England Men's selection panel have named a 14-strong squad for the three-match ODI series against South Africa starting in January.
England Men's ODI squad:
Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Captain
Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)
Jofra Archer (Sussex)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Sam Curran (Surrey)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Dawid Malan (Yorkshire)
Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)
Jason Roy (Surrey)
Phil Salt (Lancashire)
Olly Stone (Nottinghamshire)
Reece Topley (Surrey)
David Willey (Northamptonshire)
Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)
Comments
Stokes opting out, Bairstow presumably still injured, Livingstone also injured?, but also no Root, Jordan, Wood, Tom Curran or Hales. And at some stage, surely Zak Crawley will be given a go, seeing that his batting in Tests is basically white ball batting anyway!
Players such as Stokes and Root have probably elected not to go on the South Africa tour because, having been away in Pakistan, they don't want to go there and the IPL given the time spent away from their respective families. The interesting one is Ahmed and this is a message that England do want to stop him getting experience playing against so many good players or from being financially rewarded, especially as he isn't centrally contracted, even if that means missing the first six weeks or so of the CC.
Think I saw yesterday Bairstow isn't recovering as quickly as hoped and could be late March before he's back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/64058504
Good to see Topley back. Didn't affect the end result but he was a massive miss for that world cup squad and really feel for the guy as he deserved his redemption arc from the 2016 world cup and all he has been through with his injuries.
Ben Stokes (Durham) Captain
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Will Jacks (Surrey)
Dan Lawrence (Essex)
Jack Leach (Somerset)
Ollie Pope (Surrey)
Matthew Potts (Durham)
Ollie Robinson (Sussex)
Joe Root (Yorkshire)
Olly Stone (Nottinghamshire)
Sam Curran to the Punjab Kings for £1.9m
Ben Stokes to Chenai Super Kings for £1.7m
This does beg the question as to how much worth as a handcuff an England central contract (typically a ceiling of £700K for all bar the captain) will have even before the franchises get going in the various other T20 comps