England have named batter Harry Brook on the expense of Jason Roy within the squad for his or her 50-over World Cup title defence.
Brook, who was ignored of England’s provisional World Cup squad, made the minimize within the squad named on Sunday regardless of a string of failures within the latest sequence in opposition to New Zealand.
But Brook made his mark within the Indian Premier League and the Hundred so skipper Jos Buttler has saved religion with the thrilling 24-year-old.
Dawid Malan, who plundered 277 runs in three ODIs in opposition to New Zealand to be named participant of the sequence, additionally made the squad and is a agency favorite to open the batting for England.
With Roy sidelined because of a again harm, Malan opened the batting in opposition to New Zealand and the 36-year-old turned the joint-fastest Englishman to get to 1000 ODI runs, reaching the mark in 21 innings to match Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott.
“We have selected a squad we are confident can go to India and win the World Cup,” England males’s nationwide selector Luke Wright stated in an announcement.
“We are blessed with an incredibly strong group of white-ball players which was underlined by the performances in the series win against a very good New Zealand team.
“The power of the group has meant that we have now needed to make some robust choices on world-class gamers, with Jason Roy lacking out and Harry Brook coming into the squad.”
Roy, who was an integral part of the England side which won the 2019 World Cup, gave up his incremental contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in May to play more franchise cricket.
England allrounder and Test captain Ben Stokes also returns, having reversed his decision to retire from ODIs.
Stokes, who starred in England’s victorious 2019 campaign on home soil, warmed up for the World Cup by smashing 235 runs in three innings against New Zealand.
It included a spectacular knock of 182 off 124 deliveries — England’s highest individual ODI score ever — in the third match earlier this week.
Bowlers Adil Rashid and Mark Wood were injury doubts but both were named in the squad.
England begin their World Cup defence with the first match of the tournament when they take on New Zealand in Ahmedabad on October 5 in a rematch of the 2019 final.
England squad:
Jos Buttler (capt), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
