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Follow UsThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)’s Men’s selection panel on October 2 (Wednesday) named a 14-member squad for the senior men’s team’s white-ball tour of the West Indies.
While Jos Buttler made a return to the English side having missed most of last summer, Jafer Chohan, a leg-break bowler of sub-continental descent, who plays for Yorkshire in England’s domestic cricket, has also earned his maiden call-up for the national team.
Apart from Chohan, John Turner and Dan Mousley are the other uncapped players in the side. However, Mousley had received his maiden call-up during the home series against Australia and Turner toured with the English Team to the Caribbean just ahead of the T20 World Cup.
Chohan is the first graduate of the newly established South Asian Cricket Academy to earn an England call-up.
“An additional two players will join the white-ball squad from the Pakistan Test tour once the third Test begins,” the ECB said in a release.
The tour which consists of three ODIs and five T20Is, will get underway on October 31, just after the end of England’s three-match Test tour of Pakistan, for which the squad has already been named.
All the eight matches of the West Indies tour will be played in Barbados, Saint Lucia and Antigua.
England squad for West Indies tour
Jos Buttler (Lancashire – Captain), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire), Jafer Chohan (Yorkshire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Will Jacks (Surrey), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Dan Mousley (Warwickshire), Jamie Overton (Surrey), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Phil Salt (Lancashire), Reece Topley (Surrey), John Turner (Hampshire).
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