England announce squads for T20I and ODI series against India

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced the national team squads for the upcoming T20I and ODI series against India. The two teams have currently locked horns in the rescheduled fifth Test that started on Friday (July 1) in Birmingham. This is England’s first white-ball assignment since Eoin Morgan announced his retirement from international cricket. The board also appointed Jos Buttler as England’s ODI and T20I captain on Thursday (June 30), just a day before naming the squads.

The major name missing from both teams is leg-spinner Adil Rashid who has been given permission to miss this series to make The Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca. The three-match T20I series between England and India is set to commence on July 7 while the first of the three One-Day Internationals will be played on July 12.

Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow rested for the T20I series

Interestingly, England have decided to rest Test skipper Ben Stokes and in-form batter Jonny Bairstow for the T20I series. Both of them are in playing in their fourth consecutive Test match with Bairstow also featuring in the Indian Premier League (IPL) prior to that. Richard Gleeson has earned a maiden call-up to the T20I side while Harry Brook is present in both white-ball squads for the upcoming series.

As for India, the visitors have named a different squad for the first T20I resting their Test stars and then a full strength side will face the hosts in the last two T20 Internationals and the following three ODIs.

England’s T20I squad: Jos Buttler (C), Moeen Ali, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Richard Gleeson, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Tymal Mills, Matthew Parkinson, Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, David Willey.

England’s ODI squad: Jos Buttler (C), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Craig Overton, Matthew Parkinson, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey.

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