England have confirmed their staff for the T20 Worldwide in opposition to India, which begins on Wednesday at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Lancashire’s Phil Salt will hold wicket and open the batting with Nottinghamshire’s Ben Duckett.
Captain Jos Buttler will bat at three and tempo bowlers Jofra Archer and Mark Wooden are named within the facet.
The staff is as follows:
1. Ben Duckett
2. Phil Salt (WK)
3. Jos Buttler (C)
4. Harry Brook
5. Liam Livingstone
6. Jacob Bethell
7. Jamie Overton
8. Gus Atkinson
9. Jofra Archer
10. Adil Rashid
11. Mark Wooden
Check head coach Brendon McCullum is seeking to rejuvenate England’s limited-overs groups after their give up of each World Cup crowns, with captain Buttler now resuming his function as a specialist batter at quantity three.
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England head coach Brendon McCullum confirms Jos Buttler won’t hold within the sequence in India
“The one thing he [Buttler] won’t be doing in this series is keeping wicket, he’s going to captain from the field,” former New Zealand captain McCullum instructed a press convention on Monday.
“That’s a really positive thing for us because it gives Jos the opportunity to have the last say with the bowler and to have that relationship build at that last second instead of being 22 yards away.
“We have a extremely good squad; we have a lot of flexibility throughout the group. We have heaps of choices and it is about piecing all of it collectively which provides us the very best likelihood.”
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