect a few of the high quality in England’s home cricket when it comes to white-ball cricketers which might be out there may be wonderful. You consider the people who find themselves not right here, folks like Ben Duckett, folks like Will Jacks, these sorts of men, so there’s lots to come back in.

“England’s common age is 31. You do not go over the hill in six or seven weeks. I really took somewhat little bit of time simply to match age profiles with a few of the different prime groups. India’s common age is 31, New Zealand’s common age is 31, Australia’s common age is 31. England have gotten 4 gamers underneath 30 of their squad, New Zealand have solely acquired three. New Zealand, like England, have gotten some veterans of three World Cups of their mid-30s.”